This is a program originally aired on Trent Radio and placed on my podcast site in November, 2017.

Inspired by a jazz instruction blog & podcast , LearnJazzStandards.com, hosted by guitarist Brent Vaarstra, and his post called “92 Modern Jazz Albums You Need to Listen To”. ‘Modern’ was defined as being anything after the year 2000. 

I went through the first few, and also found (elsewhere) a couple Canadian jazz albums……and decided to play a track from a few of them.  Vaarstra recommended albums are by Anna Maria Jopek & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tarek Yamani, Larry Goldings and Peter Bernstein, Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard, Bruce Forman, David Kikoski w. Christian McBride, John Abercrombie, and Eldar Djangirov. 

Paul Novotny and Robi Botos, and trumpeter/singer Bria Skonberg are the two Canadian artists I discovered.