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Alex Samaras

Earth Voices

By AMANDA TOSOFF

Label: Empress Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. A Dream Within a Dream (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow) 2. Sonnet 49 (feat. Robin Dann) 3. Here and Heaven (feat. Michelle Willis & Alex Samaras) 4. Birdwings (feat. Alex Samaras) 5. Oh, Life (feat. Laila Biali & Alex Samaras) 6. The Fiddle and the Drum (feat. Lydia Persaud) 7. To a Stranger (feat. Felicity Williams w/ strings) 8. Finis (feat. Emilie-Claire Barlow) Vocalists and composers listed above. Music arranged by Amanda Tosoff

Finis

Album: Earth Voices
By AMANDA TOSOFF
Label: Empress Music Group
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:52

New Releases From Lisa Hilton, Foster Joseph and Francesca Remigi With Celebrations for Carole King, Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jutta Hipp and More

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This broadcast begins the February fundraiser for the station and includes new releases from pianist Lisa Hilton, vocalist Foster Joseph and drummer Francesca Remigi with birthday shout outs to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jutta Hipp, Carole King (nominated a second time for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Bettye LaVette and Melody Gardot, among others.

Amanda Tosoff: Earth Voices

By DAN BILAWSKY

Building off the lure of language planted in Amanda Tosoff's Juno-nominated Words (Empress Music Group, 2016), this sixth album from the Toronto-based composer and pianist waves poetic in wondrous fashion. Pairing different guest vocalists and collections of musicians with personalized takes on Parnassian beauty of varied sorts, Tosoff cements the bonds between earthly voices and heavenly ...

Speak Your Name

By TODD PENTNEY

Label: CD Baby
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Pink Elephants (3:44) 2. Wanderlust (4:29) 3. Speak Your Name (3:05) 4. Downpour (4:11) 5. The Collective Perspective (3:40) 6. Rebirth (3:20) 7. Emanation (1:53) 8. FTL (2:43) 9. Gradients (1:12) 10. Tangerines (3:52)

Wanderlust

Album: Speak Your Name
By TODD PENTNEY
Label: CD Baby
Released: 2020
Duration: 04:29

Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School: Aftermath

By JACK BOWERS

Aftermath is the second album by composer / arranger / tenor saxophonist Chelsea McBride's Toronto-based Socialist Night School. It's a bright-eyed ensemble, comprised for the most part of young musicians who are fully on board with McBride's contemporary approach to big-band jazz (think Muhal Richard Abrams, Julius Hemphill, Darcy James Argue or Charles Mingus with a ...

Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School: The Twilight Fall

By JACK BOWERS

As is the case with her largely anomalous music, composer / arranger Chelsea McBride's Toronto-based Socialist Night School is less a brick-and-mortar academy than a malleable concept, open to almost whatever definition the viewer (or listener) has in mind. McBride doesn't simply “write" music, she “sees" it, much as a painter visualizes what is to adorn ...

Elizabeth Shepherd: Signal

By MARK F. TURNER

Montreal-based singer Elizabeth Shepherd gently stirs jazz with an underground pop aesthetic in Signal. Similar to the fresh styles of contemporaries such as Esperanza Spalding and Gretchen Parlato, Shepherd's appeal is heard in her multifaceted gifts as a songwriter, musician, and composer; attributes which garnered her a Juno Award nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album for ...