Toots Thielemans’ artistry is the sound of many generations
Have you heard that soul-touching harmonica in the theme music for films like The Getaway from 1972, Midnight Cowboy of 1969, and...
Laura Anglade’s voice is romantic and gentle
Listen, imagine a romantic café or bistro, or the setting of an historic club, on stage, a band and a singer, so...
Nikki Iles fuels imagination through her music
Jazz piano players are of a crowded and expected to be deeply defined by the genre set. Theirs is an often unforgiving,...
Jaco Pastorius’ music flows like water
The storyscape of Ray Bradbury’s “The Sound of Summer Running” plays with the imagination and nostalgic memories as a limitless place of...
Bill Mays plays on pure imagination
Pianist and composer Bill Mays has garnered some generous accolades from writers on jazz. All capturing the essence of his playground like...
Nat Adderley Jr. plays with unmistakable joy
He comes with many impressive titles and accomplishments to his name. He has been a musical director, producer, arranger, and composer of...
Mel Torme gave us music that was smooth and lush
Imagine being so good so young that when a major band leader wanted to sign you because of a song you wrote...
Sijle Nergaard is in charm’s spectrum of colour
Sijle writes about time and place, where she stands in that time and place and how that all affects, expresses, manages, and...
Oliver Jones is Canada’s musical griot
I have heard him play and I have heard him speak. Grace is a gift, an expression of favor and a kind...
Ben Paterson articulates language with his music
Piano, organ, and Philadelphia. He plays the first two on that list and he’s proudly from the third. Music, culture, and art,...
Bill Henderson told stories with his voice
He was a Chicago native. His direct delivery, bluesy vocal sound, was all about that city and its blues legacy. In his...
Howard Roberts’ artistry was groovy
Groovy: what a good word; its best life spanning the 1950s through to the 70s. It had single word appeal, saying it...
Dave Holland’s artistry animates his musical canvas
The bassist so often is the ballast and foundation of the harmonic and rhythmic drive and legs of the band. The perspective...
Nancy Walker’s music takes you on a sonic magic carpet ride
Have you ever taken a walk or gentle hike out to a clearing, maybe a rise in the land that allows you...
Fern Lindzon reaches out to the imagination’s hands
A good story engages you. It reaches out and takes your imagination’s hands and holds them from start to finish. The grip...
Brother Jack McDuff made the organ swing
There was an old living room sized organ in my Aunt and Uncle’s home in Philadelphia. It had all kinds of stops...
Elizabeth Shepherd is an intoxicating mix of jazz and pop
The piano and keyboards playing vocalist’s artistic dynamics are exciting and have excited many. ICI Musique, Radio-Canada has used these words as...
Pepper Adams gave the baritone saxophone life
You may be able to hide behind the physicality, but the voice of the baritone sax is as grand as and as...
Jakob Bro’s music is magical
These words are part of a description of the Danish guitarist’s sound: “…magical music, impossible to categorize or capture… best described as...
Kellylee Evans is an overcomer
She is an overcomer and a reacher. She has had to climb mountains many of us have only admired or been in...
Kurt Rosenwinkel is a relentless explorer
He’s a Philadelphia native. That hometown city has always been an incubator of some of the best in all of the arts....
Billie Holiday’s voice gave colour to every emotion
I think that if you have lost something or somebody you can find it or that someone again by listening to Billie...
Gary Bartz represents the truth in music
The foundation of the artistry of Gary Bartz is not a complex construct. It is simply a must be. He stands for...