Melody Diachun

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Tom Keenlyside: A Night at the Espresso

Read "A Night at the Espresso" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2022

As is true in many professions, jazz musicians must learn their craft before exposing it to audiences. Some, such as Canadian woodwind specialist Tom Keenlyside, remember where and when that happened. His musical education began for the most part at the Espresso Coffee House in Vancouver. Keenlyside has not forgotten that, even after more than fifty years as a guiding light on the British Columbia jazz scene, and pays tribute to his academic roots on A Night at the Espresso, ...

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Album Review

Melody Diachun: EQ

by Raul d'Gama Rose
September 11, 2008

Many critics love to debate if a record is jazz or pop or funk. However, many excellent recording and performing artists are sometimes either genre-bending or genre-defying. Besides, to serious fans of the art, there is either good music or bad music--that which is worth listening to or that which is eminently forgettable. Among the sea of albums released today, Melody Diachun's recommended EQ--her third as leader--offers a slightly different view of a vocalist fast becoming one of the music's ...