Composing Now: Four Views
Defining what jazz is has always been one of the most elusive pursuits. Disagreements and controversies still abound, but no one calls into question its…
Browsing: John Hollenbeck
Fall Previews
As the summer winds down, the scene starts to pick up again, and pretty quickly, too, in the very week after Labour Day. Here’s what…
Three Years Later
Around this time in 2015, two musicians of international standing, John Hollenbeck and Jean-Michel Pilc, were setting up shop in Montreal. Both were hired that…
Summer Jazz Fest Picks
With its roster of some 20 member events, Jazz Festival Canada is an umbrella organization that enables national and international artists to coordinate tours from…
CD Review – The Claudia Quintet: Super Petite (Cuneiform Records)
Named after a term used to describe a friend of the band, Super Petite from Cuneiform Records’ Claudia Quintet fuses dense, eclectic, and complex ideas…
