Jazz Articles about Andrew MacKelvie

About Andrew MacKelvie

Album Review

In 2012, Andrew MacKelvie was struck by a drunk driver while cycling through Halifax. He broke his back, shattered his knee, and landed on his saxophone case, which likely kept his head off the pavement. What followed were months of immobility and, eventually, a compositional fixation on that sliver of time when everything might have turned out differently. Many Worlds takes its title from the quantum theory of branching possibilities and its method from chance. The music is ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Releases From MacKelvie, Douglas, Meyer, Bernhard and More

by Bob Osborne
March 5, 2026

A mixed set of new releases with a broad selections of styles in play including a preview of the type of material likely to land on Record Store Day in April 2026 i.e. the ubiquitous “previously unreleased material." Early indications are that there will be a flurry of material from archives. Pending that here is a bakers dozen plus one of artists striving to extend existing jazz boundaries to exciting new places. Playlist Andrew MacKelvie “Realities Blossom" from ...

Album Review

New Hermitage: Unearth

by Troy Dostert
September 20, 2020

"Collapsologists" are a new breed of thinker, committed to preparing us for life after civilization as we know it comes to an end. It's hard to read any recent account of the stark realities of climate change, or to grapple with the precarious geopolitical winds now reaching gale force, without giving at least a cursory recognition that this somewhat gloomy endeavor may have a point. In any event, if music is needed to assist in the transition to a new ...