Volume 24 Issue 7 - April 2019
Arraymusic, the Music Gallery and Native Women in the Arts join for a mini-festival celebrating the work of composer, performer and installation artist Raven Chacon; Music and Health looks at the role of Healing Arts Ontario in supporting concerts in care facilities; Kingston-based composer Marjan Mozetich's life and work are celebrated in film; "Forest Bathing" recontextualizes Schumann, Shostakovich and Hindemith; in Judy Loman's hands, the harp can sing; Mahler's Resurrection bursts the bounds of symphonic form; Ed Bickert, guitar master remembered. All this and more in our April issue, now online in flip-through here, and on stands commencing Friday March 29.
Arraymusic, the Music Gallery and Native Women in the Arts join for a mini-festival celebrating the work of composer, performer and installation artist Raven Chacon; Music and Health looks at the role of Healing Arts Ontario in supporting concerts in care facilities; Kingston-based composer Marjan Mozetich's life and work are celebrated in film; "Forest Bathing" recontextualizes Schumann, Shostakovich and Hindemith; in Judy Loman's hands, the harp can sing; Mahler's Resurrection bursts the bounds of symphonic form; Ed Bickert, guitar master remembered. All this and more in our April issue, now online in flip-through here, and on stands commencing Friday March 29.
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for Felder, who shares their penchant for groove, melodicism, and a<br />
decidedly electric aesthetic that touches on jazz, rock and R&B.<br />
Second, the established: on <strong>April</strong> 14, bassist Dave Young, who<br />
performed and recorded, at various points, with Bickert, Lofsky and<br />
Peterson, amongst myriad other jazz luminaries, brings his quartet<br />
to The Rex. He is joined by trumpeter Kevin Turcotte, drummer Terry<br />
Clarke and guitarist Reg Schwager. Schwager, a first-call player for<br />
many of Canada’s top jazz singers, has an incredible command of<br />
the idiomatic language of classic jazz, and plays with a warm, round<br />
tone. Performing later in the month with the Barry Romberg Group,<br />
guitarist Geoff Young – who, as a faculty member at the University of<br />
Toronto’s jazz program, has taught many of Toronto’s most exciting<br />
young guitarists – is a dynamic, multifaceted guitarist, a thrilling<br />
improviser, and, like Bickert, a dedicated Fender player, whose biting,<br />
rock-tinged tone works to complement the sweeping lyricism of his<br />
phrasing.<br />
Elsewhere<br />
<strong>April</strong> will also see some other notable guitar performances at venues<br />
outside of The Rex. On <strong>April</strong> 17, the Virginia and Kirk MacDonald<br />
Quartet plays at the Old Mill’s Home Smith Bar. Virginia – an increasingly<br />
busy clarinettist, band leader, and the daughter of Toronto<br />
jazz scene mainstay Kirk – has collaborated with her father before,<br />
on the recent album Generations, featuring pianist Harold Mabern.<br />
The MacDonalds are joined at the Home Smith Bar by bassist Neil<br />
Swainson and guitarist Lucian Gray. Gray is a burgeoning master<br />
of the guitar stylings of Wes Montgomery, amongst other foundational<br />
figures, but his unique gift is his ability to make the classic<br />
sound new, vital and immediately exciting. In another part of town,<br />
and at a different end of the guitar-style spectrum, Luan Phung can<br />
be found on most Sunday afternoons playing trio at Poetry Jazz Café<br />
in Kensington Market. Aesthetically, Phung’s playing can be located<br />
in the school of modern jazz guitar, and is, at times, reminiscent of<br />
players such as Kurt Rosenwinkel and Ben Monder. But his deft touch,<br />
strong harmonic sensibility and searching improvisational tendencies<br />
mark a developing style all his own.<br />
Virginia and Kirk MacDonald at the Cape Breton Jazz Festival<br />
MAINLY CLUBS, MOSTLY JAZZ QUICKPICKS<br />
!!<br />
APR 4 AND 5, 9:30PM/9:45PM: Lorne Lofsky, The Rex. Lorne Lofsky appears with<br />
his stellar quartet for two nights of communicative jazz at The Rex.<br />
!!<br />
APR 9 AND 10, 9:30PM: Nir Felder and Tetrahedron, The Rex. American guitarist<br />
Nir Felder joins bassist Rich Brown, saxophonist Luis Deniz, and drummer Ernesto<br />
Cervini for two evenings of fusion-tinged jazz.<br />
!!<br />
APR 17: Virginia and Kirk MacDonald Quartet, Home Smith Bar. Father/daughter<br />
duo Virginia and Kirk MacDonald lead their quartet at The Home Smith Bar, with<br />
bassist Neil Swainson and exciting young guitarist Lucian Gray.<br />
!!<br />
