Audrey Ochoa: “I Just Like to Write Songs!”
Audrey Ochoa has designs on her career. “Deep down,” she says, “I just want to be a pop star!” She’s much more than half...
Mary Lou Williams, Geri Allen and Teri Parker: Free Spirits
To be fair, there’s also Allison Au, Rebecca Hennessy, Lauren Falls and Sarah Thawer. Together they will join Teri Parker to form Free Spirits,...
Q & A with Lizt Alfonso (Dance Cuba)
Conversation with Lizt Alfonso: Dancer, Company Founder, Director, Choreographer Extraordinaire
By Patricia Bell-Newson
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Cuban dancer and choreographer Lizt Alfonso...
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...
Ernesto Cervini: Quantum of Energy
Pounding away the calories... Quickening the heart rate… According to research the average drummer who weighs in at 185lbs can expend 1058.4 joules of...
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...
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...
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...
