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...
On Thursday, October 13, 2022, representing two generations of Cuban Piano Masters, Hilario Durán and David Virelles got together at Koerner Hall, one of the most...
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...
Have you ever checked out a symphony in a barn? If not, you must, it is a marvellous experience. I attended my first Symphony in a...
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...
This recording of the Viola Music of David Jaeger features violist Elizabeth Reid and pianist Alison Bruce Cerutti, both prodigious...
The Canadian singer Angela Verbrugge declares her Love for Connoisseurs [of music] with one superb song after another on this,...
Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have...
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...