Photo Credit: Hilary Gauld Camilleri Mary-Catherine Pazzano excels with the Great American Songbook and Jazz Standards, but this concert will be more holiday themed. We’ll be recording a live Christmas album on this night. It will be released at The Jazz Room next Christmas season. For anyone who attends the Jazz Room on Dec. …
Photo Credit: Karl Leung All The Little Things You Do is award-winning Canadian trumpeter, vocalist, composer and bandleader Rebecca Hennessy’s most recent studio album. This album heralds her debut as a singer-songwriter and is being released in the profound time between the recent death of her mother and the birth of her first child. This …
Photo credit:Kori Ayukawa Elena Kapeleris is a Toronto-based saxophonist, vocalist, composer, bandleader, and educator who plays and sings a mixture of the Great American Songbook Standards and the Modern Jazz of the Storytellers…. from the Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, through to Abbey Lincoln, Wayne Shorter and Keith Jarrett songs. She has …
Joel Haynes has grown from his early community musical experiences in his hometown of Burlington, Ontario, and has progressed to playing with some of the finest jazz artists. Highlights include being nominated for a “National Jazz Award” in 2003 and two nominations in 2009 for CD of the Year and Drummer of the Year. He …
The Button Factory Band plays jazz: a unique and heroic blend of comic, tragic, eclectic and subversive jazz. They came to life in 2013 when Glenn Buhr asked a collection of improvisational jazz musicians in southwestern Ontario to form a band to explore some sociopolitical ideas. They started with some blues-oriented material, along with …
Rich Brown & The Abeng is the latest project from Canadian bassist and composer Rich Brown. The band takes its name from an African instrument made from a hollowed out cow horn and used by the Maroons of Jamaica to call the community together for all social gatherings. The music of The Abeng has been described as …
Photo Credit: Karen Goddard . The Phoenix Jazz Group performs jazz in a melodic fusion style. Group members are very versatile in a number of different genres. A review from The Jazz Society of Oregon stated ” they’re a Canadian quintet of musicians with impressive credentials whose program of all original music swings with ease. ” …
Photo Credit: Don Vickery International performer, drummer, composer, record producer, educator and multi-award winning Barry Elmes is a mainstay of the Canadian jazz scene. His work has been documented on over 90 jazz CDs and he has performed and/or recorded with many renowned jazz artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Tommy Flanagan, Charlie Haden, Hank Crawford, Diana …
WAPAMA is a collective of three dedicated musicians living in Toronto, Canada. They take influences from music and cultures throughout the globe and improvise collectively and intensely. They play high energy groove explorations, combining infectious rhythms from around the globe with deep melodies, and universally enjoyed harmonic structures. The results have received a great response …
Photos by Emma-Lee Photography “Beddage has a well-developed identity on the demanding baritone, playing with real power…” -The Whole Note Magazine “…An example of what a powerful and modern baritone could be… ” – modernbarisax.com Two-time JUNO-nominated musician Shirantha Beddage (“Shurr-ANN-tha BED-da-gay”) is a baritone saxophonist, composer and educator from Toronto, Canada. His original music …
