Book Review: Live at the Cellar

Live at the Cellar
Marian Jago | UBC Press
$29.95 | 303pp
In this thoroughly engaging and well-researched look at the cooperative jazz club scene from 1955 — 1965, author Marian Jago tries to expand the narrative around influential regional Canadian jazz musicians. Many of these players might not have ever had the “privileging of recorded output, so common in the construction of jazz hierarchies,” so her book aims to square the record. In exploring the important work of players