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Jazz bounty in Toronto this fall

Cathy Riches' photo
Toronto Jazz Music Examiner

OK I know it's not technically fall yet, but the temperature sure feels like it. And with the big music festivals pretty much over, now's the time to move indoors and get cozy with a really good band.

Here are a few of the best of the many fine shows in Toronto in the coming week:

John Stetch Trio
September 17 - start time 7:00 p.m.

Currently on tour from New York, Stetch has been called “one of the most brilliant and underrated jazz pianists working today. "In a perfect world he would be more famous than Wynton Marsalis” - Alain Druot, Clavier.

The trio also includes New York resident players Joe Martin (bass) and Greg Ritchie (drums).

The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar
194 Queen Street West
Toronto
therex.ca


Syncopation: Life in the Key of Black
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September 18 - 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
 
A fundraiser for the Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund, the gala event will feature the premiere of an original Jazz suite performed by Archie Alleyne's Evolution of Jazz Ensemble and influenced by the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the Cotton Club of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance era.
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Al Green Theatre in the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre
750 Spadina Ave.
Toronto
 
Ted Quinlan Trio
September 18 - start time 9:30 p.m.
Ted Quinlan - guitar
Kieran Overs - bass
Barry Romberg - drums
 

The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar
194 Queen Street West
Toronto
therex.ca
 

Celebrating the Music of John Coltrane
September 22,23,24 - start time 9:30 p.m.
 

Pat LaBarbera, Kirk MacDonald: saxophones
Brian Dickinson: piano
Neil Swainson: bass
Bob McLaren: drums

The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar
194 Queen Street West
Toronto
therex.ca

John Stetch Trio plays The Rex in Toronto tonight
John Stetch Trio plays The Rex in Toronto tonight
Photo credit: 
John Stetch
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, Toronto Jazz Music Examiner

Cathy Riches has been writing about music - mostly jazz, world, and vocal - for over 10 years for publications such as The WholeNote, the Women's Post, JazzFM (blog) and the Toronto Downtown Jazz Newsletter. She studied music at college and had a brief career as a performer and now only...

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