Fall 2023 Previews: Toronto Calling
With its July Downtown Jazz Fest and its August Markham counterpart now in the rearview mirror, the Toronto jazz scene motors along throughout the year…
Browsing: Scena Jazz
Fall Previews: Montreal Calling
If Guelph is the ignition switch for jazz in Southern Ontario, the Off Festival de Jazz de Montréal (OFJM) is its counterpart for the Montreal…
Post Festival Record Roundup
The Nimmons Tribute — Vol. 1 To the Nth / Vol. 2 Generational — Artist Produced Composer and educator Phil Nimmons, featured as the cover story of…
CD Review | Montréal Musica (Centrediscs, 2023)
Montréal Musica Marc Bourdeau, piano Centrediscs, 2023 Marc Bourdeau’s new project features piano music by Montreal composers. The innovative project, conceived during the pandemic, includes…
CD Review | Vejpoesi (Self-produced, 2023)
Vejpoesi Stephen Fearing, vocals and acoustic guitar; MC Hansen, vocals and electric guitar; Nikolaj Wolf, electric and upright bass; Jacob Chano, vocal, drums, and percussion…
Jazz Festivals 2023 – On Stage
For all of the uncertainties that loomed large over the Canadian jazz festival scene in recent years, it is now back in full swing in…
Jazz Festivals 2023: Behind the Scenes
New Man in Charge at Markham In the wake of its 25th edition last summer, the Markham Jazz Festival announced the appointment of Ernesto Cervini…
Phil Nimmons – 100 Years in the Making
This page also available in / Cette page également disponible en français The field of jazz has its share of stories about musicians who died…
George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization – A Primer
Composer George Russell’s theoretical construct that underpins all of this work stems from a basic fact and and a flaw within it. The fact is that all…
Masterminds Then and Now
Now into its second century, jazz has quite a checkered history behind it, filled with so many outstanding achievements by so many musicians of great…
