Jodi Proznick
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Jodi Proznick is a Canadian
jazz
bassist
born in Vancouver, British Columbia
.
In 1993, Proznick won the General Motors
Award of Excellence as one of the top young musicians in Canada. McGill University awarded Proznick a performance scholarship in 1997 as a member of the prestigious McGill Big Band I. In 1998, she won the IAJE "Sisters in Jazz" competition which brought her to New York to perform with Ingrid Jensen
and to Detroit to open for Geri Allen
. In 2004, The Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded the Galaxie Rising Star of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival
. Jodi was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Specialized Music Sound Recording Grant for her debut release "Foundations." In 2007, the Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded a Canada Council Festival Travel Grant to perform at the Montreal International Jazz Festival as part of the GM Prix De Jazz competition.
In 1998, Jodi obtained her B.Mus. from McGill University
and in 2006, her M.Ed. from Simon Fraser University
.
Since moving back to Vancouver in 2000, Proznick has become a top call bassist. She has played and/or recorded with international stars such as David "Fathead" Newman, Ed Thigpen
, Jeff Hamilton, Charles McPherson, Seamus Blake, George Coleman
, Sheila Jordan
, Mark Murphy
, Eric Alexander, Lewis Nash, Warren Vache, Herlin Riley, Richie Cole, Bobby Shew, Wycliffe Gordon, Ryan Kaisor, Gerald Clayton, Tamir Hendelman, Eddie Henderson
, Eddie Daniels
, David Hazeltine
, George Colligan, Kitty Margolis, Patience Higgins, Jim Rotundi, Houston Pearson, Scott Hamilton, George Robert, Grant Stewart, Ingrid Jensen, Joe Magnarelli, Gary Smulyan, Jim Snidero, Paul Bollenbeck, John Proulx and Canadian stars such as Denzal Sinclaire, Brad Turner
, Phil Dwyer, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon, P.J. Perry, Don Thompson
, Kirk McDonald, Hugh Fraser, Dee Daniels, Laila Biali and many others. A highlight in her career was opening for Oscar Peterson
with the Oliver Gannon Quartet at the Orpheum in the summer of 2004. Jodi was a featured soloist with the violinist Mark Fewer and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
, with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and with Elektra
. She also accompanied Michael Bublé
in the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games.
Proznick was awarded Bassist of the Year at the 2007 and 2008 National Jazz Awards. Her group, the Jodi Proznick Quartet, which features pianist Tilden Webb, drummer Jesse Cahill and tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, won the Acoustic Group of the Year award and their album Foundations (Cellarlive) won for Album of the Year. In the fall of 2007 the group completed a 20 date Canadian tour that took them from Whitehorse to Montreal. She was also nominated for a Juno Award in 2008
.
Jodi is also a regular member of the Tilden Webb Trio, the Jill Townsend Big Band, the Joel Haynes Trio, the Miles Black Trio, the Oliver Gannon Quartet, the Ian McDougall 12tet and the Cory Weeds Quartet.
Proznick is on faculty at Capilano University and has been on faculty at the CYMC Pacific Jazz Workshop, the Yukon Arts Summer Music Program and Kwantlen University College. She has been an adjudicator and clinician at festivals across Canada including Music Fest Canada, the Envision Jazz Festival, the Brandon Jazz Festival, the Winnipeg Optimist Festival, the West Coast Jazz Festival and the Nelson Jazz Festival. She has given clinics and concerts at McGill University, Brandon University, St. Francis Xavier University, Western Michigan University, Grant McEwan Community College, Capilano College, and UBC as well as the BCMEA and IAJE conferences.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
bassist
Bassist
A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
born in Vancouver, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
.
In 1993, Proznick won the General Motors
General Motors
General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...
Award of Excellence as one of the top young musicians in Canada. McGill University awarded Proznick a performance scholarship in 1997 as a member of the prestigious McGill Big Band I. In 1998, she won the IAJE "Sisters in Jazz" competition which brought her to New York to perform with Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen
Ingrid Jensen is a Canadian jazz trumpet player.Jensen is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and Malaspina University in Nanaimo, British Columbia. She has been nominated for several Juno awards, winning one with her first release, Vernal Fields...
and to Detroit to open for Geri Allen
Geri Allen
Geri Allen is an American composer/pianist educator jazz pianist, raised in Detroit, Michigan, and educated in the Detroit Public Schools. Allen has worked with many of the greats of modern music, including Ornette Coleman, Ron Carter, Ravi Coltrane, Tony Williams, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette,...
. In 2004, The Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded the Galaxie Rising Star of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival
Vancouver International Jazz Festival
The Vancouver International Jazz Festival is an annual summer event in Vancouver, Canada.The festival grew out of a local jazz scene that centred around Vancouver Co-op Radio , a community radio station, in the early 1980s...
. Jodi was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Specialized Music Sound Recording Grant for her debut release "Foundations." In 2007, the Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded a Canada Council Festival Travel Grant to perform at the Montreal International Jazz Festival as part of the GM Prix De Jazz competition.
In 1998, Jodi obtained her B.Mus. from McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
and in 2006, her M.Ed. from Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000...
.
Since moving back to Vancouver in 2000, Proznick has become a top call bassist. She has played and/or recorded with international stars such as David "Fathead" Newman, Ed Thigpen
Ed Thigpen
Edmund Leonard "Ed" Thigpen was an American jazz drummer, best-known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965...
, Jeff Hamilton, Charles McPherson, Seamus Blake, George Coleman
George Coleman
George Edward Coleman is an American hard bop saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, known chiefly for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.-Biography:...
, Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan
Sheila Jordan is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Jordan has recorded as a session musician with an array of critically acclaimed artists in addition to a notable solo career....
, Mark Murphy
Mark Murphy (singer)
Mark Murphy is an American jazz singer based in New York. He is most noted for his definitive and unique vocalese and vocal improvisations with both melody and lyrics...
, Eric Alexander, Lewis Nash, Warren Vache, Herlin Riley, Richie Cole, Bobby Shew, Wycliffe Gordon, Ryan Kaisor, Gerald Clayton, Tamir Hendelman, Eddie Henderson
Eddie Henderson (musician)
Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. Henderson's influences include Booker Little, Clifford Brown, Woody Shaw and Miles Davis.-Family influence and early music history:...
, Eddie Daniels
Eddie Daniels
Eddie Daniels is an American musician. Though he is best known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet....
, David Hazeltine
David Hazeltine
David Hazeltine is an American jazz pianist.Today a major pianist in the New York and Japan scenes, David Hazeltine has been playing gigs since he was thirteen. He did not seriously consider going into music until right before college. Once he entered into the jazz world he was encouraged by Chet...
, George Colligan, Kitty Margolis, Patience Higgins, Jim Rotundi, Houston Pearson, Scott Hamilton, George Robert, Grant Stewart, Ingrid Jensen, Joe Magnarelli, Gary Smulyan, Jim Snidero, Paul Bollenbeck, John Proulx and Canadian stars such as Denzal Sinclaire, Brad Turner
Brad Turner
Brad Turner may refer to:*Brad Turner , television show director*Brad Turner , former AHL/NHL hockey player*Brad Turner, fictional character in the cartoon series M.A.S.K....
, Phil Dwyer, Ian McDougall, Oliver Gannon, P.J. Perry, Don Thompson
Don Thompson (musician)
Donald Winston Thompson, OC is a Canadian jazz musician who plays bass, piano, and vibes. Thompson formed part of the Toronto Quartet of Paul Desmond during the mid seventies, and that effort produced two stellar albums. Other personnel on those dates, mostly at Bourbon Street in Toronto, were...
, Kirk McDonald, Hugh Fraser, Dee Daniels, Laila Biali and many others. A highlight in her career was opening for Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
with the Oliver Gannon Quartet at the Orpheum in the summer of 2004. Jodi was a featured soloist with the violinist Mark Fewer and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is a Canadian orchestra performing in Vancouver, British Columbia. Over 240,000 people attend its live performances each year. It was founded in 1930 and plays in 12 venues. Its home is the Orpheum theatre. With an annual operating budget of $9.5 million, it is the...
, with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and with Elektra
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....
. She also accompanied Michael Bublé
Michael Bublé
Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer. He has won several awards, including three Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found worldwide commercial success with his 2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible was...
in the closing ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games.
Proznick was awarded Bassist of the Year at the 2007 and 2008 National Jazz Awards. Her group, the Jodi Proznick Quartet, which features pianist Tilden Webb, drummer Jesse Cahill and tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, won the Acoustic Group of the Year award and their album Foundations (Cellarlive) won for Album of the Year. In the fall of 2007 the group completed a 20 date Canadian tour that took them from Whitehorse to Montreal. She was also nominated for a Juno Award in 2008
Juno Awards of 2008
The Juno Awards of 2008 were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the weekend ending 6 April 2008. These ceremonies honoured music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2006 and in most of 2007....
.
Jodi is also a regular member of the Tilden Webb Trio, the Jill Townsend Big Band, the Joel Haynes Trio, the Miles Black Trio, the Oliver Gannon Quartet, the Ian McDougall 12tet and the Cory Weeds Quartet.
Proznick is on faculty at Capilano University and has been on faculty at the CYMC Pacific Jazz Workshop, the Yukon Arts Summer Music Program and Kwantlen University College. She has been an adjudicator and clinician at festivals across Canada including Music Fest Canada, the Envision Jazz Festival, the Brandon Jazz Festival, the Winnipeg Optimist Festival, the West Coast Jazz Festival and the Nelson Jazz Festival. She has given clinics and concerts at McGill University, Brandon University, St. Francis Xavier University, Western Michigan University, Grant McEwan Community College, Capilano College, and UBC as well as the BCMEA and IAJE conferences.
Sideman
- Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Opening Ceremony Commemorative Album - The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Orchestra
- Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Closing Ceremony Commemorative Album - The Vancouver 2010 Swing Orchestra
- Down on the Bottom - The Nightcrawlers
- Blow Up - Steve Kaldestad Quintet
- A Time To Heal - Moving Beyond Homelessness - Various Artists
- Too Much To Do - Nick LaRiviere
- Memory Cafe - Steve Maddock
- Transitions - Joel Haynes Trio featuring Seamus Blake
- It's Always You'" - Luis Giraldo
- Loving Memory - Gary MacDonald
- Chances Are - Jane Fair Quartet
- No Boundaries - Ron Peters and Bill Coon
- Contemplation - Christie Grace
- Cellar Groove– Tilden Webb Trio feat. David Newman
- The Time Is Now– Joel Haynes Trio
- Run With It – James Danderfer Group
- Live at the Cellar – Charles MacPherson Quartet
- The Best of CBC's Hot Air, Vol. 4 - Compilation
- Live from Lotusland - Mike Rud
- Swingmatasim - Gary Guthman
- Jazz Vistas - Jane Leroux
- Something Personal - McGill Big Band
- Little Temptations - Sienna
- Real Time - Sienna (Independent)
- Cellar Live: The First Five Years - Compilation