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Lex French

Born: November, 1983

New Zealand-born jazz trumpet player Lex French, hailed by Radio Canada jazz critic Stanley Pean as “an extraordinary trumpeter,” is fast becoming a bright star on the Canadian jazz scene.

French possesses a unique voice on the trumpet and plays with technical virtuosity and abiding musical inventiveness, often being compared to legendary trumpeters Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and Kenny Wheeler. He is also an internationally sought-after composer and arranger and has recently been commissioned to write works for jazz orchestra, jazz quartet, and string quartet. He holds a Doctorate of Music from McGill University.

Of What Remains

By Melissa Pipe

Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Complainte du vent; La part des anges; Ici, ainsi; Fragment no. 2; Apothecium; Complaint du vent (reprise); Day; Puudutus.

Jim West: 40 Years and Going Strong at Justin Time Records

by Kerilie McDowall
April 4, 2024

Owner of Canada's Justin Time Records, the multi-award-winning Jim West, has brought stellar top performers from the Canadian music scene and the USA to the global stage since 1983 for almost half a century, and that's some heavyweight “cred." To celebrate, the label has crafted a compilation, 40 Years of ...

L'Origine Eclat​ee

By Jean-Marc Hebert

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: La déteinte; L'Origine éclatée; Séquence mouvante; Terre rouge (trio); L'Attente; Deux ombres; Sud-Ouest.

Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains

by Hrayr Attarian
May 19, 2023

On the enchanting Of What Remains, her debut as a leader, Canadian saxophonist and bassoonist Melissa Pipe delightfully blurs the boundaries between jazz and western classical music. Pipe leads a cohesive sextet on seven of her haunting originals, on the theme of time, and an arrangement of Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits' “Puudutus." For instance, ...

La parte des anges

April 30, 2023

Album: Of What Remains
By Melissa Pipe
Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 08:30

Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains

by Dan McClenaghan
April 28, 2023

Montreal-based multi-reedist Melissa Pipe's artistic vision is fully formed. Her debut recording, Of What Remains, features a sextet which explores darkness with deep tones--Pipe plays baritone sax and bassoon here--by delving into temporality, the shifting of time and being, via chamber music reveries and jazz grooves. Noir is a word which comes immediately to ...

Upon First Impression

By Saku Mantere

Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Saku Mantere / Dylan Thomas) 05:50 2. Time (Tom Waits) 06:06 3. Wedding Poem (Saku Mantere / Norman Cristofoli) 03:36 4. Building You, Building Me (Saku Mantere) 04:05 5. Open Secrets (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson / Neil Peart) 06:57 6. Radio Silence (Saku Mantere) 05:07 7. I Think It’s Time to Say Goodbye Again (Stanley Cowell / Debby Randolph) 05:51 8. Countdown (John Coltrane / Saku Mantere) 04:41 9. The Professional (Saku Mantere) 03:47 10. Leap of Faith (Saku Mantere) 04:36

Artifact

By Kate Wyatt

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Artifact; Short Stories; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; Lhotse Face; Antepenultimate; Underwater Chant; Duet

Building You, Building Me

December 18, 2022

Album: Upon First Impression
By Saku Mantere
Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:05