Jazz Articles about Robi Botos

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Album Review

Al Muirhead: Still Cookin' at 90: The Canada Sessions, Volume II

Read "Still Cookin' at 90: The Canada Sessions, Volume II" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 21, 2025

"Twelve years ago," bassist Kodi Hutchinson writes in the liner notes to The Canada Sessions, Volume II, “I found myself on a bandstand with 78-year-old trumpeter Al Muirhead. I remember thinking, why has this amazing musician never recorded under his own name?" Fast forward a dozen years, to 2025, and Muirhead, still going strong at age 90, has not only released five albums under his own name, he earned a prestigious JUNO nomination for the first one while continuing to ...

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Guido Basso: One More For The Road

Read "One More For The Road" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
September 1, 2023

Guido Basso, known for his mastery of the flugelhorn and trumpet, died in February of 2023. From his earliest days in Montreal playing with the Maury Kaye band, to working in the US with top performers such Vic Damone and Pearl Bailey, Basso gained a reputation as a consummate musician who was capable of working in a variety of settings. Deciding not to remain in the U.S., Basso returned to Canada and settled in Toronto. Here, he established himself as ...

Album Review

Robi Botos: Old Soul

Read "Old Soul" reviewed by Anya Wassenberg

by Anya Wassenberg
February 26, 2018

Old Soul is a personal meditation wrapped up in a contemporary jazz album, offering complex yet accessible music with diverse influences that stem from Robi Botos' life story. Pianist and multi-instrumentalist Robi Botos takes his core quartet of Seamus Blake on sax, Mike Downes on bass, and Larnell Lewis on drums through a collection of largely original tracks that revolve around themes of lost places and friends, new hope and optimism for the future. “Old Soul," ...