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The Island of Form

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
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
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
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
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 ...
'Til Now Is Secret

By Nancy Walker
Label: Addo Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: 01) 'Til Now Is Secret (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
02) Night On Earth (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
03) Arctic Willow (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
04) Folding (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
05) Shade Of Many Shades (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
06) Mock Turtle (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
07) Luna Llena (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
08) Buzz Theory (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
09) Chemin des Cascades (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
10) I Read It Somewhere (Nancy Walker - SOCAN)
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Johnny Griffith: Dance With The Lady

by Dan Bilawsky
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 ...
Jazz Quanta April

by C. Michael Bailey
April is no more the cruelest month than the moon is made of cheese. For consideration this month we have nine recordings from far and wide: Antonio Adolfo to Little Feat far and wide. Antonio Adolfo Rio, Choro, Jazz AAM Music 2014 Before there was ...
Matt Newton: Within Reach

by Dan Bilawsky
The piano only has 88 keys but an infinite number of possibilities are trapped within those black and white beauties. The instrument just sits and waits for the right people to come along and discover these yet-to-be-heard sounds. Judging from this album, Matt Newton is one of the right people. On Within Reach, ...
Nancy Walker: New Hieroglyphics

by John Kelman
Amidst an overcrowded community, even the cream of the crop has difficulty getting heard beyond their own locales. A regular visitor to relatively nearby Ottawa, Toronto-based Nancy Walker is an Ottawa Jazz Festival regular as part of John Geggie's trio at the late night jam sessions--also participating on the bassist's recent Across the Sky (Plunge, 2010), ...