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Tom Wakeling releases: The CBC Tapes & Cotton Club Live
Live, local, early-2000s Wakeling on bass with Brad Turner trumpet, John Gross saxophone, & William Thomas drums
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Chelsea McBride & Thomas Houlden: Sax, Trumpet, Grad School
Chelsea & Thomas talk grad school, composition, favourite Christmas songs, and this week's Holiday Spectacular
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Marie Goudy’s Paloma Sky: produced by Elizabeth Shepherd
The sound on Goudy’s album, Shepherd’s own latest record called Three Things, and Andrea Superstein’s work
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Year-end letter 2024 for subscribers
Talking money, growth, the podcast's new era, gig list internship, next ideas, & my 2025 goal. Thank you!
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Elastic label: Michael Davidson, Dan Fortin, Bryn Roberts
Going through the work of the Toronto indie jazz label’s founders, plus the latest album by pianist Roberts
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A look ahead to ticketed shows in 2025
Things that might sell out + personal favourites that I have a moment to walk you through before the holidays
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David Sikula: Guitar, Audio Engineer, Organ Jazz & More
Dave’s playing covers straight-ahead to improvising; he records out of Demitone, Monarch, & more
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You deserve to test out of an entire music business degree
If you can answer all 10 of these questions
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Caity Gyorgy: Hello! How Are You?
Her 5th album has all the fixings – birds, snail mail, tight arrangements, scat – and affirmations
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Noah Franche-Nolan brought his trio to Alberta and to Saskatoon
To Alberta and Saskatchewan, joined in BC by Dan Pitt for playing and recording, and Raagaverse
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Dan Pitt Quintet: Horizontal Depths
A variety of guitar effects combined with the two horns and the slight integration of free jazz
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Benjamin Deschamps: No Codes, saxophone, tour to the west
An interview with Ben about the chordless collective’s story after they played Tyrant Studios