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Donny Kennedy

Saskatchewan Suite

By Fred Stride

Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Place; The First; The Newcomers; The In-Between; September 1905; Saskatchesport; Thank You, Mr. Douglas; Saskatchejazz

September 1905

May 26, 2021

Album: Saskatchewan Suite
By Fred Stride
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:58

Solon McDade: Murals

by Anya Wassenberg
June 6, 2018

An inventive sense of composition characterizes Murals by Toronto-based jazz bassist and composer Solon McDade. As a composer, McDade possesses a dramatic sense of structure that is always multi-layered, and constantly shifting in mood and tone. “He's A Problem In The Locker Room" intertwines tenor and alto sax over a driving drum and busy ...

Joshua Rager Nonet: Jondo

by Jack Bowers
September 21, 2017

It's hard to decide what to make of this. Canadian-based composer / pianist Joshua Rager has assembled a splendid corps of musicians, nine in all (plus trumpeter Andy King on the three-part “Prodigal Son Suite"), to perform seven of the leader's original themes, one by Andre White and another by the Hollywood songwriting team of Al ...

Joe Sullivan Big Band: Unfamiliar Surroundings

by Jack Bowers
August 10, 2017

Unfamiliar Surroundings, a well-designed two-CD set by trumpeter Joe Sullivan's all-star ensemble from north of the border, consists of three disparate suites, two on Disc 1, the other on Disc 2. If the surroundings seem unfamiliar, the music is not, as it honors the legendary bellwethers of the Big Band Era without echoing any of them. ...