“Utterly unique” – CBC Radio One Toronto-based musician, Louis Simão has been composing, performing and recording as a multi-instrumentalist in a variety of genres for twenty years. 2016 marked the release of his much-anticipated solo album, “A Luz” (The Light) – a collection of Simão’s own compositions and arrangements. Joined by the best …
Hailed by The Toronto Star as Canada’s Gershwin brothers and with songs “worthy of inclusion in the Great American Songbook,” according to CBC Radio, the Breithaupt Brothers – Don (music), Jeff (lyrics) – released the universally acclaimed Just Passing Through: The Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Vol. II on Alma Records in 2014. Brothers Jeff and Don …
Ted Quinlan is regarded as one of the most versatile guitar players in Canada. His skills are highly in demand as a jazz player, session musician, writer and educator. Ted is the Head of the Guitar Department at Humber College’s Music Program in Toronto. As a busy sideman Ted has performed with Chet Baker, …
A prolific songwriter, Lily Frost currently has 12 albums under her belt, under 5 different labels — Warner, Nettwerk, Aporia, Boxton and Marquis. Lily Frost comes from the Montreal underground mod scene. She moved to Vancouver and went from busking rockabilly to spearheading the Cocktail nation with her band The Colorifics who led the Blue …
Guitarist Trevor Giancola is becoming a staple of Toronto’s thriving jazz and creative music scene. He has performed as a member the Mike Murley Quartet, the Kelly Jefferson Quartet, Boptarts featuring Seamus Blake, Trevor Falls Collective, The Trevor Giancola Quartet and Trio, Josh Cole 4tet, Monk’s Music, and others. He has shared the stage with …
Join us for a very special show, featuring not only Jason’s one and only Funktet doing a full live show, but the launch of the new CD “The Jason Raso Funktet Live At The Jazz Room”! Recorded live earlier this year, the new album brings together the same Funktet that will be performing at this …
It’s smart, it’s soulful, it’s jazz. For every style of music that Johanna Sillanpaa explores, there’s a vibrant color in her voice to match. Sillanpaa’s vocals are expertly clear, gently raw, and yet intensely bold. She performs thoughtful jazz you can dig your heels into. She and her ensemble have played everywhere from intimate jazz …
This contemplative and often thrilling quartet’s explorations of modern, original repertoire is led by a fast-rising star in Toronto’s jazz piano community, 26 year old NICK MACLEAN. Formed in 2016, Maclean’s foursome delivers jazz between the two poles of thoughtful introspection and powerhouse conveyance, taking influences from Herbie Hancock’s primordial 1960’s Blue Note era recordings, …
“Card’s musical sensibility is fully formed and urbane. His writing reflects a sense of history and is therefore worldly wise.” -Raul d’Gama Rose- All About Jazz Harley Card is a Toronto based guitarist and composer. In addition to leading his own groups, Harley is a member of and co-composer for the innovative Canadian bands; …
Entering its 32nd year as a band, Top Pocket has been a big draw on the local (Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph) music scene for many years. With two albums to their credit [2014’s “11:11” and 2016’s “rocket in my (top) pocket”] they are known for performing ALL ORIGINAL material that runs the gamut from bebop, to …
