Update: If you missed my segment live on Jazz.FM, you can hear the entire program here.
I’m so grateful to Jazz.FM91 for their incredible support. I recently recorded a show called Session Notes with Glenn Cross which will be aired this coming Sunday, Feb 2 at 9 AM. You can listen live here.
I will be speaking with Glenn about all of my recordings going back to “Moments Like These” featuring a duet with Don Thompson on vibes to my Juno nominated “Two Kites” to “Like a Circle in a Spiral” as well as my latest release, “Tryptique”.
Huge thank you to Brad Barker and Jazz.FM91 for featuring our new release on their website. Colleen Allen and I loved speaking with Brad.
For friends in the Waterloo area, Tryptique will be performing at the wonderful Jazz Room. I always love to play at this fantastic club. It is truly one of the finest places to play anywhere!
It’s official. Tryptique was launched to a full house at the Jazz Bistro and has been garnering fantastic reviews and plays around the world! Check out the Tryptique page for reviews and quotes.
I can’t tell you how thrilled Colleen Allen (flute, saxophones), George Koller (bass) and I are to be releasing our first CD as a trio- Tryptique. You can read about us over here with links to our EPK where we talk about the band, plus links to hear/purchase/download.
We’ll be celebrating at the Jazz Bistro on Thursday, November 14 and would love you join the party. Please book early to get a good seat!
The triptych on the cover was painted by my later mother, Canadian artist Rose Lindzon. It is titled “Mythology”.
design by Yesim Tosuner, photo by Bo Huang.
Colleen Allen (flute/sax), George Koller (bass) and I have been busy recording our first CD as a trio! We have amassed a huge repertoire of music with influences from Baroque to World music, standards, originals and music by Canadian composers. We are a chamber ensemble with a diverse musical landscape and can’t wait to share our musical conversations with you. Please join us this Thursday, Sept 19 and Friday, September 20 at Hirut Cafe 2050 Danforth Avenue.
Introducing Tryptique. My new jazz trio with Colleen Allen (saxes, flute) and George Koller (bass). This instrumental chamber/jazz trio features music by many Canadian composers, music inspired by Classical and World music, quirky, original and deeply communicative. We’re in the process of recording our first CD both in the studio and live at the Jazz Bistro and we’d love you to be part of our video recording on Tuesday, May 14.
I’ll be entering January in full swing with my wonderful bandmates Colleen Allen and George Koller. We have a wealth of new material we’re gearing up to record and I can’t wait to show you what I’ve been up to on January 11 and 12 at Hirut Cafe. Hirut is one of the most talked about venues for jazz in Toronto and I am really looking forward to playing their recently acquired acoustic piano.
And then on January 14, I’ll be performing with Lenka Lichtenberg’s “Thieves of Dreams” at Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @ York. This project features poetry Lenka’s grandmother wrote while incarcerated at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Lenka commissioned an eclectic group of female composers to write the music and the album won the 2023 World Music Juno Award. I’m very excited that we’ll be debuting the song I wrote entitled “The Art of a Goodbye”. It’s a free concert, but a reservation is recommended.
edit: Please note that the “Thieves of Dreams” concert scheduled for Thursday, October 19 has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for a later date.
I really do love this time of the year. The fall colours bring along new beginnings and a freshness in the air. I’m particularly excited about about 2 upcoming concerts. One is a full-scale production of Lenka Lichtenberg’s “Thieves of Dreams” presented by “Sound and Sense: Jewish Music @York University”. Admission is free but tickets are recommended. Lenka’s project is based on newly discovered poetry her grandmother wrote while incarcerated at the Terezin Concentration Camp. I’m particularly excited that we’ll be debuting my contribution to the project, a composition I wrote to one of the gorgeous poems: The Art of a Goodbye: a vocal duet with Lenka.
I’m also very excited to play with “Triple Sax” presented by West End Jazz. I’ll be playing with 4 wonderful horn players: Colleen Allen, Elena Kapeleris and Carrie Chesnutt (saxophones), Rebecca Hennessy (trumpet), Ethan Ardelli (drums) and Peter Telford (bass). Tickets can be purchased here.
I’ve been making music with George Koller for much of my jazz career, and we are involved in a ton of musical projects. It’s always a special treat to be in a duo format where either one of us can take a detour, we can surprise each other and still find our way….somewhere….
We’ll be performing at the Jester’s Court in Port Perry on Thursday, September 14 at 1:30PM. Perhaps we’ll even see the beginnings of fall. Come and join us.
and so it goes. Lots of time to reflect and write and practice and experiment followed by a full weekend of completely different gigs. On Saturday I’ll be playing standards (standards!!) with Bobby Brough (I mean…), Jim Gelcer and Victor Bateman. Beautiful interesting repertoire, much of which I haven’t played in years. It’s a fascinating marker for me to rediscover these gems and to see my own growth. We’ll be at The Pilot from 3-6 on Aug 26.
And the following day, I’ll be joining the wonderful multi-instrumentalist David Woodhead for his “Precious Little” series at the Tranzac from 5-7. We’ll be playing original material written by David and myself, some of which I’ll only have a day or two to look at. David’s music his quirky, challenging, fun and really amazing.
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