Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda & Antonio Sánchez: BEATrio Something about trios demands a certain synchronicity for the format to fire as one. The players, regardless of...
From Havana to Ground Zero: How Ariacne Trujillo Survived and Found Her Sound Through Resilience, Classical Roots and Global Collaboration Intro (Editor’s note): From Havana’s classical...
April 24, 1955 – December 14, 2025 A great soul has departed, leaving behind a luminous legacy etched in prose. Raul da Gama was more than...
Toronto Jazz Festival – June 24, 2024: Chief Adjuah [formerly Christian Scott] and The Wisdom of Orixa with special guests Nildinha Fonseca, Zé Ricardo, Mayombe Masai,...
What can you say when, due to another’s unfortunate circumstance, a gift comes your way? Sorry that you are feeling under the weather and thank you...
Christian McBride is the man. My daughter was recently in London, England, for work and sent me a message. She explained she had the chance to...
The 36th edition of the TD Toronto Jazz Festival has come and gone. For me, the jazz festival signifies the official start of summer and it’s...
I have seen Arturo Sandoval live on two previous occasions. The first time was way back in 2008 at the big tent, in front of Toronto’s...
10 Days of Free Shows — Say What! My TD Toronto Jazz Festival started mid festival, Tuesday, June 28th, early evening. It was all about Juno...
My first time back in Koerner Hall in over 2 years and the Gregory Porter band set to perform for me and a sold out audience...
Arturo Sandoval – Cuban Focus Series – March 23, 2019 Spring had arrived but you wouldn’t know it by the temperature outside. Only the billboard with...
Brazil meets Cuba, a time for Markham and GTA residents to come in from the cold for what was promised to be some hot sounds on...
A Class Act Another first for me, a Christmas holiday show to see a Canadian jazz chanteuse. A debut concert at the Royal Conservatory in support...
The Jazz Trio: Carol Welsman At The Jazz BistroJune 30, 2017 – TD Toronto Jazz Festival Carol Welsman, singer and pianist, in an intimate setting at...
The Toronto Jazz Festival is always a happening event and as with jazz so it seems that the Toronto Jazz Festival does some improvising, changing personnel,...
