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Kelly Jefferson

Toronto-based saxophonist, composer and educator Kelly Jefferson has a Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Kelly has performed with the The National Arts Centre Orchestra, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Maria Schneider, Bill Holman, Ray Anderson, Kenny Werner, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Al Jarreau, Michel LeGrand, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade, as well as Ray Brown, Sonny Fortune, Randy Brecker, Renee Rosnes, Johnny Mathis, Russell Malone, Joey DeFrancesco, and Dee Dee Bridgewater, among others. Kelly has toured extensively in Canada, the United States, Japan, Thailand, Europe, South Korea and China, including a nine-month tour in 2000 as the tenor saxophonist with legendary trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. The Kelly Jefferson Quartet release Next Exit, was nominated for a 2011 Juno Award for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year

Your Requests

By Laila Biali

Label: Empress Music Group (North America) / ACT Music (Europe) / CORE PORT (Japan)
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bye Bye Blackbird; Blame It On My Youth; But Not For Me; My Funny Valentine; My Favorite Things; Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars); Pennies from Heaven; Autumn Leaves; The Nearness of You; All the Things You Are.

Choices

By William Carn

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Breathe In; The Inertia of Complacency; Heroyim Slava; Get Up; Goodbye Old Freind; The gift; Breathe Out.

Bye Bye Blackbird

September 1, 2023

Album: Your Requests
By Laila Biali
Label: Empress Music Group (North America) / ACT Music (Europe) / CORE PORT (Japan)
Released: 2023
Duration: 4:18

Laila Biali: Your Requests

by Dan Bilawsky
May 16, 2023

While the jazz pipeline produces plenty of artists who pay no mind to an audience's interests, those types--figures with tunnel vision, in many if not most ways--rarely reach their full potential. Instead, it's the musicians who make it a point to communicate who tend to forge the strongest bonds with those on the receiving end. Laila ...

Get Up

February 22, 2023

Album: Choices
By William Carn
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:01

Neil Swainson: Fire In The West

by Jack Bowers
January 17, 2023

It's hard to believe that 35 years have flown by between the release of bassist Neil Swainson's debut album, 49th Parallel (Concord Jazz), and his second, Fire in the West, recorded in November 2021 and released nine months later. But Swainson was hardly in hibernation during those years, as he has been one of Canada's busiest ...

Willliam Carn: Choices

by Dan McClenaghan
January 13, 2023

The short tune “Breathe" opens Choices, sounding like something holy, in a futuristic, science-fiction way. This is how Canadian trombonist William Carn introduces his album. It is a “do it from home," mostly remotely recorded set, reminiscent—to go back over half a century— of Paul McCartney's first solo album McCartney (Apple Records, 1970). McCartney's impetus for ...

Fire In The West

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fire In The West; Fool's Gold; Cascades; Standing Back; Fell Among Thieves; Kyushu; Late Afternoon; Near North; Gone Away; Silver Mine

All In

Label: Stubby Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: All In; One Step Ahead; Wait, What?; Watch Your Step; Five's Company; COVID Blues; Walk The Walk; Strange Days; Inside Out; Let's Play.