
Paul Bley was a Montreal-born jazz pianist who redefined piano jazz and who, someone pointed out, literally invented Keith Jarrett. While on...
Paul Bley was a Montreal-born jazz pianist who redefined piano jazz and who, someone pointed out, literally invented Keith Jarrett. While on...
It's not often that a contemporary work presents such a seamless integration of so many elements in such an inspired fashion. exclusiveOR (S...
Bill Orcutt's distinctive Americana take on guitar balances the ornery axes of John Fahey, Thurston Moore and collaborator Alan Licht. The m...
Lea Bertucci is an accomplished saxophonist, sound designer and minimalist composer based in New York City. She is the recipient of many hon...
Black to Comm, aka Marc Richter, has produced rugged and disturbing works of sample manipulation, standing like a dystopian monoliths in a g...
Fongola, by KOKOKO! is one of those things that makes you stand back and ask "Whoa, how did this happen?" The answer is as simple and as...
There were a couple of weird anomalies surrounding this gig. One, that it's being presented under the banner of the Montreal International J...
Mastery is a tricky concept — it has to encompass inspiration, evolution, technique, grace, effortlessness and not a little wisdom, all made...
This is a tight and ferocious work marrying advanced string section composition and a smoking, groove-heavy rock-jazz fusion unit. Pianist D...
Andrew Cyrille, Dave Douglas and Uri Caine comprise a serious power trio when it comes to their stature in the jazz art music community. Eac...
Brazilian composer/pianist Tiago Frugoli's take on jazz has a distinct hybrid feel to it. While there is the expected attention to groove an...
Teenages represents quite a shift from the dark minimalism of Naqvi's work as a drummer in Dawn of Midi. Where similarities lie is with tex...
The re-release of this admittedly straight-ahead jazz album (originally released in 1958) comes as a breath of fresh air into the sonic worl...
There are numerous touchstones in this music from Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society that seem to span the Afro-Asian spectrum al...
There is more than a passing nod, on this release, to the experiments in free jazz/electronic/hip-hop fusion conducted by Matthew Shipp on t...
This is a remarkably contemporary sounding work for something released in 1978. David Behrman's groundbreaking research into interactive, co...
Bassist/composer Rob Clutton's emergence as a bandleader is an example of the singular visions that have been blooming in Toronto over the l...
First and foremost: this is a jazz album, the way jazz was intended: "the sound of surprise." What we don't have here is a byzantine theoret...
When you listen to this release, and most other African modern music from the '80s and '90s, the question that seems to keep cropping up is...
The Residents wasted no time bringing their dadaist menace to the Mod Club on Thursday night. From the moment the four members walked on to...