Thank you, one and all, for your fantastic support in our first half-decade! We will host a couple of Uptown Jazz Festival events on July 16th, and then re-open with a triple header on Sept 9 / 10 / 11 … Stay tuned for all the details!
Bring your own instruments and jam with Snaggle! Often described as Canada’s answer to Snarky Puppy, Snaggle combines influences from jazz, rock, metal, classical and everything else they can get their hands to create their own brash and infectious brand of hard funk. With influences ranging from Miles Davis to Rage Against the …
Jazz and Beyond Improvisation Concepts with Levon Ichkhanian An exploration of Improvisation in Jazz and World Music concepts. An in-depth look at: Modes, Middle-Eastern scales, and, the similarities and differences between them in: Theory, Rhythmic and Melodic patterns. Bring your instrument! Guitarist Levon Ichkhanian was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon, of Armenian …
SPECIAL 10 PM SHOW, as part of Open Ears 2016! Free for GRJS Passholders! Atonal “12-tone” music gets funked up by the Kyle Brenders Big Band. 2016 Juno Award winner Allison Au opens. Perhaps no single movement in western music has fractured and divided audiences, performers and composers alike as the rise of serial, …
Thanks to McIntyre Team Realty for sponsoring Mark Kelso’s Jazz Exiles The Jazz Exiles is an exciting new super group formed by drummer/composer Mark Kelso. Featuring Torontonheavyweights Rich Brown on bass, Robi Botos on keys, Luis Deniz on sax and newcomer Joey Martel on guitar, this group plays original music that is exciting & wild, …
“She is, to me, the perfect balance of fragile beauty and a burning intensity that makes her and her music irresistible.” – Don Thompson (Canadian Jazz Giant, Order of Canada) “A lovely muse of music…a femme fatale from film noir…jazz improvisation at its best…that’s Geneviève “Gigi” Marentette” – Don Franks (Actor, musician) “This fresh new jazz singer …
Modeled after the great Django Reinhardt, François Jalbert made his own name by taking first place in the Montreal Guitar Grand Prix in 2006 and 2008 in the jazz category. The young Québécois musician and composer returns to the Jazz Room with his quartet and compositions from Sens unique, his first album as a bandleader. …
Thanks To Lori and Peter Gove for sponsoring Spin Cycle Spin Cycle, the new band led by saxophonist Tom Christensen and drummer Scott Neumann, plays an eclectic blend of hard hitting original music composed by the members of the band, four veterans of the New York City freelance jazz scene. Each member has recorded multiple …
“The Australian piano whiz..” –Stephen Holden, The New York Times, Oct 2014 “Baker has a playful approach to melody, particularly on the standards that he interprets with Joe Sanders and Gregory Hutchinson.” –Shaun Brady, DOWNBEAT Magazine, March 2012 “Swings confidently … full of clever reharmonizations and hip syncopation. The threesome demonstrates seamless group chemistry.” …
The Jerzy Kaplanek Quartet will pay tribute to Polish jazz violinist, masterful improviser Zbigniew Seifert. In his early years, Seifert (know as “Zbiggy”), was trained as a classical violinist but played jazz on alto saxophone. He was strongly influenced by John Coltrane and it was not until his early twenties when he adopted the jazz …
