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 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...
Devotees of the piano are often spoiled for choice recently, but so often it is the fingers that do the proverbial talking and not the musicianship...
Andy Ballantyne may owe much to the great ancestry of Jazz saxophone such as to men like Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Giuffre, John...
Antonio José Santana Martins, better known worldwide as Tom Zé better personified Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropofágico with whimsical “power...
Dominic Mancuso’s reputation could have rested on his Juno Award-winning Comfortably Mine [DOT Productions, 2010] alone. However, he continued his...
The great Muhammad Ali’s famous rebel yell: “I’m black and I’m beautiful!” rings true over and over again through the...
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...
The obsession with trying to define or assign a meaning to the word “jazz” is almost as old as the...
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...