Results for "Dave Laing"

Dave Laing

Woven Dreams

By Lara Driscoll

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Autumn in New York; Siblings; Airport Limbo; Forgiving - Black Dog Skirts Away: I. Forgiving; Forgiving - Black Dog Skirts Away: II: Black Dog; Forgiving - Black Dog Skirts Away: III. Skirts Away; O Morro Não Tem Vez (Favela); Mamy Adieu; Trespassers; Isfahan; Just One of Those Things; ECMT Intro; ECMT Blues; Woven Dreams.

Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein

By Mike Rud

Label: Bent River Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Salome's Dance; Petroglyph; Leonard Cohen; Shuffle Pants; Parc Lafontaine; I'm Getting Sentimental Over You; A Man of the World; Amsterdam Avenue; Blood Wolf Moon Blues.

Mike Rud: Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein

by Dan Bilawsky
June 9, 2020

Calling guitarist Mike Rud one of the best kept secrets on his instrument is only a bit off the mark. Rud's Notes on Montreal (Self Produced) took home a Juno Award, after all, so his presence has most certainly been felt in his native Canada. Yet his work and name haven't traveled like they should, making ...

Lara Driscoll: Woven Dreams

by Jordan Penney
May 28, 2020

Woven Dreams is the debut album of pianist and Illinois-based university instructor, Lara Driscoll. The disc's uncluttered piano, bass and drums format encourages the clarity and luminosity of her compositions to shine forth, and they do. The format also draws attention to the richness of the group's internal dynamics. The influence of Bill Evans ...

Sam Kirmayer: Opening Statement

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2017

Whenever a group of young musicians (in this case a guitar-led quartet from Montreal) makes its recording debut, a number of questions quickly arise. First and foremost, can they play? Check. Do they swing? Check. Is the music bright and refreshing? Check. Are they sharp and enthusiastic? Check. Do they blend well as a team? Check ...

Nancy Lane: Let Me Love You

by Geannine Reid
November 14, 2015

Nancy Lane's vocal quality looms large in the crowded world of jazz vocalists, and with her recording, Let Me Love You, her melodic delivery will attest that she belongs to a small subset within the field. Lane is accompanied by a talented core of musicians that perfectly support her formidable skills to deliver a ...

Jason Stillman: Prelude

by Jack Bowers
May 31, 2015

Alto saxophonist Jason Stillman's Montreal-based quartet makes its recorded debut on Prelude, a sunny and engaging blend of Stillman originals and jazz standards whose spacious boundaries provide ample room for ardent blowing, especially by Stillman and pianist Josh Rager. Although the group has been a working unit for more than five years, Stillman waited until the ...

Joe Sullivan: Whisky Jack Waltz

by Geannine Reid
June 21, 2014

Trumpeter, composer, arranger and educator Joe Sullivan grew up in a large Franco-Ontarian family in the Northern Ontario town of Timmins. As a youth, music was a part of daily life. Sullivan began his formal training on piano and at the age of fifteen he also started playing the trumpet. In his formative years, Sullivan led ...

Joe Sullivan Big Band: Northern Ontario Suite

by Jack Bowers
January 20, 2014

The latest recording by Canadian trumpeter Joe Sullivan's big band is built around his picturesque six-movement Northern Ontario Suite, whose purpose is to portray musically the sights, sounds and ambience of Sullivan's frosty corner of the world including the often spectacular aurora borealis ("northern lights"). The suite is preceded by a pair of Sullivan's engaging compositions ...