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Chris Andrew

Since graduating from Grant MacEwan College in 1990, Chris has become a key player in the Alberta music scene. His musical diversity can be seen through his numerous performances over the years in genres such as jazz, funk, pop, latin, or musical theatre. He has studied in Cuba and has toured across Canada countless times in a number of bands in various musical styles. Although well known as a jazz educator in Alberta, Chris is best known for his ability to play. In the jazz vein, Chris’ resume lists a veritable who’s who of jazz. Chris has performed with Joshua Redman, Sonny fortune, Bud Shank, Pete Christlieb, Joe LaBarbera, P.J

Album

Prismatic

Label: Bent River Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Stone; Dawnstruck; Blue Shift; Showtime: Potter's Wheel; Prismatic; Waking Dream; State of the Union

Album

No Hugs

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Too Soon Gone; Agoraphobia; So Long; March Of The Covidians; No Hugs; The Kestrel; Scaredy Cat; Gring's Dilemma.

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Article: Album Review

PJ Perry: No Hugs

Read "No Hugs" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


PJ Perry is a survivor. Now, in 2022, eighty-one years old, he has been playing saxophone since he was fourteen, when he joined his father's dance band as a baritone saxophonist. During the course of his lengthy career, he has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and a couple of European cities, before settling in Edmonton, Alberta. ...

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Article: Album Review

Audrey Ochoa: Frankenhorn

Read "Frankenhorn" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Trombonist Audrey Ochoa's Frankenhorn has a big, bold sound. The set was originally planned as a feature for duets with pianist Chris Andrew, with remixes by electronica DJ Battery Poacher. But things got out of hand, in the best sense of things. A rhythm section and strings and keyboard seasonings were brought into the mix, resulting ...

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Article: Album Review

Jim Brenan 11: 50 / 50

Read "50 / 50" reviewed by Jack Bowers


A popular jazz magazine once had (and perhaps still has) a list of CDs in most issues labeled “beyond category." 50 / 50, the debut (?) recording by Canadian saxophonist / composer Jim Brenan's eleven-piece ensemble, would fit quite comfortably therein. It is as hard to ascertain Brenan's frames of reference as it is to unravel ...

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Article: Album Review

Al Muirhead: Northern Adventures

Read "Northern Adventures" reviewed by Jack Bowers


When you've been a musician as long as Al Muirhead has, you not only earn many friends in the business, you also recognize who among them can play. For Northern Adventures, Muirhead's second album as leader of his own group, the eighty-one-year-old Canadian trumpeter assembled a who's who of the finest musicians his country has to ...

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News: Recording

5-Time Global Music Award Winning Vocalist & Trumpeter Johnny Summers Releases New Album For The Holidays Entitled "When It's Christmas Time"!

5-Time Global Music Award Winning Vocalist & Trumpeter Johnny Summers Releases New Album For The Holidays Entitled "When It's Christmas Time"!

Most musicians say they are lovers of great songs, but very few are able to show it in the way that Johnny Summers does! With the new holiday album, Johnny Summers: When It’s Christmas Time, 2015 winner of three Global Music Awards including Best Male Vocalist, Johnny Summers shows why he has become Canada’s best kept ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Hutchinson Andrew Trio: Prairie Modern

Read "Hutchinson Andrew Trio: Prairie Modern" reviewed by John Kelman


If Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are the only places in Canada considered, in any way, as hotbeds for jazz, the prairie provinces are, with the exception of the annual Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, pretty close to the bottom of the list of other Canadian cities that have small but aspiring jazz scenes. ...

Album

the River

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Cannonball.


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