Peter Hum Presents: Alpha Moment
I can’t think of a better way of presenting your own compositions, especially ones as gorgeous as these, than with an ensemble that embraces...
Rich Brown: Abeng
The anger of man often spills over into his art. One has only to look at Picasso’s celebrated painting, Guernica. Musicians are not exempt....
Eli Bennett Presents: Breakthrough
Eli Bennett arrives at Addo Records with a rich harvest of evocative music for tenor saxophone, ostensibly written very recently. The Vancouver-born tenor saxophonist...
Mark Kelso and the Jazz Exiles: Stealing From My Youth
A fierce energy leaps out of the speakers in the opening bars of Anti-Arktos (Bears, or a Centaur in Greek) – it’s an immensely...
Daniela Nardi Presents: Canto
That Toronto has been brimming with musical talent has been the city’s worst-kept secret. The malaise that has affected the arts in the face...
Ron Davis: Pocket Symphronica
At first blush, the word ‘Symphronica’ might draw attention to the wrong aspect of this music and that is gratuitous publicity for its creator....
Emilie-Claire Barlow: Clear Day
The story goes that Emilie-Claire Barlow and her boyfriend and producer, Steve Webster retreated to Mexico spending the greater part of 2014 there as...
Allison Au Quartet: Forest Grove
It is rare that you find a musician with such an erudite voice, a saxophonist with so distinctive a tone; add to that breathtaking...
Nancy Lane: Let Me Love You
The Canadian singer, Nancy Lane seems to have a voice made for the elegiac song, the ballad and other similar music. But she can...
