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Team Member Joel Bakan Featured on New Album!

Joel Bakan, team member on the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) has just released a new album with Rebecca Jenkins: Rebecca Jenkins and Her Trio, Live at the Cellar.

The album was recorded live in February 2014 at Vancouver's Cory Weeds' Jazz Cellar, and features Myim Bakan-Kline on drums, and Bruce Meikle on bass. The album released July 3/4 in Toronto at the Jazz Bistro.

To purchase their album, please visit:

iTunes, Amazon, or CD Baby.

Improvisation implies a deep connection between the personal and the communal, self and world. A “good” improviser successfully navigates musical and institutional boundaries and the desire for self-expression, pleasing not only herself but the listener as well.

– Rob Wallace