This event is brought to you by HopeSpring Cancer Support Center. Hot Jazz on a cool night. A fundraiser for HopeSpring. HopeSpring provides free programs and services for those affected by cancer. It’s the Tom Nagy Band doing their first non-holiday gig for HopeSpring! Come hear some choice jazz standards. Cost: 55.00 Includes delicious appetizers …
NUMUS presents: Sonic Perfume The instrument group Sonic Perfume could be described as a free-jazz-garage-rock-fusion group, but that isn’t quite right. Just like their music, the boundaries are crossed; splitting members between Ontario and Michigan, Phil Albert, Patrick O’Reilly, Patrick Booth, and Jonathan Taylor as Sonic Perfume constantly mix the idea of composition and improvisation in their performances, mashing …
“No pretense or posturing, only musical sincerity.” Guitarist and composer Sam Kirmayer, plays straight-ahead jazz with “ fearlessness and momentum” – Katie alloch (CBC Jazz Beat & Tonic) . One of CBC Music’s picks for the “ 35 best Canadian jazz musicians under 35” , he has performed with some of Canada’s finest musicians including …
photo credit: Hamie Robitaille Montreal-based Rémi-Jean LeBlanc has been active on the Canadian music scene since 2005 and has collaborated with an array of musicians in Montreal and other Canadian cities including Yannick Rieu, Jean-Michel Pilc, Marianne Trudel, Steve Amirault, Carol Welsman and Elizabeth Shepherd. R-J has also toured with different projects in Europe, China, …
David Jean is a 19-year old guitar player and singer-songwriter with a jazz background. He has released a solo album and is continuing his artistic efforts in many directions such as arranging and producing. Although rock music is his predominant direction, he still very much loves to play in any kind of genre or …
Join us for our Season 9 opener! A great kick-off with the vibrant sound of Latin Jazz featuring La Banda Local. La Banda Local is a sextet of musicians with roots in the Waterloo Region assembled for the special opening night of the Grand River Jazz Society’s ninth season at the Jazz Room in the …
Luis Deniz, a winner of the Grand Prix de Jazz General Motors 2006 at the Montreal Jazz Festival (David Virelles Quintet) and Galaxie Rising Star 2010 at the Halifax Jazz Festival (Rich Brown & Rinsethealgorithm), Grammy Nominated and Juno Award Winning (Hilario Duran Latin Jazz Big Band), alto saxophonist Luis Gonzalez Deniz was born …
Hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Thompson Egbo-Egbo is a pianist with a gift for memorable but harmonically complex compositions that have at their core a deep, abiding groove. A rambunctious and free spirit was channeled in a creative direction with piano lessons at an inner-city music school. After graduating from high school, Egbo-Egbo earned a degree …
Highly anticipated collaboration of the Penderecki Quartet and the Dave Young Trio – classical meets jazz, with original works and jazz standards! Features arrangements of Bach, Scriabin, Gershwin, Strayhorn and more. Photo by Daniel Nawrocki Multiple award-winning bassist, composer and Order of Canada recipient, Dave Young, is, without a doubt, one of Canada’s most valuable …
This year marks Art Blakey’s 100th birthday. He was born October 11, 1919, and died October 16, 1990. Norman has been performed Art Blakey Tributes annually since November 1990, shortly after Mr. Blakey’s death. Norman is passionate about Art Blakey’s style and even met him and was friends with him in Montreal. Félix Award winner, …
