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Are You Really Real

Label: Alma Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: X Marks The Spot; Out To Sea; Are You Really Real; Bottom Dollar; Ride The Wave;
Good Mourning; Money Is My Only Religion; Scala Rosa; Sunny Side Up; Prism; In
The Air; Nice Signal; Run The World.
Shuffle Demons: Are You Really Real

by Anastasia Bogomolets
Celebrating four decades of genre-blending jazz, the Shuffle Demons return with Are You Really Real, a studio album that fuses funk, post-bop, theatrical satire and spiritual jazz. Influences ranging from Eric Dolphy and Alice Coltrane to the Red Hot Chili Peppers shape the band's eclectic high-energy aesthetic. The opening track, X Marks the Spot," ...
Shuffle Demons: Are You Really Real

by Pierre Giroux
There is a unique brand of musical madness that only the Shuffle Demons can conjure--a whirlwind of saxophones, humour, groove and a palpable sense of daring. With Are You Really Real, this storied Canadian outfit delivers a recording that captures the very essence of what made them both a cult favourite and respected presence on the ...
Piano Poetry

Label: Balloon Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Piano Poem 1
Silhouette Of Scars (Feat. Phöenix Lazare)
Piano Poem 2
Piano Poem 3
Where The Bees Don’t Sting (Feat.
Catey Esler and Jan Esbra)
Piano Poem 4
Diana (Feat. Tom Paxton, Cathy Fink,
and Marcy Marxer)
Piano Poem 5
Hot Cross Buns
Piano Poem 6 (Feat. Anthony Fung)
Piano Poem 7
The Poet (Feat. Taisha Estrada and Matt Lagan)
Piano Poem 8 (Feat. Lucas Ashby)
Auld Lang Syne
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.
The Grind

Label: Balloon Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Willy Wonka; Mars; Face Theory Intro; Face Theory; Falling; The Grind; The Beautiful Cat; Yore; Rain
Shuffle Demons: All In

by Chris M. Slawecki
There aren't too many bands still standing from back when Shuffle Demons first performed in 1984. Their tenth recording, All In features three saxophonists-- tenors Kelly Jefferson and Matt Lagan plus Richard Underhill on alto and baritone--plus acoustic bassist Mike Downes and drummer Stich Wynston tearing through ten new originals. With no chord instruments (piano, guitar) ...
Demons and Wizards, June Bugs and Jakarta

by Chris M. Slawecki
Hermeto Pascoal Planetario Da Gavea Far Out Recordings 2022 Planetario Da Gavea is an enormous, sprawling document from a February 1981 outdoor performance series by Brazilian jazz wizard Hermeto Pascoal recorded under the stars in the Gávea neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, within the dome of ...
The Shuffle Demons: All In

by Jack Bowers
With a three-saxophone front line and no piano, Canada's Shuffle Demons could be mistaken for the legendary Gerry Mulligan Quartet on steroidscould be, that is, until one hears the music, which bears scant resemblance to the West Coast cool espoused by Mulligan, Chet Baker and their colleagues. In other words, they're not called Shuffle Demons for ...