Jazz Articles about Robbie Kuster

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Album Review

Rene Lussier/Erick D'Orion/Robbie Kuster/Martin Tetreault: Printemps 2021

Read "Printemps 2021" reviewed by Mike Chamberlain

by Mike Chamberlain
December 15, 2021

The curious fact about this 52-minute improvisation by Rene Lussier (guitar and daxophone), Érick d'Orion (computer and electronics), Robbie Kuster (drums), and Martin Tétreault (turntables and electronics) is that, as far as we know, it was just the second indoor concert held in Canada after the pandemic started in March 2020, the second concert of the 2021 edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville held in May of this year. As such, it was the first time ...

Album Review

Marianne Trudel: La vie commence ici

Read "La vie commence ici" reviewed by Tyran Grillo

by Tyran Grillo
April 20, 2016

Pianist and composer Marianne Trudel may not be so well known outside her native Canada, but her elegantly crafted sound, as all good music does, carries its own passport and travels where it will. La vie commence ici is Trudel's sixth album as leader and immerses her within the sympathetic vibrations of trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, saxophonist Jonathan Steward, bassist Morgan Moore, and drummer Robbie Kuster. Trudel and Jensen share the deepest rapport of this particular session, and so it is ...