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Lex French
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New Zealand-born jazz trumpet player Lex French, hailed by Radio Canada jazz critic Stanley Pean as “an extraordinary trumpeter,” is fast becoming a bright star on the Canadian jazz scene.
French possesses a unique voice on the trumpet and plays with technical virtuosity and abiding musical inventiveness, often being compared to legendary trumpeters Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and Kenny Wheeler. He is also an internationally sought-after composer and arranger and has recently been commissioned to write works for jazz orchestra, jazz quartet, and string quartet. He holds a Doctorate of Music from McGill University.
Divine Apology
By Saku Mantere
Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2025
Track listing: Meditation; Sorrow; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Lapin Äidin Kehtolaulu; Not Fair; Velvet; The Last Romantic; Ensin Toinen; Emerald Angel; Marty's Song
Of What Remains
By Melissa Pipe
Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Complainte du vent; La part des anges; Ici, ainsi; Fragment no. 2; Apothecium; Complaint du vent
(reprise); Day; Puudutus.
Harbour
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Passing Lion's Gate; Swirlaround; Wink; Surge; Harbour; Cascadian Fragments; Fantasy On Blue.
Jim West: 40 Years and Going Strong at Justin Time Records
by Kerilie McDowall
Owner of Canada's Justin Time Records, the multi-award-winning Jim West, has brought stellar top performers from the Canadian music scene and the USA to the global stage since 1983 for almost half a century, and that's some heavyweight “cred." To celebrate, the label has crafted a compilation, 40 Years of ...
L'Origine Eclatee
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: La déteinte; L'Origine éclatée; Séquence mouvante; Terre rouge (trio); L'Attente; Deux ombres;
Sud-Ouest.
Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains
by Hrayr Attarian
On the enchanting Of What Remains, her debut as a leader, Canadian saxophonist and bassoonist Melissa Pipe delightfully blurs the boundaries between jazz and western classical music. Pipe leads a cohesive sextet on seven of her haunting originals, on the theme of time, and an arrangement of Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits' “Puudutus." For instance, ...
La parte des anges
Album: Of What Remains
By Melissa Pipe
Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 08:30
Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains
by Dan McClenaghan
Montreal-based multi-reedist Melissa Pipe's artistic vision is fully formed. Her debut recording, Of What Remains, features a sextet which explores darkness with deep tones--Pipe plays baritone sax and bassoon here--by delving into temporality, the shifting of time and being, via chamber music reveries and jazz grooves. Noir is a word which comes immediately to ...
Love Letters to the Other Side
Label: LabelWhoAble
Released: 2022
Track listing: Urge to Breathe; Winter Lullaby; Seize the Day; Closer to You; Before They Arrive; On a Little Blue Street of the Past; Fall in Three; Morning After Unlimited Refills; Love Letters to the Other Side; Here, or Now, or Never.
