Jodi Proznick Quartet

One of Canada's premier jazz bassists, Jodi Proznick is an award-winning performer known for her poetic, harmonically nuanced style. She emerged to acclaim after winning the 1998 IAJE Sisters in Jazz Competition and has since worked with a bevy of name performers including Michael Bublé, George Colligan, Sarah McLachlan, and many others. She released her debut album, Foundations, in 2006, winning bassist of the year at the National Jazz Awards and picking up her first Juno Award nomination for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year. More Juno nominations came her for 2019's Sun Songs (with her husband pianist Tilden Webb) and 2023's Ostara Project, her all-star women's big-band jazz album. Born in 1975 in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, Proznick grew up in a musical family the daughter of a music teacher. She started on bass at age 13 and was still in her teens when she won the 1993 General Motors Award of Excellence. After high school, she studied music at Montreal's McGill University where she met her future husband and collaborator, pianist Tilden Webb. In 1998, she picked up another accolade, winning the IAJE Sisters in Jazz Competition. Around 2000, she and Webb moved to Vancouver where Proznick eventually earned her master's degree in Art Education from Simon Fraser University. She debuted as a leader in 2006 with the quartet album Foundations, which picked up a Juno Award nomination for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year. The album also garnered her two National Jazz Awards for Album of the Year and Bassist of the Year. In 2017, she released her third album, Sun Songs, which featured her pianist Webb, drummer (and brother-in-law) Jesse Cahill, tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, and singer Laila Biali. A very personal statement, it found her detailing her mother's battle with early onset dementia, a struggle that contrasted with the joy of welcoming her first child. It earned Proznick her second Juno nomination, this time for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. Along with her solo albums and work alongside Webb, she co-founded Triology with guitarist Bill Coon and pianist Miles Black, debuting the group with a 2014 eponymous album, followed by 2019's Stairway to the Stars. That same year, she was named Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. She is also a member of the chamber ensemble Four Jays, Jasmine Jazz -- a collaboration with the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble -- and the Indo-Jazz fusion quartet Raagaverse with Hindustani singer Shruti Ramani. Over the years, she has worked with an array of artists including Michael Bublé, Seamus Blake, Sarah McLachlan, George Colligan, Eddie Henderson, and others. Throughout her career, Proznick has balanced performing and teaching. She has taught jazz theory and improvisation at both Capilano University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. From 2019 to 2020, she was the Manager of Education and Community Outreach for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and she holds the position of Jazz Department Chair at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music. Proznick is a 2022 recipient of the Lieutenant Governor's Arts and Music Award. A third Juno nomination came her way for 2022's Ostara Project, an all-women's jazz supergroup, featuring saxophonist Allison Au, trumpeter Rachel Therrien, guitarist Jocelyn Gould, drummer Sanah Kadoura, and vocalist Joanna Majoko.
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