Jazz Articles about Heather Bambrick

About Heather Bambrick

Album Review

The Nimmons Tribute: Volume 2--Generational

Read "Volume 2--Generational" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2023

If you live in Canada and are not familiar with the name Phil Nimmons, you probably have not been paying close enough attention. Nimmons, who surpassed the century mark in June 2023, is often referred to as the “Dean of Canadian Jazz," and listing his many accomplishments and awards would require far more space than is ordinarily set aside for a complete review. Suffice to say that Nimmons has been active as a composer, arranger, performer and educator longer than ...

Album Review

The Nimmons Tribute: Volume 2 - Generational

Read "Volume 2 - Generational" reviewed by John Chacona

by John Chacona
June 30, 2023

Anyone who listened to Canadian radio after the adoption of the so-called Canadian Content requirement in the '70s probably heard a lot of Phil Nimmons' music. To be sure, the clarinetist, composer and arranger had achieved some recognition south of the 49th parallel through his RCA recordings of the '50s but, by choosing to base his career in Toronto, he became a living symbol of Canadian jazz. When the nation celebrated the 100th anniversary of Confederation in 1967, Nimmons was ...

Multiple Reviews

Northern Voices: Heather Bambrick and Brenda Earle Stokes

by Dan Bilawsky
October 26, 2019

There's a vast array of notable singers that have been given unto us from the Great White North. In terms of star power you have Joni Mitchell, k.d. Lang, Sarah McLachlan, Shania Twain, Bruce Cockburn, the lovably twangy Neil Young and a croaky Leonard Cohen. And, of course, we have genre-straddling, jazz-breathing mega-names like Michael Bublé and Diana Krall. But then there's also a brilliant vein of today's vocal jazz figures--Susie Arioli, Laila Biali, Emilie-Clare Barlow, Amy Cervini, Sophie Milman, ...

Album Review

Heather Bambrick: You'll Never Know

Read "You'll Never Know" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
January 31, 2017

You know those stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks moments that only music can elicit? Those oh-so-rare occurrences where sound and intention hypnotize, leaving a permanent mark on the soul? This writer experienced one of those sonic epiphanies in hearing Heather Bambrick's enthralling version of “Far From The Home I Love." It's a song that I've been relatively indifferent about in the past, but Bambrick changed that with her take. She made a convert out of me. If Bambrick's name is new ...

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Album Review

Heather Bambrick: It's About Time

Read "It's About Time" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 12, 2004

The opening tune on It's About Time, “(Sing) Joyspring," had me savoring the snappy horn chart which embraces Canadian vocalist Heather Bambrick's technically perfect chops, a perfection that doesn't eschew organic ebullience and joy, suffused as it is with a hip, buoyant, guileless sauciness. The second song, “That's Falling in Love"--written, as it turns out, by Bambrick and Keith Power--made me think I'd let a Cole Porter tune slip under my radar somehow. Let's call that an auspicious one-two punch ...