shows:

• February 8, 2012
  • Eric Hamelin/Jason Sharpe duo
  • Chris Reimer
  • Aaron Leaney
  • more info TBA
  • WEEDS CAFE (1903 20th AVE NW), 8-10pm, PAY WHAT YOU CAN
• February 28, 2012
  • Tania Gill Group
  • support TBA
  • Cantos Music Foundation - 134 11 Ave SW
  • Tania Gill, piano and melodica
    Lina Allemano, trumpet
    Clinton Ryder, double bass
    Jean Martin, drums
    
    Acclaimed composer and pianist Tania Gill, originally from Victoria, BC, is a key figure in the Toronto scenes of jazz and popular music.  She has twenty years’ experience working with diverse world-class artists, including Deep Dark United, Charles Spearin’s The Happiness Project, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Anthony Braxton.  
     
    Her long-awaited 2010 debut recording, Bolger Station (Barnyard Records) was ‘disc of the week’ and a top-ten disc for 2010 according to The Globe and Mail, and was nominated for debut album of the year in The Village Voice critics’ poll.  It is one of the truly excellent Canadian jazz recordings of recent years.
     
    Tania will be touring with her Bolger Station Quartet, featuring three of Canada’s outstanding jazz musicians, each with a distinguished career recording and touring with numerous projects.  They will play music from Bolger Station that features free-spirited improvisation and compositions that are by turns playful, contemplative, fiery and serene.  The Tania Gill Quartet is a consummate contemporary jazz group that plays with intelligence, passion and grace.
    
    “Bolger Station makes itself a destination for many travellers, journeying alone or in groups.”
    –Robert Everett-Green, The Globe and Mail
    
    “If you met Tania Gill's Bolger Station at a party, you'd quickly decide to hang out with it for the rest of the evening. It's different, after all. A little eccentric, unpredictable. In the best way.”
    ––Kevin Wilson, CKUA
     
    “Pianist and composer Tania Gill understands the understated power of lyricism... There's evidence of Gill having drunk deeply at the double well of the Bleys (composer Carla and pianist Paul): in motifs, harmonic concepts, pianism and pauses.”  –Glen Hall, Exclaim! Magazine

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• Pascal Nichols & Simon Rose: Sombrero Galaxy
• repress of Chris Dadge: A Moth That Smiles As It Burns Is Better Than You
• Andre Bourgeois/Chris Dadge live recording
• Chris Dadge: Near and Distant Skies (live in Moncton)
• Eric Hamelin solo album
• Bug Incision Tapes (the Gamecock, more)