Jodi Proznick

Jodi Proznick (born October 23, 1975) is a Canadian jazz bassist, composer and educator. In 2019 she was named Jazz Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards, and she has been nominated for four Juno Awards.

Proznick is the Director of Jazz Studies at the VSO School of Music. For her contribution to music education in British Columbia she received the Lieutenant Governor's Arts and Music Award in 2022.

Career Proznick was born in Surrey, British Columbia. She began playing double bass at thirteen and was taught by her father, musician and educator David Proznick. While attending Semiahmoo Secondary School, she won the General Motors Award of Excellence in 1993. She attended McGill University from 1993 to 1998, where she met her future bandmates: drummer Jesse Cahill, tenor saxophonist Steve Kaldestad, and pianist Tilden Webb whom she married in 2004. While in Montreal, she worked with Christine Jensen, Kelly Jefferson, Ranee Lee, André White, Greg Clayton, and other prominent Montreal jazz artists. She was a winner of the IAJE Sisters in Jazz Competition in 1998.

Proznick moved to Vancouver in 2000, where she and Webb became leading members of the Vancouver jazz scene and the Cellar Music record label. Proznick won Bassist of the Year at the National Jazz Awards in 2008 and 2009. Sun Songs features her quartet alongside vocalist Laila Biali. The album earned Proznick her second Juno nomination in 2019 for Vocal Jazz Album. Two albums centered around ancestry and cultural backgrounds, Roots and Wings, followed in 2025. The Ostara Project has featured musicians such as Allison Au, Rachel Therrien, Jocelyn Gould, Sanah Kadoura, Joanna Majoko, Valerie Lacombe, Laila Biali, Shruti Ramani, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Dawn Pemberton, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, Virginia MacDonald, Marianne Trudel and Kim Zombik.

Proznick is a member of Four Jays, a contemporary chamber ensemble, and Jasmine Jazz, a collaboration with the Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble, both of whom have been nominated for Western Canadian Music Awards. She is a member of the Indo-Jazz fusion quartet Raagaverse, whose 2024 debut album Jaya earned Proznick her fourth Juno nomination. She has been featured on over 40 recordings as a side person.

Proznick is the Director of Jazz Studies at the VSO School of Music. She has been a guest adjudicator and clinician at festivals, colleges, universities, and conferences across Canada, such as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

Awards and honors

Discography As leader or co-leader 2006 – Foundations 2014 – Triology (with Triology) 2017 – Sun Songs 2019 – Stairway to the Stars (with Triology) 2022 – The Ostara Project (with The Ostara Project) 2025 – Roots (with The Ostara Project) 2025 – The Slow Road (with Triology featuring Scott Hamilton)

As sidewoman 1998 – Something Personal – The McGill Jazz Orchestra Directed by Gordon Foote 1999 – Realtime – Sienna Dahlen 2002 – Little Temptations – Sienna Dahlen 2003 – Live at the Cellar – Charles McPherson Quartet 2004 – Cellar Groove – Tilden Webb Trio with David Fathead Newman 2005 – The Time Is Now – Joel Haynes Trio 2005 - Live from Lotus Land – Mike Rud 2006 – Run with It – James Danderfer Group 2007 – Chances Are – Jane Fair 2007 – Feel This – Kia Kadiri 2007 – Contemplation – Christie Grace 2008 – No Boundaries – Bill Coon and Ron Peters 2008 – Transitions – Joel Haynes Trio with Seamus Blake 2008 – Live at the Cellar, Vol. 1 – George Evans 2008 – It's Always You – Luis Geraldo 2009 – Memory Cafe – Steve Maddock 2009 – Fresh – Bria Skonberg 2009 – Low Down, West Broadway – Joe Coughlin 2009 – Too Much to Do – Nick La Riviere 2010 – Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Opening Ceremony Commemorative Album – The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Orchestra 2010 – Sounds of Vancouver 2010: Closing Ceremony Commemorative Album – The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Orchestra 2010 – Blow-Up – Steve Kaldestad Quartet 2010 – Chez Nous: Christmas with Elektra – Elektra Women's Choir 2011 – Just Like That – Cory Weeds with the Tilden Webb Trio 2011 – Down in the Bottom – The Night Crawlers with the Big Band Sound 2011 – Anywhere But Here – Janice Finlay 2012 – JazzSpeak – Ralf Buschmeyer 2012 – Sunalta – Jon McCaslin 2012 – Live at the Cellar – Amanda Tosoff 2013 – Live at Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club – Peter Bernstein with the Tilden Webb Trio 2014 – Change Partners: Live at the Yardbird Suite – Champian Fulton 2014 – Easy Sailing – Oliver Gannon Quartet 2014 – Invitations – Jerrold Dubyk Quintet 2015 – Trio3 YVR – Jon McCaslin 2015 – Drinky – Tim Tamashiro 2016 – This Bitter Earth – Jaclyn Guillou 2017 – Keep Christmas With You – Katherine Penfold 2018 – Step Up – Miles Black Quartet and David Rehorick 2019 – Loving Memory – Gary Macdonald 2020 – Just One Moment – Miles Black Quartet and David Rehorick 2021 – Live at Cory Weeds' Cellar Jazz Club – Joe Magnarelli and Gary Smulyan with the Tilden Webb Trio 2021 – Tango-Klezmer-Jazz – Vetta Chamber Music (featuring Four Jays) 2022 – Love for Connoisseurs – Angela Verbrugge 2023 – Jasmine Jazz – Vancouver Chinese Music Ensemble ft. Jodi Proznick Trio 2023 – Within the Stream – Noah Franche-Nolan 2024 – Jaya – Raagaverse 2024 – Somewhere – Angela Verbrugge 2024 – Dunbar Heights – Allison Au Trio