Frequent Four on the Floor correspondent Tim Mah returns once again today, this time offering his extensive mid-year list of music released by Canadian jazz artists, so far in 2021.
As you will see below there's already lots of great jazz music that has come out of Canada since December of last year.
Tim's weekly radio program Jazz Today can be heard on CJSW Radio 90.9 fm (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) on Thursday mornings from 530-7am MST. It is also streamed on the CJSW website and available through Apple Podcasts.
New Music From Canadians in 2021 by Tim Mah
As we head into summer, you may be interested in spending some of your time listening to new music. There are many albums released every week. It can be overwhelming and challenging to sort through it all. Below is a list of thirty albums, released from December 2020 to May 2021, and led (or co-led) by Canadians.
This list is in alphabetical order and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all of the new releases from Canadians over this time frame. Rather, it is a starting point for readers to learn more about what is happening in the Canadian music scene.
Amanda Tosoff “Earth Voices”
Andres Vial “When is Ancient?”
Anna Webber “Idiom"
BLOOP (Lina Allemano & Mike Smith) “Proof”
BPM Trio (Phil Dwyer, Ben Dwyer & Mark Adam) “Audi Alteram Partem (Live)”
Carl Mayotte “Pop de Ville, Vol. 1"
CODE Quartet (Christine Jensen, Lex French, Adrian Vedady & Jim Doxas) “Genealogy”
Dan McCarthy (with Thomas Morgan & Rudy Royston) “A Place Where We Once Lived”
Dan Pitt Quintet “Wrongs”
David Restivo Trio “Arancina”
Emily Steinwall “Welcome to the Garden”
Erin Propp & Larry Roy “We Want All The Same Things”
Evan Arntzen “Countermelody”
Francois Bourassa “L’impact du silence”
James Danderfer & Quincy Davis “All The Flowers” (feat. Oliver Gannon, Brad Turner & Karl Kohut)
Jesse Ryan “Bridges"
Jessica Ackerley “Morning / mourning”
Jester Champwick (Curtis Nowosad & Joel Visentin) “Homework”
Kevin Dean “Going Down Slow”
L’abime (Hugo Blouin, Alex Dodier, Gabriel Genest, Jean-Philippe Godbout & Jonathan Turgeon) “L’abime”
Lara Solnicki “The One and the Other”
Lina Allemano Four “Vegetables” (feat. Brodie West, Andrew Downing & Nick Fraser)
Lorne Lofsky “This Song is New”
Mark Eisenman “Jazz Classics” (feat. Steve Wallace & John Sumner)
Mireille Boily “Refuges Mouvants”
Misc. (Jerome Beaulieu, Simon Page & William Cote) “Partager l’ambulance"
Sam Wilson “Into a Heart, Part Two”
Sarah Jerrom “Dream Logic” (feat. Harley Card, Rob McBride & Jeff Luciani)
See Through 4 (Pete Johnston, Lina Allemano, Michael Davidson & Jake Oelrichs) “Permanent Moving Parts”
TuneTown (Kelly Jefferson, Artie Roth & Ernesto Cervini) “Entering Utopia”
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Below are some videos from a selection of the above artists:
Amanda Tosoff “Sonnet 49 (featuring Robin Dann)” (music: Luciana Souza; words: Pablo Neruda)
CODE Quartet “Watching It All Slip Away” (written by Adrian Vedady)
The full album of Emily Steinwall’s “Welcome to the Garden” (written by Emily Steinwall)
Evan Arntzen “Muskrat Ramble (feat. Catherine Russell)” (written by Kid Ory)
Jesse Ryan’s online release of the album “Bridges” (written by Jesse Ryan)
Lina Allemano Four “Brussel Sprouts, Maybe Cabbage (Alternate Take)” (written by Lina Allemano)
Sam Wilson “Southern Limbo” (written by Samantha Wilson)
TuneTown “Billyish” (music written by Ernesto Cervini)
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