October 14, 2025

Episode 336: Favourites from the Past Summer

59 minutes

Yes, we're into Autumn. And as much as I love the Fall season, it's hard to let summer go. So I'm playing some favourite recordings that I've been playing over the summer---most of them new cd's and many of them by Canadian jazz artists.

I start with an album by Joaquin Nunez and Habana Safari, featuring Joanna Majoko.

A brand new discovery and his first album. Originally from Finland, his name is Saku Manterre. He is a professor of strategy and organization---and a philosopher with so many publications, as well as a singer and songwriter. The album's called Divine Apology.

A big band arrangement of a John Coltrane tune by New Orleans orchestrator David Bode.

A brand new release by a soul ensemble from Vancouver who go by the name of Motivation.

Ernesto Cervini--the man who send me many of the cd's played in this and next week's episode, thanks to Orange Grove Publicity. From Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop album, "A Canadian Songbook", I play a William Carn composition with Carn on trombone.

I went to the Edmonton Folk Festival this summer and reviewed it for Roots Music Canada. I discovered the most amazing singer-- Danielle Ponder. This is her version (with added lyrics) of Radiohead's "Creep". Like good jazz, she takes something familiar and makes it new.

Another one from Allen Lowe & The Constant Sorrow Orchestra's "Louis Armstrong's America". This one's a salute to Bud Powell.

Did you know that novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (he wrote The Remains of The Day) is also a lyricist, thanks to his connection with singer Stacey Kent?

David Occhipinti's new chamber jazz album and a track inspired by Homer's "The Odyssey".

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