Kathleen Edwards occasionally announces a show in Toronto last minute, not advertising far beyond her Facebook page, and sometimes without any advance tickets. So I was surprised to find a pretty short line-up when I got to the Dakota last […]
Hurricane Irene wiped out both days of NYC’s annual Charlie Parker Jazz Fest — but not the avant-garde/glance at the past show of post-Coltranesque Archie Shepp, Israeli-born woodwinder Anat Cohen, hipster pianist Gerald Clayton and one-time busker Madeleine Peyroux available […]
Fearing Hurricane Irene, New York City suspended everything last weekend (Aug 27-28) including the two-day, two-location Charlie Parker Jazz Festival. But not my online video Charlie Parker Jazz fest, a humble video-clip stand-in for live sets by harmonica-and-guitarist Toots Thielemans, saxophonist colossus […]
I’m not a music critic but I always thought there should be 3 columns for those of you that are. 1) Required Listening – music one must hear from bands that are somewhat well known to extremely well known, 2) […]
Tom Freund has been a part of my Venice for as long as I can remember. His latest album, The Edge Of Venice, gave us a good excuse to sit down and talk about our Venice, and his music that […]
Because everybody needs to know that they are being heard. Because if somebody is going to make the effort and incur the expense of sending me their CD, the least I can do is to listen with an open ear […]
Sometimes I find I get to thinking of the past.We swore to each other then that our love would surely last.You kept right on loving, I went on a fast,now I am too thin and your love is too vast.But […]
I’ll credit Digital Music News for this clever little cartoon on one fan’s dilemma for trying to support his favorite musician.
Five years on from Home Movie his debut with the Fallen Hearts, Mat Gibson has a new mini-album set for release on Clubhouse Records early next month, anyone familiar with Clubhouse’ excellent UK Americana compilation Divided By A Common Language […]
Daniel Lanois probably isn’t Hamilton’s most famous son–that honor might belong to Tim Horton, a man who wasn’t born there but whose ubiquitous coffee and doughnut stores now dot the Canadian landscape–but he probably should be. Known around the world […]
