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Nicola Miller’s Living Things: Spit!
by Mike Jurkovic
On the street, they would say that maritime Nova Scotia's rogue saxophonist Nicola Miller's rhizome-like way with her quintet, Living Things, or her prog jazz as a concept, is “some crazy sh*#!." But it need be said nicer at a global concern like All About Jazz. For as gentlemen and even gentler ladies, we are sworn ...
Allison Cameron & Scott Thomson: Platanus
by Glenn Astarita
Toronto composer, performer, and improviser Allison Cameron has carved out a distinctive niche in Canadian new music since the mid-1980s, her work marked by an instrumental kaleidoscope and gentle waywardness that tends to elude quick summary. Born in Edmonton and trained at the University of Victoria and York University, she settled in Toronto in 1989, eventually ...
David Occhipinti: Looking Glass
by Glenn Astarita
David Occhipinti delivers a compact yet richly textured statement with Looking Glass, a collection that runs approximately 35 minutes and registers more as a carefully curated EP than a conventional full-length album. The work centers on original compositions for electric guitar and string trio, drawing inspiration from Dadaist artists and the surreal narratives of Lewis Carroll. ...
Meredith Bates: The Quiet Science Of Sound Worlds
by Lawrence Peryer
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Meredith Bates, a JUNO Award-winning violinist and composer based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.Meredith's recent double album, The Observer Effect, spans roughly 140 minutes of electroacoustic music built from violin, viola, field recordings, and electronics, composed and recorded live in the studio, with very few edits. ...
Nick Fraser: Still Screaming Into The Snare Drum
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Toronto drummer and composer Nick Fraser.Nick Fraser is one of the most distinctive voices in Canadian improvised music. He has played with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and William Parker, and has led projects that range from raw free jazz to something much harder to name.His latest ...
Mal Wadron, Sam Rivers, Nick Fraser, Meredith Bates, and much more
by Lawrence Peryer
An hour of creative music where archival recordings and new releases share equal footing. Irreversible Entanglements and a newly surfaced 1984 Mal Waldron-Sam Rivers improvisation open the show; Alabaster DePlume, a Daunik Lazro-Joëlle Léandre-Paul Lovens trio, Work Money Death, and Nick Fraser carry the middle sets; and Vancouver composer Meredith Bates closes it out with music ...
Andrew MacKelvie: Many Worlds
by Glenn Astarita
In 2012, Andrew MacKelvie was struck by a drunk driver while cycling through Halifax. He broke his back, shattered his knee, and landed on his saxophone case, which likely kept his head off the pavement. What followed were months of immobility and, eventually, a compositional fixation on that sliver of time when everything might have turned ...
Patrick Smith: Bebop, Brass Bands, And A Bookstore
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on Toronto saxophonist Patrick Smith. Patrick has become a key player in the city's creative music scene. His album, Words Underlined, came out in December on Lit Soc Records, the first release from the new label started by Sellers & Newell, a Toronto bookstore that moonlights as a music ...
Noah Franche-Nolan: Music-Making As Spiritual Practice
by Lawrence Peryer
Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on pianist and composer Noah Franche-Nolan. Noah's latest album, Rose-Anna, is named after his Acadian great-grandmother, a church organist from Grand Falls, New Brunswick. The Acadians are French-speaking people with deep roots in Canada's Maritime provinces. The Acadians were expelled from their land by the British in the ...
Tim Brady: For Electric Guitar
by Glenn Astarita
For Electric Guitar stands as a major artistic statement from Montréal-based composer and electric guitarist Tim Brady. He began playing guitar at age eleven, initially teaching himself acoustic folk styles before transitioning to electric guitar during his teenage years. Brady later pursued formal training at Concordia University and the New England Conservatory, establishing the groundwork for ...
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