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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 ...
A Song Is Born (with George Shearing)
By Joe Williams
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Just Friends; I Let a Song Go Out of; Nobody’s Heart Belongs to Me; Blues In My
Heart; Shake Rattle and Roll;
A Child
is Born; I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water; Little Girl Blue; Who She Do?; Sometimes I'm
Happy; Roll 'Em Pete;
Tenderly;
The Comeback.
The Magnificent
By Brad Turner
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: You're OK; Barney's Castle; Slapped My Mind; Virtue Signals; To Begin, Begin; Bernice; The
Magnificent; Theme For Jocie; Rosemary.
Recent History
By Mike Murley
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2023
Track listing: Monk's Dream; Recent History; Someday; A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing; Things; Embrace;
Alone Together; Soul Wise; I Only Want; Writer's Tears; Prisoner of Love.
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.
The Return
By Joel Haynes
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Return; Peregrination; There and Back; Tomorrow Never Knows; Secret Garden; Allure;
Angel; Payback.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Joel Haynes: The Return
by Jack Bowers
The Return! is certainly well-named, as it is drummer Joel Haynes' third album as leader of his own group but the first in fifteen years, following Cellar Music recordings The Time Is Now (2005) and Transitions (2008). During his long absence from a recording studio, however, Toronto-based Haynes has managed to stay busy, performing with many ...
Brad Turner Quintet: The Magnificent
by Jack Bowers
If the title of Canadian trumpeter Brad Turner's latest album, The Magnificent, sounds a trifle self-absorbed, rest assured it does not refer to him but to another “magnificent" horn player, the late Thad Jones. The honorific, however, would not be unwisely used if applied to Turner himself, who not only excels on the trumpet but also ...
