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 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...
What better way can there be to get to know the unique character music of Alan Hovhaness than listening to his profoundly beautiful and meditative music...
This recording, Dream Logic – as the website of Sarah Jerrom tells us – is one that launches her career as a songwriter as well as...
Antonio José Santana Martins, better known worldwide as Tom Zé better personified Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropofágico with whimsical “power to the imagination” and a delightfully...
Dominic Mancuso’s reputation could have rested on his Juno Award-winning Comfortably Mine [DOT Productions, 2010] alone. However, he continued his passionate musical exhortations on his next...
Even though the title of this album – From the Heart & Soul – by the late and incomparable Dianne...
Under normal circumstances you would refer to the repertoire on this album as “standards”, but when June Garber sings them...
With every recording she has produced Ayelet Rose Gottlieb has always given notice that she is an artist of the...
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...
You might think that the fact that while a Black person was once considered 3/5th of a human being by...
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...