Review: Tania Gill Quartet, “Disappearing Curiosities”
Jazz is all too often relegated to background-music status, befitting a classy event or a nice dinner out, perhaps, but not music that begs…
Jazz is all too often relegated to background-music status, befitting a classy event or a nice dinner out, perhaps, but not music that begs…
March is here, and with it, the knowledge that the long-awaited desire for the next season is just around the corner. But, while it…
One of the goals here at Team GDW this year (in addition to hoping for a safer global community and a return to live…
As Martin prepares to reveal his Final Four Albums of the Year tomorrow (and having already listed his Twenty Favorite Singles and Albums over…
As we approach the final week of 2021, my mind has a flashback to March 2020, when our lives were turned upside down. Daily…
The restrictions resulting from the breakout of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 placed a hiatus on our concert-going adventures, which in turn halted our…
Like so many other musicians, the COVID pandemic forced Toronto jazz pianist Jim Clayton (shown above with daughter Lenny) to pivot from his normal…
How crazy is it that another year has almost passed us by? Another ‘pandemic filled’ year, no less, but once again, the sheer volume…
Appreciating jazz is something that came to me later as my taste in music evolved. And as much as I have come to enjoy…
Comfort zones: we all have them, and we are often hesitant to leave them. But experience gives proof that venturing outside them is frequently…