Festival season is upon us and I am onboard to take part, live and in person. During the weekend of June 24 to 26 I hiked...
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...
Before you wring your hands in despair and exclaim: “Oh no! Not another ‘Beatles in Latin’ recording…” think hard because in a manner of speaking there...
One of the most significant aspects of the artistic contribution of Beny Esguerra to the art of the KUISi is not mentioned anywhere on the notes...
As the terrible events of Russia’s persecution and invasion of Ukraine unfold, the destruction that has befallen Kharkiv, must surely call to mind – both tragically...
This recording – Vintage Americana [NV6384] is a welcome follow-up to Retro Americana [NV6361] – also by Christina Petrowska Quilico, who has the requisite gamut of...
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...
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...