I’ve never been shy in saying I think Guns N’ Roses is one of the greatest rock bands ever. Sure, in their heyday they self-destructed in a haze of drug addiction and Axl’s mood swings. But in those brief few years – nobody should doubt Gn’R created some of the finest rock songs ever. I’d [...]
(September 12, 2011) Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam finish up a few days in Toronto that included a Film Festival premiere of their new Cameron Crowe directed documentary PJ20, a press conference discussing the film, and two sold-out concerts at the Air Canada Centre.
A special week in late June when two of the most distinctive voices in soul history made separate, but equally important appearances in Toronto. Ms. Aretha Franklin and Sade made rare concert stops in the city. Online music news site Manifesto.ca asked to use photos I shot at the shows. Was thrilled to see my [...]
Funk was in the house on Saturday night at the Toronto Jazz Festival. The bass legend that is Bootsy Collins made a long awaited concert stop in the city. Bootsy rose to prominence with James Brown in the sixties, and then Parliament-Funkadelic in the seventies. Bootsy’s work is credited with being a driving influential force [...]
I do love my British soul ladies. Nobody’s hotter than Adele right now, and Joss Stone is a very young veteran singing today. But the biggest selling Brit-Soul singer of them all (100 million records sold and counting) – is Sade Adu and she made a rare stop in Toronto this week at Air Canada [...]
After an amazing opening night Aretha Franklin gave The Toronto Jazz Festival on Friday, I returned Sunday to the main stage tent for The Spanish Harlem Orchestra – a Grammy award winning latin dance music band that I figured would be a fun show under the main stage tent (and it was.) I was quickly [...]
(June 24, 2011) The Toronto Jazz Festival kicked off it’s 25th anniversary edition with the legendary Aretha Franklin.