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ECV: Sticks and Stones

by John Kelman
While a somewhat common secondary instrument for primarily electric guitarists including Vic Juris, Pat Metheny and Adam Rogers, there are but a handful of jazz six-stringers alive today who make the nylon-string acoustic guitar their main axe. Despite being known to pick up a warm-toned hollow body electric guitar when the need arises, Ottawa, Canada-based Roddy ...
Sticks and Stones

By Roddy Ellias
Label: Kwimu Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Folksong; Requiem; Waves; Hymn; Sonnet; Nardis; Sticks and Stones; Nostalgia.
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

by John Kelman
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...
Monday's Dream

By Roddy Ellias
Label: Kwimu Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Little One; Shuffle Boogie; Too Far; The Lopsided Robot; Chorale; Calm; Big Bass Song; Somewhere Under the Rainbow; Evening Sky Dance; Monday's Dream.
TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9

by John Kelman
Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Anat Fort / Susanna Torben Waldorff Wah Wah / Norma WInstone Partisans TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 For the last three days in Ottawa before heading to Montréal for five days of the Festival ...
Roddy Ellias Trio: Monday's Dream

by John Kelman
Since returning home to Ottawa after spending much of his adult life as an associate music professor at Concordia University in Montréal, Roddy Ellias may have retired but he's far from slowing down. Retirement's just a word, but for this extraordinary guitarist it's clearly been a liberating one; based on Monday's Dream, his first recording since ...