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Tania Gill

Acclaimed composer and pianist Tania Gill is a key figure in the Toronto scenes of jazz and creative music. She’s performed and recorded with many diverse world-class artists, including Deep Dark United, Charles Spearin’s The Happiness Project, Andrew Downing, The Flying Bulgars, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Anthony Braxton. Her long-awaited 2010 debut recording, Bolger Station (Barnyard Records) was ‘disc of the week’ and short-listed for ‘disc of the year’ by The Globe and Mail, and was nominated for ‘debut album of the year’ in The Village Voice jazz critics’ poll. Her Quartet includes top-flight collaborators, Jean Martin (drums), Clinton Ryder (bass) and Lina Allemano (trumpet)

Babylonia Suite

By Ilios Steryannis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Babylonia; The Cobra; Zakir; Madchester; The Procession; Nina's Dance; Ya Habt Al- Rehna; Blue Rumba; Sun Song; 400 North; LaPlante.

Zakir

November 23, 2023

Album: Babylonia Suite
By Ilios Steryannis
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 7:03

Celebrating and Reflecting Back on Guelph Jazz Festival @ 30

by Josef Woodard
October 1, 2023

Guelph Jazz Festival Guelph Otario, Canada September 14-17, 2023 There are precious few jazz festivals in the Americas adhering to what could be called the Triple-A curatorial mandate: adventurous, avant-garde and art-centric. These special cases cling to a commercially fragile, demographically marginal--and also culturally vital--realm and mission. Such conditions make ...

Meadow Of Dreams

By Brodie West

Label: Ansible Editions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Entrainment; Fortress; Inhabit 1; Grotto; Inhabit 11; Inhabit 111; Haunt; Meadow Of Dreams.

Disappearing Curiosities

By Tania Gill

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Marsh Music; To Montreal; Jaunty Woo; Tangled Branches (for Geri Allen); Climate Striker; People Gonna Rise Like the Water; Apology; Frisbee; Knocked Over.

Tomasz Dabrowski, James Singleton & Dave Gisler

by Maurice Hogue
April 6, 2022

Like most Polish trumpet players influenced by the late Tomasz Stanko, Tomasz Dabrowski fell heavily under Stanko's spell, but he also was blessed to study with the master and to have him as a mentor. It was probably a huge thrill to be able to play one of Stanko's horns while recording his latest, Tomasz Dabrowski ...

Tania Gill Quartet: Disappearing Curiosities

by Troy Dostert
March 16, 2022

Pianist Tania Gill has been making inspired music in the ever-thriving Toronto jazz scene since the early 2000s, although her output has become especially visible since her debut release Bolger Station (Barnyard Records, 2010). An artist equally attentive to melody and songcraft, Gill refuses to be pigeonholed, contributing to a range of projects which defy easy ...

The Brodie West Quintet: Meadow Of Dreams

by Chris May
February 25, 2022

It may or may not be because of a recent series of programmes about Impressionist art on British television, combined with a passing knowledge of intoxicants, but for some reason the album title Meadow Of Dreams suggests one of Claude Monet's paintings of a field of poppies. As it happens, Monet's poppy paintings ...

Two From TUM

by Maurice Hogue
February 2, 2022

A true smorgasbord of creative music in this edition of One Man's Jazz. It's all good--American masters Andrew Cyrille and William Parker joined by Enrico Rava, the OGJB Quartet, Joe McPhee, New Orleans poet Don Paul, Tony Malaby & Reggie Workman--European flavours from pianists Joona Toivanen from Finland and Alexander Hawkins from England, Nexus and Rope ...