February is Black History Month and shows this month will feature music from Christian McBride’s “The Movement Revisited – A Musical Portrait Of Four Icons”. Those icons of the civil rights movement are Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. There’ll be other material along Continue Reading
January 30, 2020 #1137
There’s definitely a European slant to this episode as a number of interesting recordings popped onto the OMJ radar. Bassist Jasper Hoiby, leader of the popular English trio Phronesis, has a new album of his own coming soon, so there’s a taste of that, as well as one from another Continue Reading
January 23, 2020 #1136
This week’s show features a pair of new albums from two Toronto avant garde stalwarts: bassist Rob Clutton with saxophonist Tony Malabyand drummer Mark Segger’s sextet (with Rob Clutton). The Toronto experimental scene is an active one, and both Clutton and Segger (now studying in Edmonton) are key musicians. Another Continue Reading