Formed in 2006, the Georgia Straight Jazz Society is a non-profit society based in the Comox Valley. Its vision is to develop and sustain a healthy and vibrant jazz community in the Vancouver Island region.

The Georgia Straight Jazz Society is getting a name for itself in the Vancouver Island jazz scene, and beyond.  In the space of less than two years, the society has developed a popular weekly jazz club and offers monthly ticketed events with top-notch players from Vancouver, Victoria and abroad.

The GSJS is most proud of the high calibre of jazz now being played and appreciated by local musicians and audiences.  With a regular venue and opportunities to play, veteran and emerging jazz musicians have supported and challenged each other to grow their skills and develop their chops.

Players and singers from 13 to 83 years of age regularly appear on the jazz club stage, before engaged audiences that continue to show their support and interest and musical know-how as the months have passed.  A committed group of volunteers keep the sounds happening and the audiences happy.

The purposes of the Georgia Straight Jazz Society are:

• To increase public awareness of and to nurture an appreciation for all forms of jazz;
  
• To present performances by a wide variety of musicians representing all forms of jazz;
  
• To stimulate the local jazz communities by producing events and activities in which artists can interact creatively;
  
• To provide opportunities for school aged musicians to create jazz for a public audience;
  
• To augment the educational instruction of school aged musicians in jazz performance, improvisation, and composition; and
  
• To establish and strengthen the jazz music community on Vancouver Island.