The countdown is on — we’re just one month away from the 2025 Toronto Jazz Festival! The Toronto Jazz Fest is celebrating its 38th year from June...
Vibrant, earthy rhythm, often evocative of the comparsa, not to mention beauty of tone, a sense of yearning, and an uncommon sensuousness pervade all the music...
The ubiquitous Trinidadian – and, in Toronto, pan-Caribbean – Instrument: the steelpan has never sounded so exquisite than in the delicately feminine hands of Joy Lapps...
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...
If the idiocy of so-called “cultural appropriation” were to be taken any more seriously than it is right now, would that ever make it possible for...
Canada sometimes feels a lot like the Afro-Cuban mainland. The country is bristling with talent from the fabled island of the Orishas among other not-so-savoury things....
While almost no one was looking the bassist Yoser Rodriguez has slipped in his maiden album as leader. Rodriguez is not simply another Cuban musician naturalised...
Musical ideas appear to come at the gifted Canadian musician and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Ledbetter from many directions. These cannot always be described as “countries of origin,”...
With her album Espejo the Venezuelan-born singer/songwriter Eliana Cuevas is somewhat deeper into her life as a musician. It is clear from the music on this...