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Album Review

Sam Kirmayer: In This Moment

Read "In This Moment" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Montreal-based guitarist Sam Kirmayer leads a well-modulated sextet on In This Moment, wherein all ten of the album's numbers were written by Kirmayer. That is both a strength and a weakness. On one hand, Kirmayer's themes are, for the most part, light, sunny and squarely in the jazz tradition; on the other, none of them is likely to enter the standard canon. They are more pleasant than memorable, which evidently suits his purpose. The ensemble, however, gives ...

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Mike Rud: Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein

Read "Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Calling guitarist Mike Rud one of the best kept secrets on his instrument is only a bit off the mark. Rud's Notes on Montreal (Self Produced) took home a Juno Award, after all, so his presence has most certainly been felt in his native Canada. Yet his work and name haven't traveled like they should, making a bigger mark below and beyond his homeland. Whether painting with thematic tones as a leader, serving as a sideman with pianist Peter Hum, ...

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Peter Hum: Ordinary Heroes

Read "Ordinary Heroes" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Canadian jazz pianist Peter Hum has been a fixture and mainstay on the Ottawa jazz scene for three decades. A journalist by profession, covering education, crime and city hall for the Ottawa Citizen, a social conscious and music, have always been driving forces in his life. His third album as leader, Ordinary Heroes contains ten original compositions all inspired by his social and political concerns in today's society and, as such, is dedicated to those to whom we all owe ...

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Peter Hum: Ordinary Heroes

Read "Ordinary Heroes" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The ideals of promise and hope, and the desire to create a better world and drive out the darkness, need not be fueled or forwarded by the extraordinary. As George Takei, the legendary actor-cum-activist once noted in referencing the individuals who provided succor during the horrors of the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, it's often the “ordinary heroes" who light the way. Taking inspiration from Takei's words, pianist Peter Hum uses his third album as ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

In This Moment

Cellar Live
2022

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Ordinary Heroes

Self Produced
2020

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Salome's Dance: The...

Bent River Records
2020

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Salome's Dance

From: Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud...
By Alec Walkington

Spare Hearts

From: Ordinary Heroes
By Alec Walkington

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