The young Toronto musician – something of a multi-instrumentalist at that – and prodigiously-gifted guitarist, Liam Jaeger could be anything he chooses to be in music....
In the third installment of Wheel It Studios’ remarkable programme to showcase the real face of the dispossessed diaspora of Jane-and-Finch Ruben “Beny” Esguerra and Paul...
Every once and a while you come across an artist [the poetics of] whose musicianship makes your heart skip a beat. It doesn’t happen too often,...
Every known civilisation partakes in music, though definitions of what that music is might vary wildly. Even more contentious is whether music arose simultaneously with language...
The phrase poeta nascitur non fit [a poet is born, not made], first used in the Lectiones Antiquae [Venice, 1516] of Coelius Rhodigenus, seems to best...
Even though the title of this album – From the Heart & Soul – by the late and incomparable Dianne Brooks is a dead giveaway, nothing...
Under normal circumstances you would refer to the repertoire on this album as “standards”, but when June Garber sings them they become songs written by her...
With every recording she has produced Ayelet Rose Gottlieb has always given notice that she is an artist of the first order. However, with this 2020...
“Scatman”… the moniker for Benjamin Sherman Crothers is a dead giveaway for the kind of rhythmic vocalastics he practiced before his death in 1986. But even...
The big, rolled and warm notes of Joel Frahm’s saxophones are all over the liquefying, molten repertoire on The Bright Side. Even when he is playing...
O happy Fate to be overwhelmed by the cultural force that is the Kokoro Singers under the inspired artistic direction...
One of the most fascinating aspects of listening to music of Chris Trinidad, a young Canadian composer and bass guitarist...
Trust Chick Corea to have associated only with the finest musical partners throughout his long and illustrious career – from...
The Canadian singer Angela Verbrugge declares her Love for Connoisseurs [of music] with one superb song after another on this,...
Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have...
Listening to this fourth iteration of the music produced by the Beny Esguerra and a team of musicians including Paul...
A Biography of Sonny Greenwich The great Ezra Pound, always forthcoming with advice – often unsolicited – to writers and...
Four years ago (in 2016), Dalya Alberge of The Guardian wrote that the great violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented the...