Category: Concert Reviews – Archive

November 8, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Foundry 616, November 4 Cuba produces brilliant musicians at almost the same rate it does cigars, and it stands out among those countries – including as Turkey, Brazil, Ethiopia and South Africa – to enrich jazz as well as borrow from it. The Canadian soprano saxophonist/ flautist Jane Bunnett has…

November 6, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

The Basement, October 25 How many members of a group should be alive and present for the use of the band’s name to be valid? The Mills Brothers, for instance, performed here with one Brother and three rope-ins. Seriously. As it turns 50 Canned Heat has two almost original members…

November 2, 2015 / Concert Reviews - Archive

Camelot, October 27 Sound and colour, the arts’ great abstractions, are inextricably linked. Even the terminology overlaps, including tone, chromaticism, brightness, darkness and composition. As Jim Moginie (of Midnight Oil fame) told us in prefacing this album launch, Schoenberg wanted to be an artist and Kandinsky a musician. Countless musicians…