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Canadian-born clarinetist, saxophonist, vocalist and educator Evan Arntzen is both a powerful soloist and a keenly attuned musical collaborator with ears for days. He has developed a uniquely expressive sound as an improviser on his instruments that Grammy Award-Winning writer Ricky Riccardi calls “the very definition of timeless.”

Evan was born and raised in East Vancouver, Canada, about as far away from New Orleans as one can be in North America, and yet it is the music of the Crescent City that sparked Evan’s musical journey. A third generation musician, Evan began learning New-Orleans-style clarinet from his grandfather, Lloyd Arntzen, at the age of seven. The first melodies he learned to play were blues, all from great Black American composers, such as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton.

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Live At Jazz At Lincoln Center

By Catherine Russell

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Now You’re Talkin’ My Language; Never Too Old To Swing; I Just Refuse to Sing the Blues; I Like Pie, I Like Cake; You Ain’t Livin’ Right; Long About Midnight; Keep Your Mind On Me; Old Man River; F’ Taint One Thing It’s Another; You Can’t Pull The Wool Over My Eyes; Everybody Loves My Baby.

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Treasury Volume 3

By Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Minnie the Mermaid; Canal Street Blues; Alice Blue Gown; Take Me Back; Frog-i-More Rag; Mabel’s Dream; Kansas City Stomp; Louisiana Fairy Tale; Buddy’s Habits; Memphis Blues; Black Bottom Stomp.

Article: Album Review

Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 3

Read "Treasury Volume 3" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 6, 2026

When it comes to ragtime jazz, pianist, historian, author, and cultural preservationist Terry Waldo literally wrote the book. Said book is This Is Ragtime (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., 1976), widely regarded as the most thorough and authoritative guide to one of modern jazz's early precursors. Treasury, Volume 3 is the last in a trilogy of ...

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Treasury, Volume 2

By Terry Waldo

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Guess Who’s in Town; Snake Rag; Wabash Blues; Muscle Shoals; Smiles; Get Out and Get Under the Moon; The Smiler; Sweet Sue; Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down; Original Rags; Viper Mad.

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Swingin' Uptown

By Eyal Vilner

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Chicken an’ Dumplings; Bumpy Tour Bus; Swingin’ Uptown; Tell Me Pretty Baby; I Want Coffee; Is You Is or Is You Ain’t; Tea for Two; Lobby Call Blues; Blue Skies; Don’t You Feel My Leg; I Love the Rhythm in a Riff; I Don’t Want to Be Kissed (By Anyone Else But You); Swing Brother Swing; Coffee Bean Stomp Jubilee; Hellzapoppin’; Afternoon at Smalls.

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From The Pen Of...

By Scott Hamilton

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Night Spot; Queen's Pawn; It's A Human Race; Rabbit's Habit; Up In Steve's Room; Why Am I Blue?; Waltz For Willi; Our Blues; For Your Love; Ol' Bill's Blues; Theme.

Article: Album Review

Fraser MacPherson: From The Pen Of...

Read "From The Pen Of..." reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 11, 2022

The late tenor saxophonist Fraser MacPherson was well-known in western Canada and elsewhere for his brilliance—but as player, not a writer. In fact, according to MacPherson's son Guy, who wrote the excellent liner notes to From the Pen of..., his father wrote barely a dozen or so original compositions, almost all of which are included on ...

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Looking North

By Amanda Tosoff

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Past Grapplin'

by Patrick Burnette
July 22, 2021

Since the seventies, it's arguable that most jazz musicians work in “old" idioms (even if they mix and match them in new ways), but this episode's artists each take on aspects of jazz's past that seem, well, more past than most. Sometimes the commitment to the older idiom is complete, sometimes it comes and goes, but ...