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To my mind there is no greater compliment that can be given to a pop star than for a bunch of jazz heavies to give their catalogue the treatment…
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To my mind there is no greater compliment that can be given to a pop star than for a bunch of jazz heavies to give their catalogue the treatment…
I write for several reasons…
As I stood on the lawn of Confederation Park and watched Roy Hargrove’s headlining set, I couldn’t possibly have imagined that…
Not only was the legendary guitar player playing at his very best, he had also put together a star-studded swampy-gospel blues/funk New Orleans-based band…
I couldn’t even begin to guess how many times I saw Sharon Jones…
So there I was standing amongst many of my like-minded jazzy friends, a fistful of plastic cups in my mitt, watching Wayne Shorter, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade play live music not a hundred feet away…
On June 30th, 2013 Wayne Shorter took me to church…
I can report a couple of things…
Can it be that June 28th, 2010 was the last time I saw Medeski, Martin & Wood…
Aretha Franklin was forced to cancel her Ottawa jazz festival performance just three weeks before the show. And can you believe that the festival actually managed to book a replacement…