The big, rolled and warm notes of Joel Frahm’s saxophones are all over the liquefying, molten repertoire on The Bright...
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...
The great Muhammad Ali’s famous rebel yell: “I’m black and I’m beautiful!” rings true over and over again through the eleven tracks that fill this compilation...
With so much 21st century programmatic music to choose from in the realm of Jazz it’s refreshing when a disc turns up that harks back to...
Marilyn Lerner, Karen Ng, Nick Fraser, Rob Clutton, Pete Johnson and Nick Storring are all part of a burgeoning group of free-thinking musicians who – despite...
Even without the pandemic it seemed that the Jazz big band was destined for demise – what with the paucity of funds to sustain the employment...
It has been impossible to think of the city of Toronto without, at some point, the near-ubiquitous grooving of the city’s iconic band Shuffle Demons. Born...
What better way can there be to get to know the unique character music of Alan Hovhaness than listening to...
This recording, Dream Logic – as the website of Sarah Jerrom tells us – is one that launches her career...
Antonio José Santana Martins, better known worldwide as Tom Zé better personified Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropofágico with whimsical “power...
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...