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Linda Szentes and Jazzlinks is a jazz combo made up of friends who are also accomplished, improvising musicians. Linda’s rhythm section includes (in varying combinations) Brenda Baird, keyboard, Mike Toth, guitar, Johan Worst, bass, who is well known to Abbotsford folks, and Zoltan Kollar, drums.
Linda is an accomplished and versatile singer in many genres who has loved and listened to jazz throughout her life; she started studying in earnest with Bob Murphy, the great Canadian jazz pianist, in 2013. Linda is a musician and a singer: combined with her lyrical, flexible voice and consistent swing feel, she is a natural improviser.
This group is distinctive for two reasons: it successfully interprets a wide repertoire – vocal and instrumental jazz hits from the 20’s/30’s to the 70’s – and a diversity of styles within the jazz genre: classic jazz standards, swing era tunes with roots in American popular song/Tin Pan Alley, blues-inflected jazz, latin/bossa, bop, and 70’s funk. Jazzlinks also has a distinctive sound which comes from working with the same personnel consistently; warm and blues-oriented with an infectious swing feel and melodic improvising.
Recent projects include a tribute to Doris Day and Anita O’ Day called “What a Difference a Day Makes”; Jazzlinks opened up North Delta’s new Arts Centre with this tribute show in February. Jazzlinks has also been a frequent guest at the House of James and is very please to be back in Abbotsford to perform for the Abbotsford Arts Council’s Mill Lake Music series.
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Members may submit requests to have their events listed on the calendar at [email protected]. Please email your events at least 2 weeks in advance in order to guarantee your event is posted.
Address
2387 Ware Street
Abbotsford, BC
V2T 6Z6
Mailing Address P.O. Box 336, Station Main Abbotsford, BC
V2T 1X0
Regular hours:
Thursday – Saturday
11am – 3pm
Closed Sundays and Holidays.