About Your Host

Some people come to jazz. Others return to it — drawn back by the pull of something that never really left.
Your host is a lifelong musician with a degree in Jazz History and Women’s Studies, whose honours thesis was a live performance exploring the women’s blues of the 1930s as primary historical documents. That instinct — to find history inside sound — has never gone away.
From 1980 to 1989, she performed and competed on saxophone, guitar, and piano, earning awards for both performance and composition, and playing in the City Wind Ensemble, the Provincial Honour Band, and Canadian Youth on Tour. In the 1990s, she fronted the beloved Alberta-BC band Elephants Gerald, and hosted Songs My Father Taught Me, a jazz afternoon drive show on CJSR 88.5FM in Edmonton.
She has sung all her life. As one half of the voice-and-bass duo Bounce (2025–2029), she performed at Jazz City Edmonton and Festival Place. As a member of AV and the Inner City (2020–2024), she brought her voice to the Edmonton Folk Fest, Bear Creek Music Festival, the Vancouver Island Folk Festival, and the Canadian Blues Showcase.
In recent years, she’s come full circle — back to jazz, back to the Real Book, and newly in love with the bass. This show is the natural result: a place to share the listening, the stories, and the history she loves most.
This is the music that raised her. Now she’s passing it on.