Paid-members only Recordings Brad Turner Trio w/ Darren Radtke, Bernie Arai: North Star All compositions, produced, mixed, & mastered by Brad: recorded at Monarch by Dave Sikula
Recordings Emily Braden: Cannon & Sparrow, jazz & soul trio + guests The former Vancouver Island vocalist, now in NYC, has a powerful, personal new project
Paid-members only Recordings 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
Recordings Drummer Sanah Kadoura's second album: Duality Kadoura's second album blends jazz and neo-soul with melodies inspired by Arabic music
Recordings 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
Recordings 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
Recordings Jacob Wutzke: Show Yourself, with BC-raised Lucas Dubovik Popular young drummer Jacob completes the Montreal band with Gentiane MG and Levi Dover
Recordings Rachel Therrien and her Latin Jazz Project album Mi Hogar Rachel's sweeping project reflects her decade-plus journey through Cuban music and more
Recordings Holly Burke & Bill Runge with Linda Lee Thomas: Dreamride Holly & Bill have co-composed 20 short piano pieces, recorded by pianist Linda Lee Thomas
Recordings The Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Voices: A Musical Heritage WJO's new release executes an ambitious concept celebrating multiculturalism in Manitoba
Recordings Jim Head - Prismatic Calling Jim Head the Canadian answer to mid-career Kurt Rosenwinkel isn't far-fetched.
Recordings 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
Recordings Harry Bartlett taught me something about Charlie Haden Review by Chris Fraser of BC/Toronto guitarist Bartlett's second trio album, Wildwood
Recordings The highly-anticipated Ostara Project album: our review 10 months ago, we covered the supergroup at their launch. Now, their debut album is out
Recordings That feeling of post-apocalyptic vintage radio transmission Eva Schubert releases her fourth album as a vocalist-songwriter, The Feel of Your Love
Recordings Alvaro Rojas, the restless guitar & string quartet master His latest record, Music for 22, is full of genre-bending and collaborative adventure
Recordings Mama Danced: LJ Mounteney sings the Basement Suite Blues LJ's blues / roots album has great range and features several Vancouver jazz musicians
Recordings Diana Panton finally ended her trilogy. What's different? From pink to RED to the new album "blue", the vocalist has patiently added maturity
Recordings 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
Recordings 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
Paid-members only Recordings That photo? This music? It's primed for nostalgia Mathieu Soucy titled his first album, Recollecting, for the future
Recordings They can hate but Keith O'Rourke is still swingin... Sonny-forward sax chordless trio for optimists
Recordings David Blake haunts me again with his version of this tune On Fun House, his second jazz guitar album, he leads a quintet
