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Julian Borkowski

Meets Brian Charette

By Brian Charette

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Equestrian Interlude; Don’t Call Before 10; Lado a Lado; As Luck Would Have It; The Sorcerer; Shimmy!; Oh Brother; Colour Contrast; Honeymoon Phase; The Same Old You with the Same Old Blues.

Vancouver Jazz Orchestra Meets Brian Charette

By Brian Charette

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Equestrian Interlude; Don't Call Before 10; Lado a Lado; As Luck Would Have It; The Sorcerer; Shimmy !; Oh Brother; Colour Contrast; Honeymoon Phase; The Same Old You With The Same Old Blues.

Ardeshir: Introducing Ardeshir

by Jack Bowers
July 9, 2026

For more than 35 years, starting in the mid-1950s, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers set the gold standard for small-group hard bop jazz in the U.S. and around the world, a benchmark at which Canadian tenor saxophonist Ardeshir Pourkeramati's charismatic quintet/quartet takes dead aim on the leader's superlative debut recording, Introducing Ardeshir. This ...

Neil Gray: In the Streets

by Pierre Giroux
February 15, 2026

Neil Gray's In The Streets is a drummer-led session that, in its traditional sense, understands the purpose of records: to document a working conception of jazz rooted in lineage, discipline, and shared memory. Seven of the eight tracks were composed by Gray and serve as portraits of people, places, and moments, conceived not as abstractions but ...

Vancouver Jazz Orchestra: Meets Brian Charette

by Jack Bowers
January 17, 2026

Through the years, Canada has produced an impressive number of world-renowned big bands including Rob McConnell's peerless Boss Brass, the Toronto and Winnipeg Jazz Orchestras, those led by trombonist Dave McMurdo, pianist Jill Townsend and trumpeter Steve McDade, and one of the world's foremost undergraduate bands, Montreal's McGill University Jazz Ensemble. On its debut recording, Meets ...

In the Streets

By Neil Gray

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Frankie’s Ghost; For Those in the Back; It Wasn’t Was It; Latin Fiasco; Somewhere; Shotgun Blues; Seymour Street Shuffle; Night and Day.

Neil Gray: In the Streets

by Jack Bowers
December 13, 2025

Saxophonist Cory Weeds, ever the entrepreneur, has never been one to let a clear opportunity raise his antenna without a response. When Weeds spots a promising jazz musician--especially one from his native Canada--he has been known to make the sort of proposal that is all but impossible to refuse. For example, Weeds may say he will ...