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Born in Toronto, Canada on June 4, 1971, Grant Stewart was exposed to the music of Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray and Coleman Hawkins by his father, a high-school English teacher and semiprofessional guitarist. Father and son often played together for hours on end. It was through these early experiences and his father's encouragement that Stewart first developed a strong ear for melody, style, and improvisation. He began with the alto saxophone at age 10, and when he was 14 his first teacher, noted Toronto bandleader Pete Schofield, invited him to play professionally in Schofield's Big Band. At 17 he switched to the tenor saxophone and was soon playing with such master saxophonists as Pat Labarbara and Bob Mover

Album

Too Soon, Too Late

By Simon Osuna

Label: Fresh Sounds Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Too Soon, Too Late; In Walked Ray; Skipper's Blues; In Undertone; The Lamp Is Low; 'Tis Autumn; Poor Butterfly

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Hangin' In

By Joan Fort

Label: 45Jazz
Released: 2026
Track listing: Javastraat; A Day At The Kings County; 5 In 1 Flat; Miradouro Da Pederneira; Up, Over & Out; Hangin' In; TJI; She; Philly Twist

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Hey Love!

By Lucy Yeghiazaryan

Label: La Reserve
Released: 2026
Track listing: Next Spring; Hey Love! / I Thought About You; Tonight I Shall Sleep With A Smile on my Face; Blow Top Blues; Love is a Simple Thing; Witchcraft; Lover Man; Loads of Love; Come Dance with Me; Dedicated to You.

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Saxophonist Jacob Chung

by Sanford Josephson
September 1, 2026

Growing up in Toronto, Jacob Chung was introduced to jazz by his grandfather. “He had a record player," Chung recalled, “and he had Dave Brubeck's Time Out album. He also liked Duke Ellington and Ben Webster." Chung was playing classical piano when he entered middle school, “and they started giving you wind instruments. I ...

Article: Interview

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Serious And Seriously Talented

by R.J. DeLuke
July 31, 2026

Lucy Yeghiazaryan is one of the most compelling jazz vocalists to emerge in recent years. Especially in New York, where she regularly performs in the city's jazz clubs, audiences have been drawn to her rich, powerful tone and her ability to bring an enchanting emotional depth to every lyric. Those qualities, along with her ...

Article: Album Review

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Hey Love!

Read "Hey Love!" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 29, 2026

It is always a treat to hear a singer who trusts the song. On Hey Love!, recorded at Van Gelder Studios in October 2025, Lucy Yeghiazaryan takes the direct route, usually the most forgiving. There are no conceptual detours here, no attempts to modernize the Great American Songbook by dismantling it. Instead, Yeghiazaryan takes control of ...

Article: Album Review

Lucy Yeghiazaryan: Hey Love!

Read "Hey Love!" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
June 19, 2026

The excellent New York-based singer Lucy Yeghiazaryan and her stellar band may have you thinking back to Carmen McRae in the 1950s as you listen to Hey Love!--groups with Wendell Marshall, Kenny Clarke, and other hard bop-era musicians. On her 2026 release, Yeghiazaryan has the ubiquitous Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums, with ...

Article: Album Review

Joan Fort: Hangin' In

Read "Hangin' In" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 13, 2026

Hangin' In is the second recording under his name by Spanish-born, Netherlands-based guitarist Joan Fort who shows on every one of the album's nine radiant and alluring themes--six of which he wrote--why his star is rapidly rising in the jazz world at large. Fort, who was not yet thirty years old when the album ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Naoya Obura, Julian lage, Betty Bryant, Alexa Tarantino and more

by Benjamin Boddie
January 29, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Ian Dogole, Naoya Ogura, Julian Lage, Betty Bryant, Joe Magnarelli, Alexa Tarantino, Umoja, Kenny Barron, Dave Wilson, Scott Routenberg, Gregory Groover Jr., Michael Dease, Scott Silbert, Tobin Mueller, Anthony Stanco, Grant Stewart, Harold Lopez--Nussa, Stevie Holland, Sacha Boutros, Kelsey Mines, Noah Preminger, Steve Houghton, Joe Elefante,Peter Paulsen, Angela Verbrugge, Roderick ...