The Live Music Report
January 2006 |
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| Brian Chahley |
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...spacey riffs, work up to longer runs, complex rhythms and tempos that made his fingers blur over the valves...
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| by Stanley Fefferman & Greg King |
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| Discoveries | Five New Voices |
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...Kristy Cardinali may have been the surprise of the evening. While she has written songs for others...
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| by Andy Frank |
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| Lynn Harrison |
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...Her writing magic is best witnessed when she freeze-frames a moment in time, picks it up in one of her delicate hands...
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| by Andy Frank & Arthur Uyeyama |
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| Danny Brooks and The Rockin' Revelators |
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...Danny is like the great bluesmen he admires. He is authentic, and he is telling the truth of his experience...
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| by Joyce Corbett & Roger Humbert |
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| Jake Langley |
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...The two voices, Jake’s fluent ripple and Rob’s measured tones, sang together...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Priya Thomas and the Blast of 7 |
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...ranting toward the lights, militarily marching across the platform with arms constantly in motion...
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| by Andy Frank & Roger Humbert |
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| Jupiter String Quartet | Tokyo String Quartet |
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...The fire and sweetness of youth is what the Jupiter String Quartet brought to their recital during a “Music in the Afternoon” concert...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Layah Jane |
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...Layah Jane’s voice just keeps getting richer and fuller every time I hear her sing. Her initial hums into the microphone hushed the room...
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| by Andy Frank |
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| Vandermark 5 |
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...The music is full of tussles and wrestling matches, it veers off into tangents and sometimes threatens to crash...
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| by Joyce Corbett |
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| Gregg Lawless | Duets etc. |
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...The common denominator throughout the show, of course, was Gregg Lawless, a brilliant songwriter whose original works these talented performers...
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| by Andy Frank & José Romelo Lagman |
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| David ‘Honeyboy’ Edwards |
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...and as Honeyboy starts to play, the sound is unmistakably Delta blues...
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| by Gloria Ellis |
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| Toronto International Chamber Music Festival |
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The opening fanfare at this festival in honour of Mozart’s 250th birthday was sounded by the gleaming Eastman Brass...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Theatre |
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| Bombay Black |
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...but this play is also a seamless blend of magic realism, bitter humour, myth, and in-your-face sexual imagery...
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| by David Fujino |
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| Grettir | An Icelandic Saga |
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...Despite the heaviness of the subject matter — revenge, wrongful imprisonment, marital deception — the music is buoyant...
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| by Stanley Fefferman |
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| Hamlet (Solo) |
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...Raoul Bhaneja played this whole play and its characters with exemplary craft and feeling. He kept it simple, and clear, and understated...
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| by David Fujino |
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