MONTREAL:
L'Astral:
Le Cagibi:
Casa del Popolo:
Casa Obscura:
Diese Onze: .
L’Envers: Craig Pedersen Quartet March 2.
La Sala Rossa: The Whammies January 24.
Upstairs: Lorraine Desmarais December 22. Mike Rud Trio December 26.
Dawn Tyler Watson December 31.
N.Y.C.
Clemente Soto Velez: Avant-garde jazz every Monday.
Cornelia Street Café: Mostly Other People Do the Killing February 28.
Downtown Music Gallery: In-store concerts Sunday @ 6:00pm. December 23, January 6 etc.
Jazz Standard:
Iridium:
Le Poisson Rouge:
Roulette:
Smalls:
St. Peter's Church: Pete La Roca Sims Tribute Concert December 28.
David S. Ware Memorial January 7.
The Stone:
Tribeca: Vince Giordano & Jonathan Batiste January 3. Barbara Carroll, Ken Peplowski etc February 14, Swing Memories March 14, Ron Carter, Anat Cohen etc May 9.
TORONTO:
Arraymusic: Toronto Improvisors Orchestra on last Friday of each month.
Chelsea Hotel: Blues Summit January 18 to 21.
Gallery 345:
Koerner Hall: Maple Blues Awards January 21.
Music Gallery:
Old Mill Inn: Brigham Phillips December 20. Hazel Walker December 21.
Mark Eisenman December 22
Quotes:
Rex:
Somewhere There: Craig Pedersen February 28.
Tranzac: Monk’s Music on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of each month.
Lina Allemano on 2nd Sunday of each month.
Bill Coleman, 1904-1981
About Me
- Ron Sweetman
- Ron Sweetman has been an activist for jazz and blues since arriving in Canada in 1969. He was a founder member of L’Atelier de Musique Experimentale (1972), Jazz Ottawa (1976), and Music Now (1997). He has written for CODA magazine since 1970, and has been a member of the Down Beat International Critics Poll since 1982. He has hosted his weekly jazz and blues radio show “In A Mellow Tone” on CKCU-FM 93.1 since May 1976. In his spare time, Ron is a management consultant.
