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...
The alto saxophonist Luis Deniz may have been a relatively late Cuban arrival in Canada, descending upon the music scene in Toronto in 2004. However, the...
All she has to do is sing a few bars of the first song on What a Difference a Day Made and you’ll be captivated by...
