The young Toronto musician – something of a multi-instrumentalist at that – and prodigiously-gifted guitarist, Liam Jaeger could be anything he chooses to be in music....
In the third installment of Wheel It Studios’ remarkable programme to showcase the real face of the dispossessed diaspora of Jane-and-Finch Ruben “Beny” Esguerra and Paul...
Every once and a while you come across an artist [the poetics of] whose musicianship makes your heart skip a beat. It doesn’t happen too often,...
The phrase poeta nascitur non fit [a poet is born, not made], first used in the Lectiones Antiquae [Venice, 1516] of Coelius Rhodigenus, seems to best...
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...
