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Tom McMahon's New Release "Spring 2011" Available at Bandcamp.com
Tom McMahon has released a four song EP at Bandcamp. This is the first in what will be a series of releases featuring Ottawa musician and composer Tom McMahon on Baliset with Mike Tremblay on Saxophone and Mark Rehder on drums. A high emphasis on melody and texture, with the unique blending of Baliset and Sax, ...
Crowley Arts Centre: KoSA Arts Centre has a name change
Montreal, Quebec. Effectively immediately, the KoSA Arts Centre is now to be known as the Crowley Arts Centre. The name change comes as a result of a decision to reflect the centre's presence as a general events and arts establishment, that is home to a variety of activities, artists, and groups corporate and private. In addition, ...
2011 Festival Awards - The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Honours Sade, Stanley Clarke, Youssou N'dour, Jean-Pierre Zanella and George Wein
Montreal—This year, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal highlights the exceptional contributions to music made by Sade, Stanley Clarke, Youssou N'Dour, Jean-Pierre Zanella, as well as the remarkable oeuvre of George Wein. During this 32nd edition of the Festival, our winners will be presented, respectively, with the Ella Fitzgerald Award, Miles Davis Award, Antonio Carlos ...
From the basement to the Montréal Jazz Festival: Guitarist Carlos Jiménez' self-taught road to success
On his latest album Undercurrents, guitarist Carlos Jiménez exhibits the cool self-confidence and keen precision of an artist at the top of his game, about as far as it gets from the kid who used to practice in his parents' basement. But every musician has to begin somewhere, and for Jiménez those tireless moments underground provided ...
Kirk MacDonald Quartet: Songbook Vol. 2
by Jerry D'Souza
Saxophonist Kirk MacDonald--an exemplary player, composer, band leader and educator--has established himself as one of Canada's premier jazz musicians. His compositions are geared to mainstream jazz, but he uses several tributaries to blood them and generate nuggets of energy and rumination. MacDonald's integrity as a player is defined by his versatility. He can ...
Jeannette Lambert releases new album of jazz standards
MONTREAL, QC (CANADA)—On May 5th, 2011, Jazz From Rant will release Montreal jazz vocalist Jeannette Lambert's 9th recording as a leader, Born to be Blue (rant 1141), featuring her longtime collaborators, her brother guitarist Reg Schwager, her husband drummer Michel Lambert and bassist Neil Swainson. The recording features a return to the jazz standards Jeannette and ...
David Mott: Dragonhorn
by Karl Ackermann
Baritone saxophonist David Mott has turned out the finest solo sax recording since Anthony Braxton's Wesleyan 12 Altosolos (Hat Hut Records 1992). That is not to suggest that Mott's Dragonhorn is similar to Braxton's particular style. Mott's ten compositions are not given to episodic jumps, vibrations or anything remotely antiseptic. Rather, they are packed with emotion, ...
Additional Security Measures in Place for Robert Plant Show
Ottawa—Additional security measures will be in place for Robert Plant & the Band of Joy's festival-opening performance on June 23. In order to insure the safety and well being of the performers the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival must insist on forbidding the following items from festival grounds: No cans, bottles or refillable containers of any kind ...
New Queuing Policy for 2011 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival
Ottawa (Monday, April 18, 2011)—To better facilitate admission to events at the 2011 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival a handful of new queuing policies have been implemented. For the Fourth Stage and Studio Series there are multiple concerts per evening and single tickets will be sold for each concert. Audiences will be asked to clear the ...
Unprecedented Line-up Revealed
Ottawa (Wednesday, April 11, 2011)—Upholding its original mission, the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival continues to celebrate the over-a-century-old conversation that is Jazz. This year's festival, the 31st incarnation, has brought new but not altogether unfamiliar voices to the fray. Robert Plant & the Band of Joy, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, k.d. lang and The ...
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