The Live Music Report
November/December 2008 |
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| Focus – Jazz Bassists |
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| rinsethealgorithm Locutions |
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... in his playing, he is agile and graceful and bluesy and lovely and mean! ...
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| by Zoë Guigueno & Roger Humbert |
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| Justin Gray Project |
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... Judged solely on composition Gray has a very strong voice. He uses odd meters very musically ...
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| by Christopher Butcher & Roger Humbert |
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| Christian Weber |
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First, he stroked the whole frame of his bass ...
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| by Tom Sekowski |
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| Roberto Occhipinti Quartet A Bend in the River |
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... Occhipinti’s newest CD is entitled A Bend in the River. It’s his fourth release as a leader and his second on Alma records ...
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| by Christopher Butcher & Roger Humbert |
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| Alain Bédard & Auguste Quintet |
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... All the while, Bédard's pizzicato was firmly yet unobtrusively underscoring and driving things along ...
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| by David Fujino & Mike Colyer |
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| Concerts |
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| Changuito & The T.O. Cubans All-Stars |
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... ‘Changuito’ Quintana is considered the man most responsible for the polyrhythmic foundation of Cuban salsa and timba ...
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| by Afro P. & Roger Humbert |
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| Ensemble contemporain de Montréal |
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... modern and new music compositions are best understood and enjoyed when they are listened to and directly experienced ...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Tyler Yarema and his Rhythm |
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... Yarema arrives on stage on fire and flambés his way through a musical odyssey of Jazz, Jump-Jazz, Boogie-Woogie and Stride ...
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| by Laila Boulos & Mike Colyer |
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| The Montreal Stockhausen Project |
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... A legend of the European avant-garde music scene, Stockhausen used all kinds of abstract and concrete sounds as the brickwork for his visionary music ...
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| by Jessica Lombardi |
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| Music for the Soul |
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... 26 choristers from the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the 20-piece Tallinn Chamber Orchestra shared ...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Lubo & Kaba Horo |
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... The funk infusions gave the younger dancers something to sink their hips into ...
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| by Tova G. Kardonne & Roger Humbert |
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| Barnyard Records CD Launch Concert |
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... Knotty and dissonant passages gradually grew consonant before thickening again into an intense duologue ...
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| by David Fujino & Mike Colyer |
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| The Wayne Shorter Quartet |
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... It is as if Shorter started a conversation on stage that night. An exchange that was exuberant and meditative, witty and introspective, joyous and melancholic ...
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| by Aline Badr |
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| Noah Zacharin |
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... It is clear he is not afraid to experiment and that pushing himself as an artist ...
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| by Laura Fernandez & John Travis |
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| Flory Jagoda |
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... Jagoda sang of daughters locked away from the ardent young upstarts who pursue them, of the rescue of a beautiful kidnapped maiden ...
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| by Tova G. Kardonne |
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| Aki Onda, Alan Licht & Michael Snow |
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... Questions were popping at me from left and right. Would this trio work? Can three minds coming from different experiences stomp on common ground? ...
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| by Tom Sekowski |
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| Sheila Escovedo |
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... Sheila E. hit the stage at about 2:00 a.m. and set the place ablaze with her hits, like “The Glamour Life” and “A Love Bizarre” ...
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| by Afro P. |
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| Gary Morgan and Panamericana! |
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... Composer, arranger and bandleader Gary Morgan was born in Chile but spent a good part of his life here in Toronto before moving to New York and...
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| by Laura Fernandez & Richard Jacobson |
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| Toronto Indo-Jazz Festival |
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| Saawun & Monsoon |
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... The unity of intention was seamless, as though one instrument played a many-tiered improvised piece, brightening its timbre from flute to sax ...
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| by Tova G. Kardonne & Roger Humbert |
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| Tasa |
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... Naimpally shone as a bandleader, assembling these very talented musicians into a cohesive unit playing this complex synthesis of many types of music ...
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| by Christopher Butcher & Mike Colyer |
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