Jazz Chronicles

Two of Canada's most creative musicians—Roberto and Michael Occhipinti—are heading to their parents' birthplace to receive the prest...

Has there been such a spate of notable music deaths in the past three decades? I can't recall such a bad spell. Some deaths, like those ...

No proper vacation this year; not even a stay cation. Unexpected, major, non-music project kicking in, however, so posts will be light—if no...

Until July 27, BBC 3 is featuring a long, illuminative interview of Keith Jarrett by fellow pianist Ethan Iverson. As noted by my colleague...

Some lead, some follow... at least that's the usual tradition in music. For every Miles Davis—who grabbed the reins of leadership after ...

A Facebook post by music writer Mikal Gilmore this morning has me thinking about music that sounds both totally foreign and strangely famili...

We're into the post-festival dog days — always prime listening time. Here's what's on my playlist right now: The Henrys — Is Thi...

Here's the official news release about the welcome re-birth of JazzTimes : Madavor Media Acquires JazzTimes With the mainstream media sw...

As reported by Ben Ratliff in the New York Times , Jazz Times will soon be back in circulation, thanks to its purchase by a Boston-based p...

A week after would-be music journalist Jeff Heinrich set off a viral storm with his hatchet-job on Maria Schneider, another Canwest writer h...

Sad news this morning that one of Canada's leading jazz enthusiasts and a passionate oral historian of music in Montreal has died. Len D...

I don't know what triggered this memory this morning, but I suddenly started thinking about albums I distinctly remembered hearing for t...

My view of the 2009 TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival often seemed somewhat circumscribed by my duties in the media cube ad...

Just hours after I joked that The Bad Plus should change their name to The Bad Weather (the air was chilly and the sky dark during their sou...

Nothing gets under my skin much more than people who diss music criticism without naming names. Oscar Peterson and Ron Carter are two high-p...

The rain continues to fall in Ottawa. The ongoing downpours throughout the week and the rising water table can be measured in the area adjac...

Ah, decisions, decisions... whether to catch Trio M with Matt Wilson, Myra Melford and Mark Dresser or the Wayne Shorter Quartet with Brian ...

I finally took some time away from the media trailer to sit down and listen to an entire performance last night, and was rewarded with a bea...

Those of us who toil on the jazz fest circuit know that there are few better people to encounter on the road than the musicians in the Maria...

Not blogging from the festival site as much as I'd hoped due to a dodgy wireless connection, but storing up lots of interesting experien...