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Six questions for Brandi Disterheft
The young Canadian bassist Brandi Disterheft has so much going on — singing on top of holding down the bottom end on her instrument, recording with jazz heavyweights Renee Rosnes and Vincent Herring...
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Canada-U.S. jazz relations (CD reviews)
Come Together (JH Productions) Braden/Michels Project If someone had told me five years ago that Toronto vocalist Julie Michels and the New Jersey-based saxophonist Don Braden would be making...
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Congrats to the 2014 Jazz JUNO Award nominees
Congrats to this year’s nominees for jazz-related Juno Awards, which were announced this morning. Here are the lists, plus some quickie commentary from me. CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR...
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A shoutout from Darcy James Argue to his fellow Juno nominees
I’ve pulled the big quotation below from Darcy James Argue’s Facebook writings — it does say “share” beneath it, after all. The reason: what the Brooklyn-based Canadian expat wrote speaks to the...
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