Results for "Brian O'Kane"

Brian O'Kane

Brian O’Kane is the Head of the Brass Department at Humber College in Toronto is a regular member of John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Jazz Orchestra (Juno Award 2010), the Barry Elmes Quintet, and has performed and recorded with groups including the Rob McConnell Tentet, The Boss Brass, Hilario Duran’s Latin Jazz Big Band (Juno Award 2006), and the Bernie Senensky Quintet. He has also backed up a lengthy list of international artists including Paul Anka, Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Diana Krall, and has appeared on numerous radio/television jingles and theatre productions as well as at jazz festivals across Canada and abroad

Magpie

By Sarah Jerrom

Label: TPR Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Part I: The Road; Part II: For Joy; Part III: Circling Feathers; Part IV: The White Elk; Part V: Nest Predator; Part VI: Carrion; Part VII: The Mountain Cries; Part VIII: Crystallization (For R.)

Night Flight

Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2024
Track listing: Night Flight; Morning Star; Opus 3; Sandino; Hindsight; Azure Te; Spiral Dance; Turn Out The Stars; Funk In Deep Freeze.

Part 1: The Road

May 21, 2024

Album: Magpie
By Sarah Jerrom
Label: TPR Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 09:27

Barry Elmes Quintet: Night Flight

by Pierre Giroux
February 2, 2024

Barry Elmes is a drummer and composer who, over the years, has made notable contributions to the Canadian jazz scene. On the release Night Flight, he pays tribute to several iconic composers such as Charles Mingus, Cedar Walton, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans and Hank Mobley each of whom had made a deep musical impression on Elmes. ...

The Toronto Project

By The Composers Collective Big Band

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: West Toronto Ode; Non-Sequitur; Spadina; Finding Home; Inside the Toy Factory; Interweave; The Commuter; Transit.

West Toronto Ode

May 21, 2023

Album: The Toronto Project
By The Composers Collective Big Band
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:12

John Macleod: The Toronto Sound

by Jack Bowers
May 4, 2018

Yes, this is Canada's John MacLeod and the Rex Hotel Orchestra. And yes, this is the ensemble's third CD, The Toronto Sound. But close your eyes and listen carefully and it modulates into no less than an earnest albeit clandestine homage to Rob McConnell and the peerless Boss Brass. Is that a good thing? Beyond any ...

Dog's Breakfast

By Barry Elmes

Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2017
Track listing: Little Sunflower; Dog's Breakfast; Terminal 2; Beautiful Love; Pierre Berton's Pig; Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most; Right As Rain; Katie's Blues; Sonar

KMJO: Common Ground

by Jack Bowers
April 16, 2017

KMJO is shorthand for the Kirk MacDonald Jazz Orchestra, and Common Ground is the third recording by the splendid Toronto-based group, following the well-received Deep Shadows (2011) and Family Suite for Large Ensemble (2012). This time around, the orchestra performs compositions by MacDonald arranged by one of Canada's premier co-pilots, Joe Sullivan. The ...