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Dan Fortin

Dan Fortin was born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario. His eclectic tastes and stylistic flexibility have led to work with a wide variety of artists in the jazz, rock and pop worlds, including Bernice, The Allison Au Quartet, Queer Songbook Orchestra, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Aline’s étoile magique, John Southworth,  Serena Ryder, July Talk, Devon Sproule, Mike O’Neill, Laila Biali, Bryn Roberts, Mike Murley, Nicky Schrire, David Occhipinti, Tara Davidson, Harley Card, Michael Davidson, Alex Goodman, Zoon, and many others. He’s been lucky enough to play at a number of great venues, including Cafe Oto, 55 Bar, Smalls, SFJAZZ Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival, Sunset/Sunside, JazzDock, Jamboree, Jimmy Glass, Koerner Hall, and the Tranzac.

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éclipse

Label: Elastic Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Caraway; Cosmos; Hanakotoba; Circa Herself; Rose du ciel; Aliens are Pieces of Wind; Le belle et l’abeille; Mesarthim; Starring Space; Segment; Beinntot, We Will Collide.

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Nowhere Girl

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Nowhere Girl 3.15 (Schrire) 2. Traveler 3.52 (Schrire) 3. A Morning 4.31 (Schrire) 4. Closer To The Source 4.19 (Mseleku, Schrire) 5. This Train 4.09 (Schrire) 6. Father 5.18 (Schrire) 7. In Paris 4.05 (Schrire) 8. Heart Like A Wheel 5.26 (McGarrigle) 9. Love Is For The Birds 3.38 (Schrire) 10. Keep It Simple 3.58 (Schrire) 11. My Love 3.55 (Schrire)

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Aline Homzy: éclipse

Read "éclipse" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


An adage goes: “Patience Is A Virtue." That saying may be perfectly exemplified with the release of violin virtuoso Aline Homzy's recording Éclipse, which has been ten years in the making. This Canadian-American artist's long-awaited debut combines the jazz violin tradition into the contemporary world with improvisation and subtle composition. Joining Homzy under the rubric of ...

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Aline’s étoile magique: éclipse

Read "éclipse" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Whether 23andMe.com, MyHeritage.com, or ancestry.com can positively divine gypsy blood in award-winning, Canadian violinist Aline Homzy is conceptually and musically neither here nor there. What is important is that she jumps from the gate on her robust debut recording with a zesty momentum which she mightily sustains throughout. Homzy, who has no problem mixing ...

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Bientot, We Will Collide

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Label: Elastic Recordings
Released: 2023
Duration: 3:11

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Nicky Schrire: Nowhere Girl

Read "Nowhere Girl" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The search for identity is a sine qua non of any artist's experience and development. But for a musician like Nicky Schrire, it goes much deeper than most. Born in London, raised in South Africa, studying and entering the professional ranks in New York and working back through her initial points of origin before relocating to ...

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Traveler

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Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:52

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Love Is For The Birds

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Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 03:38

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A Porta Aperta

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Nymark Plaza; Perimeter; Hunch; A Porta Aperta; Trip the Light, Fantastic; Far; Shimmy; Rye And Lilacs; A Serretinha Em Julho.


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