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This debut release from his agile top-tier trio with the double ... Sovereign Bodies/Ritual Taxonomy. That album forms the basis for this 2023 London Jazz Festival recording, which sees the ...

experimented within and outside jazz. Best of all, some of the more avant-garde musicians seemed to find value in sculpting their music like a potter with clay, trimming away the excess, shaping a ...

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The year’s best Canadian jazz albums are, as usual, a varied bunch, with a big band’s roar, adventurous pianism and a swinging but intimate duo vying for the attention of music-lovers.