Darcy James Argue has notched JUNO (and Grammy) nominations for the two albums he has recorded with innovative big band Secret Society, but...

Sandwiched between the end of Luminato and NXNE already in full swing, the Toronto Jazz Festival is just one of many events competing for th...

Call it truth in advertising. After he and his five-piece band warmed up the crowd with a laidback bluesy tune, Boz Scaggs warned them "We'r...

A less than capacity crowd was on hand for this nicely complementary double bill. Sharon Jones was to be the headliner, but soul veteran LaV...

When English saxophonist/composer Courtney Pine burst onto the scene in the mid-'80s, he played relatively orthodox jazz. He has gone on to...

The choice of Willie Nelson as opening act of the Toronto Jazz Festival drew raised eyebrows (and a facile Toronto Star feature), but it can...

Saxophonist/composer Phil Dwyer won a Juno this year for his adventurous Changing Seasons album. His current cross-Canada festival tour, how...

Few veteran artists have had as versatile a career as George Benson. His ten Grammy wins have been for both vocal and instrumental performan...

Robert Glasper's music is ostensibly jazz, except when it's not. In incorporating elements of hip-hop, soul and R&B, the sound that is th...

Working with just a four-piece band, legendary soul singer Bettye LaVette proved less can be more at her Toronto Jazz Fest set, commandeerin...