The potent language of Black American Music is in full force on Uptown in Orbit, featuring pianist Emmet Cohen and...
Diana Panton has long past the stage of being a “singer of boundless promise”. She is already a great artist. She has a reputation among her...
Young women musicians such as Katharine Timoney are a rarity. That’s because young musicians are not usually comfortable indulging in intense emotions; it’s not that they...
Catherine Marie Charlton doesn’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing… but it has the desired polyrhythmic effect all the time and...
It is not often than anyone – especially a guitarist – can pull off a recording that is packed, wall-to-wall with superheavyweight guitarists and bassists. But...
It seems as if every time we discover a composer whose music we would have known nothing – or very little – about, it is invariably...
The album Front Street Duets played by the great Hilario Durán and his one-time acolyte, David Virelles is a sublime recording. It is one that only...
There is something quite special about Ella, the 2022 album recorded by the prodigious pianist Glenda Del E and equally gifted violinist Daniela Padrón. There are...
The inimitable pianist, Rafael Zaldivar – like almost every Afro-Cuban musician – has never really left his heritage behind, no matter how far from his home...
The ubiquitous Trinidadian – and, in Toronto, pan-Caribbean – Instrument: the steelpan has never sounded so exquisite than in the delicately feminine hands of Joy Lapps...
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...
Diana Panton has long past the stage of being a “singer of boundless promise”. She is already a great artist....
Young women musicians such as Katharine Timoney are a rarity. That’s because young musicians are not usually comfortable indulging in...
Catherine Marie Charlton doesn’t let the right hand know what the left hand is doing… but it has the desired...
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...
Chris Assaad is a multi-talented artist, singer-songwriter, wordsmith and speaker. His songs are pure alchemy that open the heart, returning...
Lauren Falls is a sought-after bassist, composer, and bandleader who over the last decade has been making her mark both...
Robi Botos has been hailed as one of the most diverse multi-instrumentalists of this generation. From the hard-bop style of...