MOST SUNDAYS, 4:30 TO 7:30: Luan Phung, Poetry Jazz Café. Hear burgeoning<br />
modern jazz guitarist Luan Phung at in an intimate, communicative trio setting in<br />
Kensington Market’s Poetry Jazz Café.<br />
Colin Story is a jazz guitarist, writer and teacher based in Toronto.<br />
He can be reached at www.colinstory.com, on Instagram and<br />
on Twitter.<br />
D. In the Clubs (Mostly Jazz)<br />
burdockto.com<br />
Ticket prices vary by show, but typically<br />
$10-$20; check website for individual show<br />
prices.<br />
Apr 1 6:30pm Suitcase Sam w/ Ada Dahli.<br />
Apr 2 9:30pm Typical Sisters & Future<br />
Machines. Apr 3 6:30pm Matt Epp & Bomgiizhik,<br />
9:30pm Nicolette & The Nobodies.<br />
Apr 4 9:30pm Megan Bonnell. Apr 5<br />
9:30pm pomes w/ Mingjia. Apr 6 6:30pm<br />
Jen Schaffer & The Shiners, 9:30pm Grizzly<br />
Coast w/ Brighter Green & Cassidy Mann.<br />
Apr 7 6:30pm Jeff Gunn. Apr 8 6:30pm<br />
Book Launch: The People’s Republic of Walmart.<br />
Apr 9 6:30pm Tim Moxam w/ Kelly<br />
Sloan. Apr 10 6:30pm Ian Bell & BanjoGo<br />
Boom!, 9:30pm Dante Matas, Zinnia &<br />
more. Apr 11 8:30pm Haus Musik: Strangers<br />
in Strange Lands. Apr 12 9:30pm Ian<br />
Daniel Kehoe & Steven Lambke w/ Joyful<br />
Joyful. Apr 13 6:30pm Richard Garvey w/<br />
The Sun Harmonic. Apr 14 6:30pm Bruno<br />
Merz, 9:15pm Ellen Doty. Apr 16 8pm MAW:<br />
A Community Celebration of the Vocal Arts.<br />
Apr 17 6:30pm Quote The Raven. Apr 18<br />
9:30pm Nadah El Shazly, ZOE & Qarafa.<br />
Apr 19 6:30pm Diar. Apr 20 9:30pm Hua Li<br />
& Crystal Light Collective. Apr 21 9:30pm<br />
Siggi. Apr 23 9:30pm Glands of External<br />
Secretion, Brian Ruryk, Agar Agar<br />
& 6 Heads. Apr 26 6:30pm Sherry Ryan,<br />
9:30pm Saxsyndrum & Sorry Girls. Apr 27<br />
9:30pm Friendly Rich.<br />
Cameron House<br />
408 Queen St. W. 416-703-0811<br />
thecameron.com<br />
Castro’s Lounge<br />
2116 Queen St. E. 416-699-8272<br />
castroslounge.com (full schedule)<br />
All shows: No cover/PWYC<br />
C’est What<br />
67 Front St. E. (416) 867-9499<br />
cestwhat.com (full schedule)<br />
All concerts are PWYC unless otherwise<br />
noted.<br />
Apr 5 9pm STEED! Apr 6 3pm Don Valley<br />
Stompers. Apr 7 7pm Women in Music:<br />
A Singer/Songwriter Showcase. Apr 12<br />
9pm Big Rude Jake. Apr 13 3pm The Hot<br />
Five Jazzmakers, 9pm Julia Tynes Band.<br />
Apr 14 5pm Power Pop Goes The Weasel<br />
Vol. 3. Apr 19 9pm Felix’s Belt and Big Name<br />
Actors. Apr 20 3pm The Boxcar Boys. Apr 21<br />
7pm Chris B.J. and Friends. Apr 25 9pm<br />
The Escapist Music, Jesse Daniel and Craig<br />
Alan. Apr 27 3pm The Hot Five Jazzmakers.<br />
Apr 28 7pm Matt Gabriel and Shanika Maria<br />
Live at C’est What.<br />
Emmet Ray, The<br />
9<strong>24</strong> College St. 416-792-4497<br />
theemmetray.com (full schedule)<br />
All shows: No cover/PWYC<br />
Grossman’s Tavern<br />
379 Spadina Ave. 416-977-7000<br />
grossmanstavern.com (full schedule)<br />
All shows: No cover (unless otherwise noted).<br />
Every Sat 4:30pm The Happy Pals Dixieland<br />
Jazz Jam. Every Sun 4:30pm New Orleans<br />
Connection All Star Band; 10pm Sunday Jam<br />
with Bill Hedefine. Every Wed 10pm Action<br />
Sound Band w/ Leo Valvassori.<br />
Hirut Cafe and Restaurant<br />
2050 Danforth Ave. 416-551-7560<br />
hirut.ca<br />
Every Sunday 3pm Hirut Sundays Open Mic.<br />
First and Third Tuesday 8pm Fingerstyle Guitar<br />
Association.<br />
Home Smith Bar – See Old Mill, The<br />
Hugh’s Room<br />
2261 Dundas St. W 416 533 5483<br />
hughsroom.com<br />
All shows at 8:30pm unless otherwise noted.<br />
See website for individual show prices.<br />
Apr 2 Diyet & The Love Soldiers. Apr 5 Alyth<br />
w/ Tony McManus & Friends. Apr 6 Benjamin<br />
Dakota Rogers. Apr 7 Oakland Stroke: A Tribute<br />
to Tower of Power. Apr 10 Lennie Gallant.<br />
Apr 11 Sweet Jane. Apr 12 Preston Reed.<br />
Apr 13 Jack de Keyzer. Apr 14 A Tribute to Levon<br />
Helm. Apr 15 10am Toronto Ravel Study, 8pm Eric<br />
Andersen & Scarlet Rivera w/ Cheryl Prashker.<br />
Apr 16 Lance & Jason Fowler. Apr 17 Joe Crookston.<br />
Apr 18 Byrds Byrds Byrds. Apr 20 Talent<br />
with special guest<br />
Alex Pangman<br />
Saturday <strong>April</strong> 20, 8:30pm<br />
hughsroomlive.com<br />
& Soul: 100 Years of Nat King Cole. Apr <strong>24</strong> Tim<br />
Booth’s Toronto Art Orchestra. Apr 25 A Tribute<br />
to Chess Records. Apr 26 David Newland CD<br />
Release. Apr 27 Còig. Apr 28 Cootes Paradise.<br />
Apr 29 The Simon and Garfunkel Story.<br />
Jazz Bistro, The<br />
251 Victoria St. 416-363-5299<br />
jazzbistro.ca (full schedule)<br />
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