The Live Music Report
July 2005 |
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| Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival |
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| Workshops and Talkback |
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This was the first year the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival organized workshops and discussions to give festival-goers an insight into the music...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Jason Wilson and Tabarruk |
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...On this beautiful, sunny Canada Day holiday, they open their show patriotically with a standard verse of “The Maple Leaf Forever”...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Autorickshaw |
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...This is a group of four young musicians who play with great depth and skill. I would term what they do Indo-jazz rather than world music...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Italian Instabile Orchestra |
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...the Italian Instabile Orchestra brings us into the 21st century via New Orleans and Mingus, Gil Evans and Beethoven...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Swamperella |
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...They’re a Cajun-zydeco-creole-band. Is it interesting? Yes. Is it fun? You bet...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Carlos Del Junco & Dr John |
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...blowing solo seeming scales that develop into short riffs that begin to sound like jazz...
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| by Stanley Fefferman & Roger Humbert |
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| Concerts |
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| Jon Ballantyne 4tet |
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...They played full bore — 'they' being the "Jon Ballantyne 4tet", (Canadian Ballantyne's NY quartet)...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Amjad Ali Khan |
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...Amjad Ali Khan and his two sons, Amaan and Aayan, are respectively sixth and seventh generations in the Bangash family of sarod masters...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Omara Portuondo |
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...Omara has been called the Cuban Edith Piaf. And like the famous street urchin turned national hero, her life story...
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| by Joyce Corbett |
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| 17th Annual Afrofest |
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| Afrofest – day 1 |
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...He is said to be a man who loves beauty and peace and he seems to exude some kind of beneficent elixir...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Afrofest – day 2 |
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...Certainly, the stresses of everyday life seem far away as the joyous crowd dances to his infectious rhythms...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Theatre |
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| The Taming of the Shrew |
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...In our modern times of “political correctness”, the play is still, after hundreds of years, a powder keg of controversy...
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| by Lesley Mitchell-Clarke |
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