Jazz Articles about Ross Burns

About Ross Burns

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 ...

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 ...