Results for "Ethan Ardelli"

Ethan Ardelli

The Nimmons Tribute: Volume 1 - To The Nth

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2021

The big news in Canadian jazz circles in 2019 was that musician and educator Phil Nimmons had retired—at age ninety-six. His decision marked the end of several eras that began more than seventy years ago and included forty-six years as a music teacher at the University of Toronto, ten acclaimed recordings as leader of his own ...

Volume 1 - To The Nth

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Nufsicisum; Night Crawler; Harbours (from the Atlantic Suite); Swing Softly; Holly; Sands of Time; Rista’s Vista; Liese.

Thanks for Something

January 6, 2019

Album: The Island of Form
By Ethan Ardelli
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Duration: 05:54

The Island of Form

By Ethan Ardelli

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Agua; Les Calanques; Accretion; The Serpentine Path; 5:55 AM; Dunraven; Thanks for Something; Shangri-La Pearl

Sean Moran, James Banner’s Usine and More

by Maurice Hogue
December 5, 2018

Exactly one day after the funeral of his beloved wife, and urged by friends and family, Polish saxophonist Leszek Żądło along with bassist Andrzej Cudzich and drummer Janusz Stefański entered Studio Stebo in Krakow, Poland in 1995 and recorded some very emotional and powerful music. Finally released, that recording is the feature on this week's episode ...

Jonathan Finlayson, Master Oogway & More

by Maurice Hogue
November 21, 2018

These days touring is maybe the most critical aspect of a jazz musician's ability to not only promote one's music but also to survive financially. Toronto drummer Ethan Ardelli is proof of that pudding. He's taken his fine quartet and hit the road across Canada for the month of November--23 events from coast to coast--and will ...

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

by John Kelman
June 29, 2017

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...

Johnny Griffith: Dance With The Lady

by Edward Blanco
March 23, 2015

Canadian saxophonist and composer Johnny Griffith is a multi-JUNO Award nominee and leads a vibrant quintet of first-call musicians on their debut recording entitled Dance With The Lady, comprised of nine stellar originals in the contemporary jazz mold exhibiting influences from the great Joe Henderson, Kenny Wheeler, Andrew Hill and Anton Weber among others. Grounded in ...

Johnny Griffith: Dance With The Lady

by Dan Bilawsky
December 9, 2014

Can jazz stay the inventive course while remaining true to its swinging precedents and historical framework(s)? This record makes the argument that it can. Toronto-based saxophonist Johnny Griffith has put together a program of original music that's firmly grounded in tradition, yet his approaches aren't rigidly dogmatic in nature; in other words, this ...