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Lorne Lofsky

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Lorne Lofsky is an internationally recognized jazz guitarist. Born and raised in Toronto, he has been playing professionally for the last 42 years. He has played/toured or recorded with a who’s who of the jazz world, including Oscar Peterson, Ed Bickert, Rob McConnell, Chet Baker, Joey DeFrancesco, Pepper Adams, Ray Brown, Neils Henning Orsted Pederson, Rosemary Clooney, Kirk MacDonald, Dave Holland, and many other respected members of the international jazz community.
In addition, he has been a faculty member at York University’s Fine Arts/Music Program since 1978 and also teaches at the Humber College Community Music Program. Lorne is a mainstay of the Toronto jazz scene and performs extensively in the Greater Toronto Area. He has also given clinics/concerts at St. FX University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and McGill University in Montreal.
John Daversa, Eric Dolphy, and Jamie Baum

by Jerome Wilson
This program from June 2021 features music from John Daversa, Fred Hersch, Eric Dolphy, Jakob Bro)), and {{Jamie Baum. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 0:00 Thelonious Monk Monk's Mood" from Thelonious Himself (Riverside) 1:02 The ...
City Lights: The Oscar Peterson Quartet – Live in Munich, 1994

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: There Will Never Be Another You; The Gentle Waltz; Kelly's Blues; Love Ballade; City Lights; You Look
Good To Me; Samba Petite; Satin Doll; Nighttime.
Night Flight

By Barry Elmes
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2024
Track listing: Night Flight; Morning Star; Opus 3; Sandino; Hindsight; Azure Te; Spiral Dance; Turn Out The
Stars; Funk In Deep Freeze.
Oscar Peterson: City Lights: The Oscar Peterson Quartet – Live in Munich, 1994

by Mike Jurkovic
The first big challenge presented by the latest grand release from the Oscar Peterson archives, City Lights: The Oscar Peterson Quartet--Live in Munich, 1994 is how not to spontaneously burst into dance, either with yourself or some total stranger who happens to be within five miles of earshot of the ecstatic opener, There Will Never Be ...
Lorne Lofsky: Steward of the Canadian Guitar Tradition

by John Chacona
Guitarist Lorne Lofsky rocketed to fame when It Could Happen To You (Pablo Records, 1981), his debut release as a leader, was produced by fellow Canadian Oscar Peterson. Lofsky has since toured and recorded with a wide range of musicians from all around the world, including Peterson, but his hometown of Toronto has been his base ...
One More For The Road

By Guido Basso
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2023
Track listing: Two for the Road; Gentle Rain; Blue Monk; My Ideal; You're Nearer; Bye Bye Blues; The Good
Life; East of the Sun; Second Chance; Last Night When We Were Young; Ill Wind; Ballad of the
Sad Young Men.
Guido Basso: One More For The Road

by Pierre Giroux
Guido Basso, known for his mastery of the flugelhorn and trumpet, died in February of 2023. From his earliest days in Montreal playing with the Maury Kaye band, to working in the US with top performers such Vic Damone and Pearl Bailey, Basso gained a reputation as a consummate musician who was capable of working in ...
Canadian Jazz Collective: Septology

by Jack Bowers
The Canadian Jazz Collective is a septet comprised of several of that country's leading jazz musicians. Trumpeter Derrick Gardner, tenor saxophonist Kirk MacDonald and guitarist Lorne Lofsky certainly need no introduction to jazz fans, in Canada or most anywhere else, nor do pianist Brian Dickinson, bassist Neil Swainson, drummer Bernd Reiter and clarinetist Virginia MacDonald. Septology, ...