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Don (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist,vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recordingengineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940.After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bassand the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taughton all instruments. In Vancouver 1960-5 he was sideman toChris Gage (playing bass or vibraphone) and Dave Robbins(bass) and accompanied the visiting US jazzmen BarneyKessel, John Handy, and others in local nightclubs. With thedrummer Terry Clarke he joined Handy's quintet in the USAin 1965, touring widely and making two LPs, one of which,Live at Monterey, was among the most popular jazzrecordings of the 1960s.

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Soft Winds And Roses

By Diana Panton

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Your Song; They Long to be Close to You; Secret Heart; Sweet Happy Life; A Wish (Valentine); How Deep is Your Love; Pussywillows, Cat-Tails; Here, There, and Everywhere; You and I; And I Love You So; Until It's Time for You to Go; Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbyew; Snow; Both Side Now.

Article: Album Review

Al Muirhead: Still Cookin' at 90: The Canada Sessions, Volume II

Read "Still Cookin' at 90: The Canada Sessions, Volume II" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 21, 2025

"Twelve years ago," bassist Kodi Hutchinson writes in the liner notes to The Canada Sessions, Volume II, “I found myself on a bandstand with 78-year-old trumpeter Al Muirhead. I remember thinking, why has this amazing musician never recorded under his own name?" Fast forward a dozen years, to 2025, and Muirhead, still going strong at age ...

Article: Album Review

Diana Panton: Soft Winds And Roses

Read "Soft Winds And Roses" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
April 12, 2025

Diana Panton has long been an artist of quiet yet undeniable depth, uniquely transforming melodies into deeply personal narratives. On Soft Winds and Roses, she focuses on modern classics from the 1960s onward, drawing from the songbooks of Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Gordon Lightfoot, Lennon and McCartney, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, among many others. In ...

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The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces

Read "Happy Faces" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 12, 2025

Even though its renowned leader and trombonist passed away in 2005, and the Dave Robbins Big Band's Happy Faces was recorded some forty years before that, the music on this remarkable album remains as fresh and provocative as today's front-page news. The Indiana-born Robbins, a legend among big-band artists and enthusiasts in Vancouver, British Columbia, and ...

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Soft Winds and Roses

By Diana Panton

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Your Song (Elton John/Bernie Taupin); (They Long to Be) Close to You (Burt Bacharach/Hal David); Secret Heart (Ronald Eldon Sexsmith); Sweet Happy Life (Luiz Bonfa/Norman Gimbel/Antonio Maria); A Wish (Valentine) (Fred Hersch/Norma Winstone); How Deep Is Your Love (Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb); Pussywillows, Cat-Tails (Gordon Lightfoot); Here, There and Everywhere (John Lennon/Paul McCartney); You and I (Norman Gimbel/Vinicius de Moraes/Carlos Lyra); And I Love You So (Don McLean); Until It's Time for You to Go (Buffy Sainte-Marie); Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen); Snow (Randy Newman); Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell).

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Julieta Eugenio, Lynne Arriale and Teddy Edwards

by Jerome Wilson
May 15, 2024

This show features current releases by musicians such as Julieta Eugenio, Lynne Arriale, and Owen Broder as well as older sounds from Teddy Edwards, Lisa Sokolov, and Carlos Santana. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 ...

Article: Interview

Lorne Lofsky: Steward of the Canadian Guitar Tradition

by John Chacona
April 17, 2024

Guitarist Lorne Lofsky rocketed to fame when It Could Happen To You (Pablo Records, 1981), his debut release as a leader, was produced by fellow Canadian Oscar Peterson. Lofsky has since toured and recorded with a wide range of musicians from all around the world, including Peterson, but his hometown of Toronto has been his base ...

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Bells... Now and Then

By Don Thompson

Label: Modica Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Circles; Caribe; September; Stratford Stomp; Bells; Suite: I. Kyoto; II. MoodDance; III. Red Dragonfly; IV. Nexus; V. Chant; Days Gone By.

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One More For The Road

By Guido Basso

Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2023
Track listing: Two for the Road; Gentle Rain; Blue Monk; My Ideal; You're Nearer; Bye Bye Blues; The Good Life; East of the Sun; Second Chance; Last Night When We Were Young; Ill Wind; Ballad of the Sad Young Men.