Jodi Proznick

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Jodi Proznick
Proznick at the Canadian National Jazz Awards
Background information
Birth name	Jodi Proznick
Born	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre(s)	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Bandleader, composer, musician
Instrument(s)	Acoustic Bass
Associated acts	The Jodi Proznick Quartet
Website	www.jodiproznick.com

In 2008, the Jodi Proznick Quartet album "Foundations" was nominated for a Juno Award.

Jodi was nominated for Bassist of the Year at the 2007 National Jazz Awards. Her group, the Jodi Proznick Quartet, which features pianist Tilden Webb, drummer Jesse Cahill and tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, was nominated as Acoustic Group of the year and their album Foundations (Cellarlive) was nominated as Album of the Year. In the fall of 2007 the group completed a 20 date Canadian tour that took them from Whitehorse to Montreal.

In 1993, Proznick won the General Motors Award of Excellence as one of the top young musicians in Canada. McGill University awarded Proznick a performance scholarship in 1997 as a member of the prestigious McGill Big Band I. In 1998, she won the IAJE "Sisters in Jazz" competition which brought her to New York to perform with Ingrid Jensen and to Detroit to open for Geri Allen. In 2004, The Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded the Galaxie Rising Star of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Jodi was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Specialized Music Sound Recording Grant for her debut release "Foundations." In 2007, the Jodi Proznick Quartet was awarded a Canada Council Festival Travel Grant to perform at the Montreal International Jazz Festival as part of the GM Prix De Jazz competition.

In 1998, Jodi obtained her B.Mus. from McGill University and in 2006, her M.Ed. from Simon Fraser University.

Since moving back to Vancouver in 2000, Proznick has become a top call bassist. She has played with international stars such as David "Fathead" Newman, Ed Thigpen, Charles McPherson, Seamus Blake, George Coleman, Sheila Jordan, Mark Murphy, Eric Alexander, Ryan Kaisor (of the Lincoln Center Orchestra), Eddie Henderson, Eddie Daniels, George Colligan, Kitty Margolis, Patience Higgins, Jim Rotundi, Houston Pearson, Scott Hamilton, George Robert, Ingrid Jensen and Canadian stars such as Denzal Sinclaire, Brad Turner,Phil Dwyer, P.J. Perry, Don Thompson, Kirk McDonald, Hugh Fraser, Dee Daniels, and many others. A highlight in her career was opening for Oscar Peterson with the Oliver Gannon Quartet at the Orpheum in the summer of 2004. In 2007, Jodi was a featured soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Jodi is also a regular member of the Tilden Webb Trio, the Jill Townsend Big Band, the Joel Haynes Trio, the Miles Black Trio and the Weeds/Minemoto Quartet.

Proznick is on faculty at Capilano College, the CYMC Pacific Jazz Workshop, the Yukon Arts Summer Music Program and Kwantlen University College. She has been an adjudicator and clinician at festivals across Canada including Music Fest Canada, the Envision Jazz Festival, the Brandon Jazz Festival, the Winnipeg Optimist Festival, and the Nelson Jazz Festival. She has given clinics and concerts at McGill University, Brandon University, St. Francis Xavier University, Western Michigan University, Grant McEwan Community College, Capilano College, and UBC as well as the BCMEA and IAJE conferences.