The Live Music Report
May 2005 |
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| Buffy St. Marie |
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...What an entertainer this woman is! Her set list, her stage presence, and the style of her delivery...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Veda Hille and her Skilled and Devoted Band |
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...Veda does her onstage thing naturally. Her songs are often backed by arrangements so quiet a camera flash could shatter them...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| The Art of Time Ensemble |
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...Burashko’s energetic playing brought out the fluidity, the rhythmic moodiness, and the passionate, colourful complexity of the pieces...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Quagmyre Of Cabbages and Kings |
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...Generally, Of Cabbages and Kings has, like the name suggests, a lot of things in it: instrumentals and vocals...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| The Joe Lovano Quartet |
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...Lovano’s tenor comes swirling out of the gate running in little circles, braying like a bull...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Brian Auger | Joey DeFrancesco |
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...A dripping Brian Auger, who I thought was exhausted at this point, pours himself into the piece...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Underworlds | Eurydice Variations |
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...Red Sky's Underworlds opened. It's the story of Cheeby-Aub-Oozoo, an Ojibway (Anishnaabe) hero who ventures to the Underworld...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Victoriaville Toronto Overdrive 5 |
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| Xu Fengxia |
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...she gathered us into an empty space of sound where taut and brittle notes are suddenly a swept waterfall of notes...
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| by David Fujino & Roger Humbert |
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| Jerry Granelli Septet Sandhills Reunion |
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...just as I thought, if Granelli's behind it, we'd be guided through an evening of evocative and mood-shifting music...
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| by David Fujino & Roger Humbert |
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| The Nels Cline Singers |
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...You have to listen hard to a group like The Nels Cline Singers. If you don't, it'll sound like a lot of racket...
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| by David Fujino & Roger Humbert |
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| Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet |
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...No one knows quite what we are about to hear, this is the Peter Brotzmann Tentet. We do know it will be intense, improvised, on the edge and alive...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Hubbub | The Queen Mab Trio |
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Consolidation and fragmentation were on show at Toronto’s Goethe Institut on Tuesday night as the fifth edition of the VTO Festival concluded...
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| by Ken Waxman & Susan O'Connor |
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| Theatre |
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| Adult Entertainment |
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...In a play entitled Adult Entertainment you get what you expect: sex and violence, lies and cover-ups, deceit and drunkenness...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| End of Civilization |
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...The dialogues between husband and wife inevitably seize up like an overheated machine because they are no longer a couple...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Hedda Gabler |
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...the women are dressed in solid colours: Hedda Gabler (Yanna McIntosh) is in a solid red dress...
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| by David Fujino |
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