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...
You can never be sure what to expect from a musician even after you listened their earlier offering believing it would be hard to top in...
It is impossible to understate the prodigious gifts of Laila Biali; a pianist of considerable virtuosity and a vocalist of great delicacy who can also be...
The reference to a “skeleton crew” can never be lost on anyone who’s ever worked the graveyard shift in a metropolis that never sleeps. It’s a...
There is a line in Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier’s lyric for “O Canada” that reads, “The true north strong and free…” which doubtless refers to the country’s...
The lively arts community in and around Toronto boasts some of the most fascinating musical minds in TuneTown, and these three musicians – drummer Ernesto Cervini,...
Patricia Cano is a breathtaking and seductive vocalist, and unlike any almost musician of her generation she can sing as if native in English, French, Spanish,...
