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The music of Ornette Coleman continues to be a kind of Mt. Everest for saxophonists, and New York’s Ohad Talmor climbs the mountain on his new “Back To The Land”. Backed by an excellent band, his new album tackles Talmor’s arrangements of unreleased music from a rehearsal recording in the Continue Reading

Putting together these new shows each week is generally fun, but with the steady stream of worthy new releases it would be just as easy to become a little perplexed at all the riches: how can I possibly play them all????? This week’s a good example – there’s so much Continue Reading

The late trumpeter Tomasz Stanko was extremely popular, not only with music fans but fellow musicians as well. Canadian saxophonist Francois Carrier was so entranced by one of Stanko’s recordings that he made a point of having the great artist from Poland play at one of his series in Montreal. Continue Reading