Jazz
Blue Season Announce Debut EP 'Live Session 918'
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2022
Toronto-based jazz quintet Blue Season have announced plans for their debut EP Live Session 918, recorded, as the title suggests, live off...
Sade Are Recording New Music
PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2022
Sade have yet to release a follow-up to 2010's Soldier of Love, but it's been reported that the singer and her eponymous group have been at...
'Aja' at 45: How the Darcys' Tribute Album Put Them a Decade Ahead of the Steely Dan Revival
PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2022
Following last month's news that Steely Dan's studio catalogue would be treated to new audiophile-grade vinyl and CD reissues, the question...
Winnipeg's Super Duty Tough Work Sign to Next Door Records, Share New Single "First Strike"
PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022
Super Duty Tough Work have their noses back to the grindstone: the Winnipeg-formed art-rap collective have officially signed to Next Door R...
Pharoah Sanders Dead at 81
PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2022
Legendary jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders has died. He was 81. The news was announced by David Byrne's Luaka Bop, the label that released...
The Comet Is Coming Seek Rapture in Rhythm on the Cosmic 'Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam'
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2022
Since their debut, the Comet Is Coming has flipped the script on what a jazz trio can muster. Comprised of Shabaka Hutchings (sax and shaku...
Makaya McCraven's Illuminating 'In These Times' Is a Crate Digger's Paradise
PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2022
Anyone familiar with the work of Makaya McCraven has an idea of what to expect from In These Times, his 2022 full-length effort for contemp...
Badge Époque Ensemble Expand Their Compositional Horizons on 'Clouds of Joy'
PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2022
Not unlike the meteorological namesake of Clouds of Joy, their third full-length album, Badge Époque Ensemble have taken a handful of diffe...