release date:10.10.2025 on Elastic Recordings
Toronto tenor saxophonist and composer Harrison Argatoff is still a fairly new addition to the city’s jazz and improvised music ecosystem, and yet he has managed to ascend rapidly within its ranks, garnering admiration and collaboration from a number of his elder peers. One could easily attribute this to the imaginative array of projects he has hatched since graduating from the University of Toronto’s Jazz program seven years ago.
Release date: 08.11.2024 on Elastic Recordings
Bassist and composer Dan Fortin‘s varied musical output is a vivid illustration of the extent to which restlessness can drive creativity. Te Hamilton, Ontario resident maintains an omnivorous musical diet in a vast assortment of projects across numerous styles. Here , accompanied by guitarist David Occhipinti, he comes out with his third recording, entitled Cannon, the second on the Elastic Recordings label. Out on the 8th of November .
Acclaimed out-jazz drummer Nick Fraser teams up with composer/ keyboard virtuoso John Kameel Farah for “Farahser” out May 17th, 2024
” World-renowned composer-pianist John Kameel Farah is versed in classical, minimalist, jazz, electronic and Arabic music, and performs with piano, synthesizer, computer and, at times, harpsichord and organ. His latest album, Time Sketches, blends these elements with symphonic vision and fluidity.” — Peter Ellman, Exclaim!
” The Toronto drummer is perhaps a little too progressive for the hidebound Canadian scene. A deft and sensitive percussionist with a hint of an enigmatic streak, a feeling for economical gestures and an innate sense of form.” — Mark Miller, The Globe and Mail
The virtuosic violinist Aline Homzy – hailed by Jean-Luc Ponty as “sensitive and musical…original” – introduces us to her dazzling musical world on her debut album Éclipse with her group Aline’s étoile magique, out today August 25, 2023 via Elastic Recordings.
The album features Homzy with vibraphonist Michael Davidson (Joe Chambers), guitarist Thom Gill (Knower), Dan Fortin (Bernice) on bass, and Marito Marques (Ivan Lins) on drums, with special guests João Frade on accordion and vocalist Felicity Williams. The 11-track recording was ten years in the making and is a debut that showcases Homzy’s brilliant musicianship and compositional point of view with impressive clarity and maturity.
“Homzy makes music that doesn’t push the boundaries of jazz as much as it blithely and cheerfully ignores them. Her compositions unfold with something like dream logic – they’re genuinely weird but always feel like they make sense while you’re listening…. This is an utterly unique album, and a great one.” – Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist.
“Aline Homzy’s virtuosic violin is dazzling… unique and completely entertaining… Her composition is bold and melodic; forceful and power driven.” – Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs.
“A spectacular debut.” – Jazz Quad
