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Finely Tuned Elephant

Active since: 2019

Finely Tuned Elephant is an instrumental jazz-rock fusion quartet from Ottawa, Ontario: Jordan Robinson (guitar), Cyrus Robertson Orkish (bass), Alex Lugli (keyboards) and Kyle Iveglia (drums). Guitarist Jordan Robinson formed the band in 2019 as a trio with Kyle Iveglia and bassist Félix Labrosse, who played on the debut, Perfect Coincidence (2020). The Fast Life (2022) followed, with Robinson on guitar and bass. Cyrus Robertson Orkish joined in 2022 and Alex Lugli in 2025.

No Goats (March 27, 2026), the first album recorded by the full quartet playing together, is a concept album about four goats in disguise trying to sneak into an elephants-only club

Jordan Robinson

Jordan Robinson is an Ottawa guitarist, composer and producer, and the founder of the instrumental jazz-rock fusion band Finely Tuned Elephant, which he started in 2019. He has writing credits on all three of the band's albums, Perfect Coincidence (2020), The Fast Life (2022) and No Goats (2026), and produced all three at Finely Tuned Studios, the Ottawa studio he has run since 2014. No Goats, the band's first album recorded as a full quartet with Cyrus Robertson Orkish (bass), Alex Lugli (keyboards) and Kyle Iveglia (drums), was produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Robinson.

Steve Berndt

Steve Berndt is a trombonist, vocalist, composer, arranger, producer, actor and teacher based in Ottawa, Canada.

Steve began performing musically as a vocal soloist in elementary school music competitions in the Ottawa region and chose the trombone as his main instrument in high school. Steve decided to pursue a career in music after being chosen by Chuck Mangione for inclusion in the 1976 Canadian Stage Band Festival All Star Band and attending The Stan Kenton Creative World Clinic that summer hosted at Toronto’s York University. Steve then enrolled in the music program at Toronto’s Humber College, graduating in 1982. In 1983, Steve settled in Ottawa after returning to join a swing cover band called The Blue Current Preserve.

The Audiophile: Adrian Butts

by B.D. Lenz
October 9, 2025

Speak with any recording engineer, and they will express to you the frustration they have with modern music listening habits. Think about the money invested in top-notch gear to maximize the sonic quality of their productions, the effort put into having great sounds on a recording, the care poured into getting just the right mix, and ...

Sit Back, Relax And Listen To AmagrasMusic New Album

May 2, 2025

Acclaimed international music producer and genre-blending visionary AmagrasMusic (Andrei Martinez Agras) today proudly releases Beyond Collabs a vibrant jazz fusion album uniting Cuban artists from across the globe in a powerful celebration of culture, spontaneity, and creative unity. More than just an album, Beyond Collabs is a musical passport rooted in jazz with branches extending into ...

Ten Terrific Sax Plus Organ Combinations

by Artur Moral
February 12, 2025

OK, maybe the electric guitar was its first and most celebrated love affair, but the organ's alliances with the saxophone's family members are undoubtedly among the richest musical combinations, both in terms of sound and the intense interrelationships that typically develop in such encounters. Whether it be a tenor with a Hammond, a soprano with an ...

Gerry Wall

Born: July 26

Gerry Wall is a contemporary singer/songwriter in the style of Paul Simon, Ron Sexsmith and Marc Jordan.  Wall has just released his eighth album (Back Seat Fame), to follow up on his previous releases: The Early Dreams (2019), Mind Alone (2014), World (2010), ex Patriot’s Day (2007), Winter Grass (2006), Returning Fire (2004) and Tobermory (2000).  Reflective, accessible, with a touch of jazz/roots charm, some of the music that you might most treasure is by artists you don’t yet know; so please give a listen!

D.D. Jackson: I Call

by John Chacona
October 15, 2024

"I Call" is a poem about the immigrant's dilemma of identifying with two places but fully inhabiting neither, using the refrain, “a place that doesn't exist" to name this condition. Yet Quebec-born Toronto poet Choucri Paul Zemokhol's family came to Canada from the Middle East, a place that, even in the interval since the poem's publication ...

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 ...

Cleveland's Tri-C Jazz Fest Returns to Playhouse Square in 2022

March 21, 2022

At Cleveland's Tri-C Jazz Fest, everything new is old again. That might sound retrogressive in a culture that valorizes novelty, but the announcement that the 43rd edition of the festival will return to the historic theaters of Playhouse Square is instead a comforting, Biden-era byword after the disruptions of the past two years.