Recordings

A collection of 125 posts

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A Giving Way at the Fox: the bounty of the Peggy Lee Band

Peggy’s eight-piece band plays the Fox Cabaret Saturday; A Giving Way is their new album

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Nicky Schrire: Nowhere Girl, folk & vocal jazz, belonging

The South African-British singer will release her third album, made in Canada, on June 9

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Melissa Pipe: Of What Remains, bassoon plus baritone sax

The Montreal reedist explores the traversing of time, time and transience in chamber jazz

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The Composers Collective Big Band: The Toronto Project

What’s the sound of Toronto? What’s the Toronto sound? Two related but distinct questions

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Brad Turner Trio w/ Darren Radtke, Bernie Arai: North Star

All compositions, produced, mixed, & mastered by Brad: recorded at Monarch by Dave Sikula

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Taking a naive listen to 3 of his compositions after a gig

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Emily Braden: Cannon & Sparrow, jazz & soul trio + guests

The former Vancouver Island vocalist, now in NYC, has a powerful, personal new project

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Flicker: Chad Makela Quartet album, more from Paul Rushka

Following up on my interview with Paul: a scene from the “director's cut” of the interview

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Drummer Sanah Kadoura's second album: Duality

Kadoura's second album blends jazz and neo-soul with melodies inspired by Arabic music

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Mike Allen Trio, with John Lee and Carl Allen: To A Star

Three tracks are recorded at the Warehouse, the rest live at Frankie's: all are top-shelf

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Pianist-composer Anthony Tan on susurrus, his new solo work

Anthony was born in Alberta and now lives in Victoria, but he made this music at McGill

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Jacob Wutzke: Show Yourself, with BC-raised Lucas Dubovik

Popular young drummer Jacob completes the Montreal band with Gentiane MG and Levi Dover

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Rachel Therrien and her Latin Jazz Project album Mi Hogar

Rachel's sweeping project reflects her decade-plus journey through Cuban music and more

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Holly Burke & Bill Runge with Linda Lee Thomas: Dreamride

Holly & Bill have co-composed 20 short piano pieces, recorded by pianist Linda Lee Thomas

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The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Voices: A Musical Heritage

WJO's new release executes an ambitious concept celebrating multiculturalism in Manitoba

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Jim Head - Prismatic

Calling Jim Head the Canadian answer to mid-career Kurt Rosenwinkel isn't far-fetched.

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Heyday: RJ LeBlanc's fusion of math rock, shoegaze, and groove

Montréal bassist Rémi-Jean LeBlanc's fun fourth album, Heyday, does jazz and indie rock

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Harry Bartlett taught me something about Charlie Haden

Review by Chris Fraser of BC/Toronto guitarist Bartlett's second trio album, Wildwood

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The highly-anticipated Ostara Project album: our review

10 months ago, we covered the supergroup at their launch. Now, their debut album is out

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That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission

Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love

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Alvaro Rojas, the restless guitar & string quartet master

His latest record, Music for 22, is full of genre-bending and collaborative adventure

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Mama Danced: LJ Mounteney sings the Basement Suite Blues

LJ's blues / roots album has great range and features several Vancouver jazz musicians

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Diana Panton finally ended her trilogy. What's different?

From pink to RED to the new album "blue", the vocalist has patiently added maturity

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Marina Hasselberg's debut album isn't just a business card

Red, the cellist's first as a leader, is expressive and shows rewarding collaborations

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Singing "Russians" by Sting like it's a brand-new song

Melody Diachun's new album is all Sting songs with a quartet of piano-guitar-bass-drums