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Peter Hum of the Ottawa Citizen on how Canadian jazz musicians have been affected by the PromArt cuts. The funding cuts have opened the who...

The big cultural news in Canada is that our wonderful Conservative government has axed two major arts funding initiatives. The first, PromAr...

Bloody hell. Muxtape is down , courtesy of the friendly folks at the RIAA. Just another installment of old media having jumped the shark an...

Via James Hale , I read that the third member of the Atlantic Records triumvirate, Jerry Wexler, has passed at the age of 91. His tombstone ...

8 CDs worth of good things, in fact. Via WFMU (via Destination: Out ), Mosaic is putting together a box of Anthony Braxton's Arista Ye...

It's been an arts-community filled weekend for me. Saturday night was Indyish 's second anniversary, an occasion calling for a ...

There's way too many posts about stolen instruments. It always sucks to write them and read them. After rocking Osheaga, Iggy Pop & ...

I'm late, way late on this, but I wish I had been there. Chris "Daddy" Dave and Friends (including Robert Glasper, Casey Benja...

When I first heard that the Boban Markovic Orkestar was coming to town, I thought La Tulipe was a strange choice of venue. A rock club on t...

- Most of the Suoni Per Il Popolo reviews are up at Panpot . I also reviewed the Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser and Hard Cell Suoni concerts for ...

The discussion that Darcy has prompted from this post is a debate I've had internally and with colleagues for many years. What is the r...

Day 7 2 pm : Press conference with Jim West, head of Justin Time Records, Oliver Jones, and Trevor Payne, leader of the Montreal Jubilation ...

Yesterday was Canada Day, also known in Quebec as Moving Day . Thankfully I was not moving, nor was I helping anybody else move. Via Darcy ,...

Ain't no party like a Bran Van party 'cause a Bran Van party don't stop. Snagged a sweet spot up on the press patio, not having...

2 pm : Public Enemy press conference. Chuck D held court on the border, the environment, Barack Obama, race in America, the music industry, ...

Day 3 Due to other commitments I could only catch one set of Steamboat Switzerland, a Swiss power trio of Hammond organ, electric bass and d...

2 pm: Hank Jones press conference. I hope to be half as elegant, witty and musical at half his age. 3 pm: Prep charts, warm up, zone in, e...

2 pm : Get down to the JazzFest site. Fulfill press room duties. See Gilberto Gil walk by. 2:30 pm : Check out the Djembe jam at the SIMM (M...

Suoni Per Il Popolo reviews are trickling in over at Panpot . My reviews of Roswell Rudd/Mark Dresser and Hard Cell, earlier in the festival...

My Ropeadope brethren asked me to do a podcast of my picks at this year's Jazz Fest. I obliged them . PLAYLIST Gilberto Gil - Eu Só Que...