061915 Lisa Fischer/Kaleidoscope Orchestra, Ottawa, ON
Surely you’ve heard of Sting? Nine Inch Nails? The great Tina Turner? How about The Rolling Stones? Well, meet their backup singer, Lisa Fischer…
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020919 Together Ensemble, Ottawa, ON
Aside from loving the band’s name, I love the band…
020119 Gryphon Trio with Nordic Voices/Roddy Elias Trio, Ottawa, ON
Considering I had awoken that morning with no live music planned for the day it turned out to be a pretty darn fine evening…
082411 Surprise Me Mr. Davis, Ottawa, ON
We danced, we stared, we high-fived, we drank, we laughed…
063013 Wayne Shorter/Rob Frayne’s Dreamband, Ottawa, ON
On June 30th, 2013 Wayne Shorter took me to church…
062415 Huey Lewis and the News/The Sun Crescent Barbeque Stompers, Ottawa, ON
One really great element of Ottawa’s annual jazz festival that I often overlook in these missives are the free lunchtime concerts that happen daily in (or around) Confederation Park…
032598 Chess, Ottawa, ON
“From square one I’ll be watching you…”
100403 Megan and Mike’s Wedding, Ottawa, ON
Though I’ve been to some awesome weddings Mike and Megan’s was the only one that felt like a concert, and a really good one at that…
032699 Little Shop of Horrors, Ottawa, ON
I don’t remember exactly how I got snared into the role of musical director for a run of Tim Rice’s Chess that was mounted by my university’s theatre troupe but when I did I soon found out that theatre had an even worse effort-to-money ratio than playing rock & roll did, a truism that I could hardly believe was possible.
Anyway, the fact that I signed up to do it again a year later brings to mind that old “Fool me once…” saying, but the truth is…
Bob Loblaw – Monkey Do
Back in the mid-’90’s I was part of a really interesting Ottawa freakrock band called Bob Loblaw. In 1996 we rented some recording equipment, set it up in the living room, and spent an intense week creating our only album – Monkey Do – which we released on cassette. For the record, Arrested Development didn’t start airing until 2003.
Todd Man Out 