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...
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...
TU Jazz 2017: Pioneers of the Future
When the English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth published his poem, “The Rainbow” one of the lines he wrote became an iconic rallying call for...
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...
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...
Rich Brown and Rinsethealgorithm at The Jazz Bistro
Jazz Bistro - Toronto, April 1st, 2017 - RinsetheAlgorithm: Rich Brown - bass; Luis Deniz - sax; Robi Botos - keys; Larnell Lewis -...
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...
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...
