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A quick link - Carl (Zoilus) Wilson has a rather thorough five part recap of the Experience Music Project Pop Conference, and raises ma...

Apologies for the protracted absence again, dear readers; between rehearsals, gigs, technical glitches, and life, I've been away from th...

World Skip the Beat - FUNDING DRIVE edition Hosts: Shawn Kennedy & David Ryshpan Milton Trio Banana - "Alegria, Alegria" (...

The great jazz composer and pianist Andrew Hill lost his battle with lung cancer this morning. He was 75. I was a latecomer to Andrew Hill...

This nor'easter may or may not put a damper on my travel to the BMI reading on Tuesday. I'll only know early tomorrow morning whethe...

So, as Mwanji mentioned in an earlier comment, this past Wednesday Indigone Trio went down to the National Arts Centre in Ottawa to particip...

The venerated and controversial satirist, Kurt Vonnegut, has passed away at age 84. Unlike many people, I didn't read Vonnegut in high s...

A quick plug/announcement: Some may know that I'm a big Bruce Hornsby fan, well beyond "The Way It Is." If you haven't he...

It saddens me that the 100th post in this blog is dedicated to the theft of instruments. Patrick Krief , a Montreal multi-instrumentalist pr...

Via Ethan and Dan , who got it from Jeff Parker , a great 1968 DownBeat piece by Wayne Shorter, "Creativity and Change." One pre...

...to the blogroll, that is. I've belatedly added Peter Breslin's Stochasticactus to the list; like me, he's a musician/radio j...

- My review of the Boxhead Ensemble's Nocturnes (featuring V5 cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and Atavistic stalwart drummer Frank Rosaly is ...

I went to see Karkwa last night, continuing the tour behind their album Les tremblements s'immobilisent . The last time I saw the band ...

As have been rightfully linked throughout the jazz blog world, Mwanji's two essays on jazz and race are fantastic and important readin...

Much is being made in the blogosphere of the current state of jazz, vis-à-vis education and marketing. I dealt with some of these issues...

- Via Dan , an incisive and insightful Vijay Iyer essay at All About Jazz . Finally, someone who can thoughtfully talk about the state of j...

As a rule, I have tried to keep this blog apolitical. There's many great resources out there, far more knowledgeable and engaged than I ...

Ethan's interview with Stanley Crouch, David R. Adler's review of Crouch's compilation Considering Genius , and various other b...

Commuting's a bitch. The upshot of delayed flights: complimentary drinks. After scrambling all weekend to find a flight to get to the BM...

In March, Indigone Trio will be playing every Thursday from 6-8 pm at Le Parc des Princes , a new bistro up in the Mile-End neighbourhood (5...