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Still Waters Reviews
Chemistry is the key to performance by a duo – particularly if the instruments are flugelhorn and piano. If you walked in on a gig by horn man Kenny Wheeler and pianist Brian Dickinson, you might...
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Soul Mission Reviews
THE BRIAN DICKINSON QUINTET Soul Mission Elan Jazz EJ1001 Not to my surprise, last week I received a cd from Ontario. It is an album entitled: “Soul Mission”. What is extraordinary, is that it is the...
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Concert Review: Lee Konitz with The Brian Dickinson Trio, Feb 11, Glenn Gould...
Toronto – I’m generally not one for making New Year’s resolutions, but this year, inspired after reading Alex Ross’ Listen to This, I decided that I would take it upon myself to expand my musical...
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Brian Dickinson and Ted Quinlan: “Around the Bend”
We are going to start our reviews off with Brian Dickinson and Ted Quinlan’s “Around the Bend”. Released by Addo Records in the fall of 2010, once you put this album in your car, its never coming out....
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Dickinson hopes to celebrate his “mid-life crisis” record with a Juno
Brian Dickinson was about 12-years-old, working as an usher at the Stratford Theatre Festival, when he first saw Oscar Peterson play the piano. Although Dickinson was born in Guelph, his family moved...
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Top Canadian Jazz CDs: 1. Darren Sigesmund, Strands III (self-released) 2. Marianne Trudel, La vie commence ici (Justin Time) 3. Mike Murley / Reg Schwager / Steve Wallace, Looking Back (Cornerstone)...
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Brian Dickinson Trio CD Reviewed
Toronto pianist Brian Dickinson let more than two decades go by between the release of his two trio albums. In 1993, he put out the standards-heavy Live At The Senator. And while there have been duo,...
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