Peter Evans is a composer, trumpet player, improvisor and bandleader based in New York City since 2003.  Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation, and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. Evans is committed to the simultaneously self-determining and collaborative nature of musical improvisation […]

Unclassified Affections is the entrancing new release from drummer and composer Dan Weiss that features the convergence of some of the most intriguing musicians on the scene: Peter Evans on trumpet, Patricia Brennan on vibraphone, and Miles Okazaki on guitar. The new compositions, which were written by Weiss specifically for these musicians, range from deep, […]

Violinist, Joshua Zubot, grew up in Saskatchewan and now calls Montreal his home. Joshua performs in many musicalscenes and groups that range in styles from improvisation, folk, jazz, newmusic to classical. He performs in Canada, United States and Europe with groupssuch as Subtle Lip Can, Quartetski, Ratchet Orchestra, Patrick Watson, Land ofMarigold and much more.  […]

Cellist, improviser, composer Peggy Lee was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. She studied classical cello, completing a bachelors degree in performance at the University of Toronto as a student of Vladimir Orloff and Denis Brott. She furthered her studies on the cello with lessons with Martha Gerschefski in Atlanta Georgia. In the fall of […]

The music of guitarist and composer Aram Bajakian music has been called “a masterpiece” (fRoots), “shape-shifting” (FreeJazzCollective), and “sometimes delicate, sometimes punishing” (Chicago Reader). As a guitarist, “the virtuosic jack of all trades” (Village Voice) has toured extensively with Lou Reed, Madeleine Peyroux, Frank London, John Zorn and Diana Krall. From 2018-2021, Bajakian served as […]

Dálava, the genre-defying ensemble led by vocalist Julia Úlehla with guitarist Aram Bajakian (Lou Reed, John Zorn, Diana Krall), returns with Understories, a deeply evocative new album that explores uncharted territories of sound. Seamlessly weaving Moravian folk traditions with an experimental, improvisational approach, Understories takes the listener on a journey through captivating sonic worlds. Dálava’s […]

Described as an “incandescent” (Musicworks), “captivating Moravian magician” (Downbeat), Julia Úlehla is an interarts performer, composer, scholar, and cultural worker whose critical and creative practices engage ancestry, traditional culture, and radical forms of experimentation. Her practice is rooted first and foremost in the embodied voice—as a powerful nexus of the material, spiritual, ethno-cultural, and socio-political. […]

In a career that spans two decades and encompasses a broad array of musical ventures, saxophonist Mark Turner has emerged as a towering presence in the jazz community. With a distinctive, personal tone, singular improvisational skills and an innovative, challenging compositional approach, he’s earned a far-reaching reputation as one of jazz’s most original and influential […]

Steve Lehman – who The New York Times has hailed as a “virtuoso alto saxophonist” and a “state-of-the-art musical thinker” – returns with a highly-anticipated new release with his long-running trio featuring bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Damion Reid, this time joined by special guest tenor saxophonist Mark Turner. On the self-evidently entitled The Music […]