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Ranee Lee

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Ranee Lee is now celebrating thirty-five years in Montreal, Canada, where she enjoys a successful, multi-faceted career as one of Canada's most popular jazz vocalists, an award-winning actress, a songwriter, and a proud author of children's books. Ranee has recorded twelve albums for Justin Time, a proud discography of acclaimed recordings that feature some of the finest jazz musicians of our time among its sidemen. A Dora Mavor Moore Award winning actress, Ranee starred in Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Canada's first production of the musical portrayal of Billie Holiday. Her subsequent recording, Deep Song, featured label mate Oliver Jones and well as Milt Hinton, bassist with Billie Holiday

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Article: Interview

Jim West: 40 Years and Going Strong at Justin Time Records

Read "Jim West: 40 Years and Going Strong at Justin Time Records" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

John Coltrane, Dave Liebman and Others

Read "John Coltrane, Dave Liebman and Others" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This vintage episode, from November 2021, features John Coltrane playing with Miles Davis and also Dave Liebman interpreting Coltrane's music. Other musicians heard include Dave Brubeck, Archie Shepp, Al Hibbler, and Anthony Ortega. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill ...

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Song of the Day

The Moon is Made of Gold

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Duration: 04:25

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Because I Loved

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Moon is Made of Gold; Sugar; The After Thought; Catching Up To Do; Not My Only One; Open Arms; My Favourite Distraction; So Long You Fool; Pieces; Forget Me; Necessary Evil; The Wine We Drink

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Article: Album Review

Joe Sullivan: Whisky Jack Waltz

Read "Whisky Jack Waltz" reviewed by Geannine Reid


Trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator Joe Sullivan grew up in a large Franco-Ontarian family in the Northern Ontario town of Timmins. As a youth, music was a part of daily life. Sullivan began his formal training on piano and at the age of fifteen he also started playing the trumpet. In his formative years, Sullivan led ...

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News: TV / Film

New Short Film Launched On Noted Montreal Jazz Drummer Jim Doxas

New Short Film Launched On Noted Montreal Jazz Drummer Jim Doxas

A film by Randy Cole Noted jazz drummer Jim Doxas speaks eloquently about color and texture, and how they define his musical ideas. Set in Montreal landmark club Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill and in the studio of artist Fung Sou, this short film puts you in the drummer's seat, and before the painter's canvas, conceptually ...

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Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone; When A Woman Loves A Man; Crazy When He Calls Me; What A Little Moonlight Can Do; God Bless The Child; Somebody's On My Mind; Easy Livin; Strange Fruit; Ain't Nobody's Business; Them There Eyes; Don't Explain; Deep Song; Fine And Mellow; Ill Wind.

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Article: Album Review

Ranee Lee: Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday

Read "Deep Song: A Tribute to Billie Holiday" reviewed by Larry Taylor


Deep Song--A Tribute To Billie Holiday is made up of vocalist Ranee Lee's wonderful renditions of classic Holiday recordings. Originally released in 1989, the disc has been beautifully remastered by Canada's Justin Time Records, with two bonus tracks added. True to her style, Lee doesn't try to create Holiday's unique plaintive quality but brings her own ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

2012 Yuletide Offerings

Read "2012 Yuletide Offerings" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


While thoughts of Christmas don't enter many a consumer's mind until Black Friday comes, musicians turn their eyes toward the last page of the calendar a bit earlier. Artists and labels need to conceive of, put together, record, release and market their holiday-themed albums early, so they can make their way into eager listener's stockings before ...


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