Singer Darynn Dean teams up with Daniel Hersog for June 25 North Shore Jazz performance

The local trumpeter leads his eponymous Jazz Orchestra in a home-field appearance featuring the rising-star Los Angeles vocalist

Vancouver International Jazz Festival and North Shore Jazz present the Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra featuring Darynn Dean at the BlueShore at CapU on June 25 at 7:30 pm

IF THERE’S SUCH a thing as a “home field advantage” in music like there is in sports—the idea that you tend to play better on your home turf—then expect Daniel Hersog to bring his A game to his upcoming performance as part of North Shore Jazz.

Not only did the local trumpet player and bandleader graduate from Capilano University in 2007, he is also on the faculty of the institution’s jazz studies department. He’ll be on familiar ground, then, when he plays CapU’s BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts with a 17-member big band comprising some of the local scene’s star players, including Brad Turner (trumpet), Steve Kaldestad (saxophone), Bruno Hubert (piano), James Danderfer (saxophone, clarinet) and Bernie Arai (drums).

Jazz Times said Hersog’s writing is “directly in the lineage of great jazz composers like Gil Evans”; he showed a deft hand with arranging some unexpected material on the Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra’s 2023 album Open Spaces (Folk Songs Reimagined), which contained versions of the Tragically Hip’s “Ahead By a Century” and Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.

For the North Shore Jazz concert, Hersog and company will team up with guest vocalist Darynn Dean. The Los Angeles–based Dean has been pegged as one to watch, having studied under Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter and shared stages with Dave Koz and Aaron Parks.

In a live review, Music Connection lauded the “incredible soul flavour” of Dean’s voice while also describing her stage presence as “luminous” and “spellbinding”. This may be an away game for the young singer, but we think she’ll do just fine.

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Singer Darynn Dean teams up with Daniel Hersog for June 25 North Shore Jazz performance

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