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About Bonnie Northgraves
Northgraves’s artist Bandcamp and agency biography identify her as a Vancouver-based trumpet player, vocalist, pianist, and composer. Both sources describe a practice rooted in jazz of the 1920s through 1940s alongside original music written in related styles.[1][2]
Her catalog separates the Bonnie Northgraves Quartet from the Brown Sugar Bears and from recordings under her own name. This project structure makes clear where Northgraves is leading, singing, playing trumpet, or presenting a specific ensemble concept.[1]
Bandcamp documents Between Then and Now, Bonnie Northgraves and the Brown Sugar Bears, and Welcome to Trashland with full streaming and credits. The sequence combines period repertoire with Northgraves’s own composition and arranging.[1]
Between Then and Now
Northgraves’s first artist release introduces her combined trumpet, vocal, piano, and leader practice.[1]
Brown Sugar Bears
The separate ensemble album focuses Northgraves’s early-jazz repertoire in a named collaborative group.[1]
Welcome to Trashland
The quartet release extends her catalog with original writing and arrangements under her own group name.[1]