With so much 21st century programmatic music to choose from in the realm of Jazz it’s refreshing when a disc turns up that harks back to...
Marilyn Lerner, Karen Ng, Nick Fraser, Rob Clutton, Pete Johnson and Nick Storring are all part of a burgeoning group of free-thinking musicians who – despite...
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...
A Biography of Sonny Greenwich The great Ezra Pound, always forthcoming with advice – often unsolicited – to writers and poets aspiring to “make it new”...
Four years ago (in 2016), Dalya Alberge of The Guardian wrote that the great violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented the dearth of individuality among pianists and...
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...
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...