I have been writing about music – principally, jazz – since 2001. My music writing includes album reviews, festival coverage, artist profiles, concert reviews and articles, which have been published in JazzTimes, DownBeat, VICE/Noisey, OkayPlayer, Afropop Worldwide and The Revivalist.
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• RAM Feature
• Vox Sambou Feature: Hip Hop Meets Social Activism
• Malika Tirolien Feature
• The Montreal International Jazz Festival 2016
• Festival International Nuits d’Afrique 2016
• ILAM Feature
• Leonard Cohen Passing & Tribute Concert
• Cameron Graves: LA's Cosmic Metalhead Jazz Prince
• Christian Sands Reaches For The Past With "Gangstalude"
• Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song

News Articles

• Blue Note Records Leonard Cohen Tribute
• Jean-Michel Pilc Celebrates Improv Freedom in Montreal
• New York Jazz Community Bids Farewell to Shimrit Shoshan
• Slide Hampton at McGill
• Upstairs Jazz Club Celebrates its 20th Anniversary
• Billy Hart Makes Magic in Montreal
• Dièse Onze

Artist Profiles

• Players: Gary Schwartz
• Players: Christine Jensen
• Rich Brown Profile
• Chet Doxas Profile

Exhibition Review

• We Want Miles: Miles Davis Exhibition in Montreal

Book / Film Reviews

• The New Face of Jazz & Icons Among Us
• I Am The Blues documentary film — America’s Last Generation of Blues Legends 

Festival Coverage

• Montreal’s Inaugural Saint-Henri Jazz Society Festival 
• The Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival, 2016 - Part I, Part II
• Festi Jazz International de Rimouski, 2016
• Cabo Verde's Kriol Jazz Festival, 2017

Concert Reviews

• Montreal Musicians Heat Up the Winter Season
• Jazz en Rafale: Bass, Bass, Bass!
• FELA!
• Lady Sings the Blues

Album Reviews

• Ranee Lee, Ranee Lee Lives Upstairs

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• The Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival, 10th Edition, 2016

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Concert Reviews

• Lee Fields Ablaze in Montreal
• Sly Johnson: From Human Beat Box to Soul Sensation

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• Meshell Ndegeocello Interview
  
• Dana Murray interview
• Chris "Daddy" Dave Interview

      Festival Coverage

• The Panama Jazz Festival 2023
• The Red Sea Jazz Festival 2022
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2022
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2021
• The Port-au-Prince Jazz Festival, 2020
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2019
• Digital Photo Bonus: The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2018
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2018
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2017
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2016
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2015 - Part I & Part II
• The Montreal Jazz Festival - 35th Edition, 2014
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2013
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2012
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2011 (Part 1; Part 2)
• The Montreal Jazz Festival, 2010​

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   Features / Concert Reviews 

• Sefi Zisling Steps to the Fore
• Rafael Zaldivar Trio Live at L’Astral, Montreal
• The Jazz Series at Montréal en Lumière 
• The Montreal Jazz Festival: Jazz All Year Round
• D'Angelo Rocks Montreal
• International Jazz Day in Montreal, 2016

Album Reviews

• Anat Fort Trio, And If
• Andy Statman, Old Brooklyn
• Anne Drummond, Like Water
• Ari Hoenig, Punk Bop
• Avishai Cohen, Introducing Triveni
• Ben Allison, Action-Refraction
• Billy Martin's Wicked Knee, Heels Over Head
• Chris Minh Doky, Scenes from a Dream
• Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra, Treelines
• David Weiss, When Words Fail
• Dred Scott Trio, Going Nowhere
• Eli Degibri, Twelve
• Elio Villafranca/Arturo Stable, Dos y Mas
• Etienne Charles, Kaiso
• Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari, Tree of Life
• Gerald Clayton, Two-Shade
• Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Fé
• Harold López-Nussa Trio, El País de las Maravillas
• Houston Person, Naturally
• Jacky Terrasson, Push

• Johnathan Blake, Gone, But Not Forgotten
• Jaimeo Brown, Transcendence
• Jean-Michel Pilc, Essential
• Myron Walden, To Feel  & What We Share
• Omer Avital Quintet, Live at Smalls
• Petros Klampanis, Minor Dispute
• Roberto Fonseca, Akokan
• Roni Ben-Hur, Fortuna
• Sameer Gupta, Namaskar
• Shauli Einav, Opus One
• Stanton Moore, Conversations
• Ted Rosenthal Trio, Out of This World
• Tigran Hamasyan, A Fable
• Tigran, Shadow Theater
• Tom Guarna, Rush
• Trilok Gurtu wtih Simon Phillips, 21 Spices
• Walter Smith III, Still Casual
• Yosvany Terry, New Throned King
• Yotam, Resonance

   

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Effendi Showcases Fall Crop

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Album Review

• Omar Sosa & the NDR Bigband, Ceremony

Festival Coverage

• NYC Winter Jazz Fest, 2010