041100 Oscar Peterson, Toronto, ON
April 11th, 2000 was the last time I had the honour and privilege to hear the great, great Oscar Peterson play the piano…
Tag: jazz
041000 The Dave Holland Quintet, Ottawa, ON
On April 10th, 2000 my good friend Wayne brought the Dave Holland Quintet to the Alumni Theatre at Carleton University…
020919 Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON
After a stellar show the night before (following a less-than-stellar show the night before that) on February 9th, 2019 I committed to see Kevin Breit’s third and final show at the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s brief winter fest…
020125 Big Space/High & Lonesome, St. John’s, NL
Big Space are just so damn good that I simply cannot help being enthralled…
012806 John Geggie, Cuong Vu, and Kevin Breit, Ottawa, ON
When I was in my first year of university one of my profs arranged a jazz trio to play for one of our classes. I only remember one member of the trio – John Geggie – but I remember his performance that afternoon in my mind’s eye as vividly as if it were yesterday…
122124 Big Space, St. John’s, NL
In what seems to be our new Christmas tradition, on December 21st, 2024 m’lady and I drove to St. John’s to see instrumental trio extraordinaire Big Space…
122023 Big Space, St. John’s, NL
Big Space is a drop-dead amazing prog-fusion instrumental trio…
100524 Big Space, St. John’s
The band was on fire…
030305 Milligan-Eagles Project, Ottawa, ON
Early in the new millennium a bass player named Mike Milligan landed in Ottawa and my good friend Wayne scooped him up right away…
021398 Oliver Jones/George Shearing, Ottawa, ON
Oh, how I wish this ticket was as it appears to be…
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