Emilie-Claire Barlow: Clear Day
You cannot help fall in love with the voice of Emilie-Claire Barlow
To call it beguiling would be understating the fact that it will have...
T.U. Jazz Festival 2017: Of Role Models and Acolytes
Our knowledge of human history is limited by several stumbling blocks. The greatest of these is belief; not belief of the religious kind but...
Cellar Live: West Coast Cool
I’ve never been to Canada’s West Coast, by which I mean to British Columbia. By all accounts it seems like a swell place to...
The Wayne Shorter Quartet In Concert
Wayne Shorter Quartet At Koerner Hall, Toronto, April 22, 2017
I Dare You
The Wayne Shorter Quartet, a treat for our times, these troubled times, when...
Being Patricia Cano
There is an iconic quote from Horace that describes Patricia Cano perfectly: poeta nascitur, non fit - “the poet is born, not made”. It...
Toronto Jazz Fest 2018: Still About the Music
When the outspoken musician and multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Payton deemed himself the preserver of “archaic pop” he was giving a kind of true, historical legitimacy...
Allison Au: Lithe and Elegant, and Swinging Anew
By all accounts 2017 was a stellar year for the composer and alto saxophonist, Allison Au. The ethereally beautiful second album Forest Grove that...
Lina Allemano x 2: Sometimes Y and Squish It
The Canadian composer and trumpeter Lina Allemano, who splits her time between Toronto and Berlin seems to have spent much more time in the...
TU Jazz Fest 2018: Next-Gen Jazz Musicians Spend Their Inheritance
The lineage of Jazz has now gone back almost four generations since the legendary Buddy Bolden is known to have blown his life out...
Allison Au: Like a Melody Blooming
I am nervous about meeting Allison Au and have been so for a whole week (and more) before the 20th of June, when we...
