Every known civilisation partakes in music, though definitions of what that music is might vary wildly. Even more contentious is...
We join the music community around the world in grieving the loss of the formidable Jeanne Lamon, Music Director Emerita of Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber...
You might think that the fact that while a Black person was once considered 3/5th of a human being by the United States Constitution [the “Three-fifths...
The nature of exile [παρεπίδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a fate worse than death. Exile is...
The obsession with trying to define or assign a meaning to the word “jazz” is almost as old as the first soli played by the legendary...
Somehow, after two nights at Koerner Hall, on January 24th and 25th it seems appropriate to borrow from Abraham Lincoln who delivered his first inaugural address...
Every once and a while you come across an artist [the poetics of] whose musicianship makes your heart skip a...
The phrase poeta nascitur non fit [a poet is born, not made], first used in the Lectiones Antiquae [Venice, 1516]...
Even though the title of this album – From the Heart & Soul – by the late and incomparable Dianne...
We join the music community around the world in grieving the loss of the formidable Jeanne Lamon, Music Director Emerita...
You might think that the fact that while a Black person was once considered 3/5th of a human being by...
The nature of exile [παρεπίδημος or parepidémos] is rooted in both mythology and history and is often expressed as a...
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...
Robi Botos has been hailed as one of the most diverse multi-instrumentalists of this generation. From the hard-bop style of...
Juno-award winning Jazz Saxophonist, Composer and Arranger, Allison Au refuses to be defined. Born to a Chinese father and Jewish...