Results for "Dave Laing"

Dave Laing

Kinda Out West

By Aretha Tillotson

Label: Bent River Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jill of All; Kinda Out West; Cricklewood Lane; Lullaby to Those Before; Sphere of Influence; 35; Gauche Caviar; Sad Junie (To Highway Jake); Kinda Out West (Alt Take);

Aretha Tillotson: Sad Junie (to Highway Jake)

by John Chacona
December 11, 2025

If the average fan living south of the 49th Parallel knows anything about jazz in Canada, it might begin and end with Oscar Peterson and Diana Krall. Yes, Toronto is emerging as a great jazz city and there are all those players from Nanaimo, but in between, nothing, right? Bassist Aretha Tillotson is here to explode that ...

No Hugs

By PJ Perry

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Too Soon Gone; Agoraphobia; So Long; March Of The Covidians; No Hugs; The Kestrel; Scaredy Cat; Gring's Dilemma.

Prismatic

By Jim Head

Label: Bent River Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Stone; Dawnstruck; Blue Shift; Showtime: Potter's Wheel; Prismatic; Waking Dream; State of the Union

PJ Perry: No Hugs

by Pierre Giroux
December 21, 2022

PJ Perry is a survivor. Now, in 2022, eighty-one years old, he has been playing saxophone since he was fourteen, when he joined his father's dance band as a baritone saxophonist. During the course of his lengthy career, he has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and a couple of European cities, before settling in Edmonton, Alberta. ...

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 ...