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Triio: Six-ish Plateaus
by Dan McClenaghan
Canadian bassist Alex Fournier takes inspiration from some of the best, most notably bassist/cellist/composer Andrew Downing and bassist/composer Michael Formanek. Both of these mentors sit outside the mainstream, but not far off, within spitting distance we might say. Six-ish Plateaus, by Fournier's Triio—which is not a trio but rather a sextet--explores the hybrid of written material and energized freedom with two reeds, guitar and vibraphone, drums and bass line-up. Distinction of sound is a key here. The ...
read moreDan Pitt Quintet: Wrongs
by Troy Dostert
Maybe it's a case of false humility, or a stab at irony, but guitarist Dan Pitt seems to prefer self-deprecating album titles. The Toronto-based musician's 2019 trio release, Fundamentally Flawed (Self-Produced), featured bassist Alex Fournier and drummer Nick Fraser, and his current offering, Wrongs, adds saxophonists Naomi McCarroll-Butler and Patrick Smith to the mix. For an artist who actually gets it right most of the time, these releases could have been more accurately named. But we can forgive him that, ...
read moreDennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra: Windward Bound
by Jack Bowers
Windward Bound, the debut recording by the Toronto-based Dennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra, consists of a six-part suite “for jazz orchestra and multiple woodwind soloist." It is perhaps more than coincidental that Kwok, who wrote and arranged the sequence of tone poems based in part on his teen-age memories of sailing on Lake Ontario, also plays alto, tenor, soprano and baritone saxophones, oboe, clarinet, flute, alto flute, piccolo and bass clarinet. In other words, multiple woodwinds. Versatile as ...
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Wrongs
From: WrongsBy Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Part III. A Flat Boat is a Fast Boat
From: Windward BoundBy Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Part VI. Red Right Returning
From: Windward BoundBy Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Part V. Elegy
From: Windward BoundBy Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Windward Bound
From: Windward BoundBy Naomi McCarroll-Butler
Windward Bound
From: Windward BoundBy Naomi McCarroll-Butler
