2010 Concerts
June 28 at the Vancouver Jazz Festival
The Ian McDougall 12-tet played their debut performance as part of the CBC concert series in the Vancouver Jazz Festival. The concerts took place in CBC's Studio One.
July 12-18
Ian gave a masterclass at the Larsen Music summer jazz camp in Victoria.
August 6-7
Ian will teach and perform at Phil Dwyer's summer music camp in Qualicum Beach. Go to their website for more details (times TBA).
August 8 at 2:00 pm
The Ian McDougall Sextet will perform at the Maple Bay Marina near Duncan, BC as part of the Cowichan Valley Summer Concerts Series. Call Ken Hicks at 250-746-8654 for more details, or e-mail him at birdseyeview(at)telus.net.
October 21
Ian will be a guest clinician with the British Columbia Music Educators' Association Convention.
2009 Highlights
Ian participated in a wonderful reunion with Rob McConnell's Boss Brass in Toronto, Ontario at the Old Mill Inn. The three evening event (Dec. 16-18, 2008) was hosted by the Jazz Radio FM station 91.1 and they recorded the performance on the third night. It was broadcast on JazzFM (91.1) on Sunday January 18, 2009.
Island Jazz published an extensive article about Ian by Rick Gibbs: A Good Road – Ian McDougall reflects on a life well lived.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean (C.C., C.M.M., C.O.M., C.D., Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada) presided over the Order of Canada Investiture Ceremony at Rideau Hall, bestowing the honour on three Companions, 11 Officers and 21 Members, including Ian McDougall!
(National Lifejacket Day) The Ian McDougall Big Band was selected as big band of the year by the National Jazz Awards. Their CD "No Passport Required" is available for sale on our site, and also at CD Baby.
Ian's website was redesigned. Feel free to email and let us know what you think!
2008 Highlights
Ian had a very busy summer, playing in Victoria, Qualicum Beach, Bamfield, Parry Sound Ontario, and Vancouver, and then taking his sextet on a two week tour to Denmark and Sweden. Ian's CDs were made available for digital download at CD Baby.
2007 Highlights
Ian travelled to New York City to the annual IAJE convention and received the "Phil Nimmons established composer award" from SOCAN and IAJE. His new big band composition Chaos at the Border was premiered at the convention by the Jill Townsend Big Band from Vancouver BC. A 66 minute CD of Ian's big band compositions was released – "No Passport Required" – which featured a jazz concerto in three movements for trumpet and trombone with Ian and Brad Turner!
2006 Highlights
May 12-20: Concerts in Bern, Switzerland.
September 20-23: Ian was guest soloist with the Victoria Symphony, joined by his quintet.
November 4: The Phoenix Chamber Choir performed a concert at Shaughnessey United Church in Vancouver (8PM), and sang the premiere of Ian McDougall's Be Still My Soul written on a poem by English poet Gerald Bullett.
November 23: Concert at the Theatre Corona in Montreal, with PJ Perry, Oliver Jones, Michel Donato, Terry Clark, and guests.
November 24: Repeat of this concert at the Chan Centre in Vancouver.
November 26: the Ian McDougall Sextet performed in Whitehorse at the Yukon Arts Centre, 7:30 PM.
2005 Highlights
CD Release party in Victoria...October 25 at Hermann's. Tickets $20 and $15 for students. 8PM. Sponsored by UJAM, Ian is joined by the Quintet to celebrate the release of their new double CD set: In a Sentimental Mood.
Friday and Saturday October 28 and 29, 8PM – Ian and his quintet joined the Kamloops Symphony for two evenings of music "where classical meets jazz."
October 30: a CD release event in Vancouver at the Cellar on Broadway for Ian and the Quintet's new Ellington/Strayhorn CD entitled In a Sentimental Mood.
2004 Highlights
November 16: Ian received a "distinguished Alumni Award" from the University of Victoria.
December 9, 10, and 11: Ian performed as guest soloist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, under the direction of Senator Tommy Banks.
2003 Highlights
April 11: "Big Band Jazz Cabaret" – a tribute to Ian on his retirement, presented by the UVic School of Music. A jazz scholarship in Ian's name was established.
October 3, 4: CD Release Party at the Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver for the new live CD, Nights in Vancouver.
2002 Highlights
October 11: Ian McDougall Big Band gave a premiere performance at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre with special guest Brad Turner.
November 1, 2: The Sextet performed all new material at the Cellar in Vancouver for a new CD: Live at the Cellar which will be released in the spring
November 22: Trombone ensemble concerts with Al Kay in Vancouver and Victoria.
2001 Highlights
October 12, 13: Two sold out nights at the newly re-opened Hermann's Jazz Club in Victoria, for Ian's Sextet and the release of their new live CD Burnin' the House Down.
December 27: Palm Springs, California – Ian joined Rob McConnell, Pete Christleib, Bill Ramsay, Bobby Shew, Ken Peplowski, Gary Foster, and many others for Larry Hathaway's first Dessert Island Jazz Party.
2000 Highlights
February 25: Ian performed with Bill Watrous and the late Al Grey at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho.
May 26, 27 and 28: Ian performed with his sextet at Hermann's Jazz club and at the Alix Goolden Hall (The sessions were so "hot," three days later, Hermanns's burned to the ground!).
1999 Highlights
July 12-30: Ian was invited by the Queensland Biennial Festival to travel to Australia to participate in the "Jazz Train." This tour involved Ian and five other outstanding jazz 'mentors,' as they were called, to join two student bands on a train which travelled from Townsville south to Brisbane, stopping at three additional cities on the way. At each city they would work during the day with all the local schools who had jazz bands, and every evening there would be a concert involving local bands plus the two 'train' bands, with the jazz mentors as the featured soloists. During the night, the train would travel on to the next destination. It was an extremely successful project for the Queensland Biennial Celebration, and the complicated details of managing the jazz train project were very efficiently handled by the Australian team.
1998 Highlights
October 27 - December 6: Ian was invited to Britain to appear as Music Director in a BBC Big Band broadcast (for the second time). The concert took place in Brighton on November 22, and it featured the premiere of a new Suite written by Ian which featured himself and trumpeter / flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler (see Music Sales for more information). During the 6 week visit to the UK, Ian also appeared as a clinician and/or soloist at London University, Trinity College, the Guildhall Music School, the annual meeting of the British Trombone Society (where he was featured soloist for the evening's concert), Solihull (with the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra), Leeds College of Music, the Belfast Fringe Festival, and Glasgow, at the Royal Scottish Academy.