The Blue Note Retrospective highlights the music of the Blue Note record label and some of it’s more recognizable compositions from the 50’s to the 60’s, what could be described as it’s heyday. The music blended a mixture of Hard Bop and the emerging popularity of Soul jazz creating a new genre of music we …
Photo Credit: Gary Taylor Lance Anderson is a Juno award winning producer and Maple Blues Award winning keyboardist. He was honoured to be nominated …
Toronto’s TuneTown are an adventurous saxophone, bass, and drum trio who apply their vibrant mix of post-bop, funk, and avant-garde jazz to originals and creatively reimagined standards. They first garnered buzz playing live before releasing their debut album, “There from Here”, in 2019 and sophomore album, “Entering Utopia” in 2021 Formed in 2015, TuneTown …
Internationally renowned violinist Jerzy Kapłanek has established himself as a chamber musician, member of the celebrated Penderecki String Quartet, soloist, dedicated teacher, adjudicator, artistic director of QuartetFest and lately as a jazz violinist. With his sublime, soulful sound, the Kaplanek Quartet will explore a combination of jazz standards and originals. They will introduce us to the varied and powerful tunes by iconic jazz violinists Jean-Luc Ponty, Didier Lockwood, Zbigniew Seifert and …
Photo Credit:Andi State Andrés Vial (pronounced Vee-al) is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser and educator born and raised in Montréal. His compositions are inspired by jazz and popular music, his South American heritage, and several African and European musical traditions. For his June 8 show at the Jazz Room, he will be joined by bassist …
Ray Robinson, Nicole Faye, and Juno Award winner Carlos Morgan, perform a concert celebrating the distinctive, dynamic and eclectic sounds of Black music. Robinson, Faye and Morgan will perform songs from some of the best of Black Music, as well as their original music, and songs from Black artists from across Canada. Come see …
London’s London’s award-winning Jazz songstress Sonja Gustafson is a talented vocalist with a unique style and polish. Her traditional approach reflects an appreciation for the forerunners of vocal jazz, bringing a cool verve to classic and lesser-known standards. Honest and soulful in her delivery and grace, Sonja Gustafson is dazzling whether performing torch ballads, scatting with abandon, …
photo credit: Stuart Lowe Guitarist, composer and educator James Brown has been a long time staple on the Canadian jazz scene. His set list features critically acclaimed original tunes by Brown along with tasty standards and not so standard tunes by Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and the Beatles. James’ most recent recording Song Within …
