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Ola Onabule Releases "Seven Shades Darker"
Soul and Jazz, Singer and songwriter, Ola Onabule returns to British Columbia this November for his third visit to Canada after his magnificent debut in 2009 on the main stage of the Montreal Jazz Festival on their 30th Anniversary. Ola Onabule will perform material from his 7th studio album, Seven Shades Darker, which will be released ...
The Ron Paley Big Band shuffles musical styles on bold new album
The Ron Paley Big Band is so big that not one musical style can contain them. On their latest album Bring 'Em Back!, the group accomplishes the nearly impossible task of marrying the Big Band sound with the unexpected. Considering that one of the record's most startling tracks, “Hot Rock Big Band," manages to stitch together ...
Prince: "Welcome 2 Canada" Tour
CANADIAN TOUR STARTS NOVEMBER 25 IN TORONTO Prince has announced a series of Canadian tour dates dubbed “Welcome 2 Canada." The 11-date trek kicks off with two nights at Air Canada Centre in Toronto on November 25-26, and will hit Halifax, Montreal, Winnipeg, Edmonton and more. The tour ends on December 17 in Victoria, BC. Tickets ...
The SFJAZZ Collective: Toronto, Canada, October 15, 2011
by Alain Londes
The SF Jazz CollectiveKoerner HallToronto, CanadaOctober 15, 2011 The eight-piece, all-star SFJAZZ Collective rolled into town with its current project, dedicated to the music of Stevie Wonder, its original arrangements reflecting the Collective's personality. Part of a successful group of this magnitude is the talent, respect, and chemistry that helps everyone ...
SFJAZZ Collective: Ottawa, Canada, October 13, 2011
by John Kelman
SFJAZZ Collective The Music of Stevie Wonder Centrepoint Theatre, Ottawa, Canada October 13, 2011 In its eight-year existence, the SFJAZZ Collective has gone from triumph to triumph, each year choosing a specific artist to honor--past years including pianist Herbie Hancock and saxophonists Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Wayne Shorter--and ...
Thom Gossage Other Voices: In Other Words
by Matt Marshall
According to drummer Thom Gossage, the tracks on this, the fifth release by his Other Voices ensemble, are launched from a single figure--anything from a simple melodic line, to fully composed pieces of music, rhythm scores, electronic soundscapes, chants and poems--that are subsequently abstracted through an assemblage process. The idea came to him after viewing a ...
Michael Kaeshammer: Kaeshammer
by C. Michael Bailey
It doesn't take a Charles Darwin to realize that the true evolutionary inheritors of Frank Sinatra's and Peggy Lee's brand of “popular" music were Elton John and Billy Joel, and not Harry Connick, Jr. or Michael Buble, the latter being more keepers of the flame than the former innovators. Had popular music not dissembled into the ...
Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 7-11, 2011
by Sara Villa
Guelph Jazz Festival, Colloquium & Nuit Blanche Guelph, Canada September 7-11, 2011 As Prez used to say, if you are a good improviser you are able to tell a soulful story. What happens, then, when some of the most experimental improvisers from Canada, Australia, Norway, and England (among the others) are involved in ...
Andrzej Serafin: L.S.D.
by Jerry D'Souza
L.S.D. makes a significant impact when the proponents of the acronym--vibraphonist Andrzej Serafin, harmonicist Robert Lenert and saxophonist Staszek Domarski--come together. The music they play evolves from different approaches, an ambient point of view drawing in both jazz and blues. Serafin was a founding member of Editions Quartet and the blues-rock group Blue Ink. ...
Pianist Lorna MacLachlan's fourth album expresses bittersweet aftertaste of life's cycle of change
"So I'm writing you this letter/Because my heart is on the ground," pianist Lorna MacLachlan sings on “I'm Done," a powerfully sad track from her fourth album, Time 4 Change. The crestfallen lyrics capture the theme of the record, which is about moving on. According to MacLachlan, the words were written right after her father had ...
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