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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
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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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  • Dana Murray interview
  • Chris "Daddy" Dave Interview
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      Festival Coverage
  • 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
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