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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Live? From the Village Vanguard

Read "Live? From the Village Vanguard" reviewed by Patrick Burnette

by Patrick Burnette

There are many storied jazz venues, but for a great recorded legacy, none quite matches the Village Vanguard. So many epochal improvised moments put to tape! So many clinking wine glasses captured for eternity! Such a matchless, smoky atmosphere of creation in the heat of the moment! (Insert record scratch here.) The boys don't look at ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Ivan Lins, Donald Harrison & Brad Turner

Read "Ivan Lins, Donald Harrison & Brad Turner" reviewed by Joe Dimino

by Joe Dimino

We begin the 821st Episode of Neon Jazz with multi-instrumentalist Brad Turner and music from his 2023 release The Magnificent. That tune kicks off a full hour of music dedicated to the new jazz. From there, we hear from Kurt Elling, Donald Harrison, Ron Blake and Ivan Lins. We complete the circle with Jon-Erik Kellso live ...

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Article: Album Review

Brad Turner Quintet: The Magnificent

Read "The Magnificent" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

Brad Turner's album The Magnificent is a sonic gem on which he invites listeners on a musical journey which effortlessly balances tradition and innovation. Comprising a wish-list of stellar musicians, including guitarist Peter Bernstein, bassist Neil Swainson, drummer Quincy Davis and, on four tracks, tenor saxophonist Cory Weeds, the band gathered together to record a session ...

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Article: Album Review

Daniel Hersog: Open Spaces

Read "Open Spaces" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Locked down and socially distanced during the pandemic, composer-arranger Daniel Hersog had an interesting idea: rearrange some well-known and well-loved folk songs, most with Canadian roots, for jazz orchestra and throw in a handful of his own original compositions with a folk-tune ambience. The result is Open Spaces: Folk Songs Reimagined, the sophomore album by Hersog's ...

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Shenandoah

Album: Open Spaces
By Daniel Hersog
Label: Cellar Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 8:17

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Article: Album Review

Neil Swainson: Fire In The West

Read "Fire In The West" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

It's hard to believe that 35 years have flown by between the release of bassist Neil Swainson's debut album, 49th Parallel (Concord Jazz), and his second, Fire in the West, recorded in November 2021 and released nine months later. But Swainson was hardly in hibernation during those years, as he has been one of Canada's busiest ...

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Fire In The West

By Neil Swainson

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fire In The West; Fool's Gold; Cascades; Standing Back; Fell Among Thieves; Kyushu; Late Afternoon; Near North; Gone Away; Silver Mine

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A Night at the Espresso

By Tom Keenlyside

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Skweet; Amor, O Misterio; All of You; Speak Low; Ghost of a Chance; Garden Bay; But Not for Me; Lazy Afternoon; Cherokee; Pelo Amor de Musica Triste; Dave.

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Fun House

By David Blake

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Jon, No Jon; Devil Stick; Play Dead; Where’s There; Flowers for Kenny; The Single Petal of a Rose; Bernie Does It; Fun House; All to Say.

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Article: Album Review

Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...

Read "From The Pen Of..." reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

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 ...


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