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Bernie Senensky

Toronto keyboardist Bernie Senensky has earned the reputation of being one of Canada's premier jazz artists. His playing has been featured internationally in many concerts & festivals, and he is recognized and respected as one of the foremost jazz pianists anywhere. He was the only Canadian guest on "Oscar Peterson Presents", a CTV National TV series. He has also been a guest on Marian McPartland's renowned Public Radio show "Piano Jazz". In addition, Senensky has been featured on CBC radio and TV, and many of his concerts have been recorded by CBC (Jazz Beat), CJRT-FM (The Jazz Scene, Sound Of Toronto Jazz), and Global-TV (Sounds Impressive) to name a few. He was twice voted "Best Acoustic Pianist" in the Jazz Report Awards, and he won the SOCAN award for "Best Jazz Composition" for his “BLUES FOR CLIFFORD”, a tribute to saxophonist Clifford Jordan. He has quietly compiled a track record of 12 albums as a leader (three of which have received Juno nominations), and a long list of performances alongside jazz's biggest names, including Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Chet Baker, Zoot Sims, Art Pepper, George Coleman, Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, Art Farmer, Ernestine Anderson and Elvin Jones (who called Bernie "one of the finest pianists I have worked with in my career")

Bernie Senensky: Moment to Moment

by Jack Bowers
January 11, 2024

Canadian pianist Bernie Senensky's latest album, Moment to Moment, encompasses two quartet sessions recorded almost twenty years apart: the first in 2001, the second (live) in 2020. While the rhythm sections differ on each, the one constant (aside from Senensky) is the acclaimed tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. If you are planning to have only one constant, ...

Moment to Moment

By Bernie Senensky

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Alexander's Realtime Band; Speak Low; Matchmaker; Moment to Moment; Blues for E.J.; Make Believe; Stand Pat; Alexander's Realtime Band.

Bernie Senensky: Moment to Moment

by Pierre Giroux
December 25, 2023

Bernie Senensky is a nuanced and adaptable pianist. Throughout his career he has shown an unparalleled improvisational approach to the material he chooses that crosses borders and generations. In this current release, entitled Moment to Moment, the music comes from two performance opportunities, from 2001 and 2020, and is anchored simultaneously historically and from the future. ...

Don't Look Back

By Bernie Senensky

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Don't Look Back; I Hear A Rhapsody; Floating; Together; May In June; The Mover; Jump For Joe; The Latest; Danse Encore; One Is Enough; Who Cares.

Dedicated To You

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: When Your Lover Has Gone; Green Dolphin Street; Lush Life; It Could Happen To You; They Say It's Wonderful; Kiss & Run; Autumn Serenade; My Ship; My One And Only Love; Who Cares; Nature Boy; Dedicated To You.

The Path

By Ryan Oliver

Label: Do Right Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Undisputed; In The Paint; Summit; The Path; Blues Down The Stairs; Pockets; Canyon; Don't Look Now

Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...

by Jack Bowers
December 11, 2022

The late tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was well-known in western Canada and elsewhere for his brilliance—but as player, not a writer. In fact, according to MacPherson's son Guy, who wrote the excellent liner notes to From the Pen of..., his father wrote barely a dozen or so original compositions, almost all of which are included on ...

Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...

by Pierre Giroux
October 15, 2022

Tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was an original. Although he was raised in Victoria, British Columbia, he moved to Vancouver early in his career where he remained throughout his working life. He began to build his reputation as a Lester Young-influenced player, and in the mid '70s recorded his first trio album for West End Records with ...

Joe Coughlin: Dedicated To You

by Pierre Giroux
October 6, 2022

Joe Coughlin has been on the Canadian jazz scene since the late 1970s, when he began his performing and recording career in Toronto. . In 1995, he relocated to Vancouver BC where he continues to record and perform. Over the course of his career he has garnered many accolades and on two occasions was given the ...