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Jazz Fest: Tedeschi Trucks Band

June 28 2016, 8:00 p.m. Jazz Fest: Tedeschi Trucks Band. The Vancouver International Jazz Festival presents the 12-piece tour de force, roots inspired Tedeschi Trucks Band.. Event detailsTedeschi Trucks Band, a 12-piece tour-de-force, has quickly become the vanguard of modern roots music. Driven by Trucks, #16 of the top 100 Guitarists of All Time (Rolling Stone), and Tedeschi, blessed with a voice that passionately delivers powerful R&B belters to gentle ballads, the group enlists dual drummers, two vocalists, a three-piece horn section, bass, and a multi-instrumentalist keyboard player for a greater-than-the-sum-of-its parts collective. It's "a deeply skilled groove machine," raves the Los Angeles Times. Tedeschi Trucks Band debuted big with its Grammy Award-winning Revelator, 2012's dynamic live follow up, Everybody's Talkin', and 2013's critically acclaimed Made Up Mind bolstered the Jacksonville-based group's growing reputation as the preeminent blues-rock leader. With guitarist Derek Trucks' departure from The Allman Brothers Band final at the end of 2014, the band has fully dedicated itself to expanding its legendary live performances. TTB has just released a third studio album, Let Me Get By... Event Details. Location: 630 Hamilton Street, Vancouver