2024: The Year in Records
As 2024 comes to an end, let’s take a look (and a listen) to those releases we may have missed this year… The Sky Will…
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Cecil Taylor, Dark and Luminous
In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylorby Philip FreemanWolke Verlag, 2024, 344 p. Like his contemporaries and fellow avant-garde masters Bill…
Record Reviews
Fresh sounds… AnchorsJason Stein, bass clarinet; Joshua Abrams, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums; guest artist/co-producer Boon. TAO Forms (TAO 16), September 2024 Musicians who dedicate themselves solely…
Devin Daniels: Fire in the West
“I always tell people I’m trying to bring that toxic New York swing energy to L.A.,” saxophonist Devin Daniels confesses to Nate Chinen in the…
Jazz in Ontario: Guelph, Toronto & Beyond
GUELPH AT THE CROSSROADS This year, the Guelph Jazz Festival organization is in transition, after its former director, Scott Thomson, was appointed artistic and general…
Montreal (In)Flux
“It almost happened by accident,” says Peter Burton (from Arts in the Margins) about the many organisations pulling their forces together for the upcoming Flux…
Summer 2024: A Jazzlover’s and Festivalgoer’s Guide
For jazz fans, the summer festival season is often a unique occasion to see musicians and bands perform live that are otherwise only approachable through…
Summer Festival Record Round-up
To supplement to our summer issue, here are a few record reviews from artists touring Canada this season. On the one hand, one could say…
Leroux et le rythme – En concert
On ne présente plus le saxophoniste André Leroux au public montréalais : dans le dernier quart de siècle, il s’est imposé autant auprès des amateurs…
Book Review | Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
Published last September, Statesman of the Piano allows readers to uncover the autobiography of pianist Lou Hooper, entitled That Happy Road, which had previously been available via Library Archives Canada.
