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Byline: J. D. CONSIDINE THE MONDAY Q&A / VERNON REID In 1963, when a 17-year old Tony Williams was hired to drum with the Miles Davis Quintet, he was not [...]

Byline: J. D. Considine and Elissa Poole POP Out of the Game Rufus Wainwright Universal ***½ Going from the mournful, understated art song approach of Wainwright's last album to the [...]

Byline: Dave Morris, J. D. Considine and Brad Wheeler FOLK ROCK A Wasteland Companion M. Ward Merge *** Everyone with a guitar, a plaid flannel shirt and a hankering to [...]

Byline: J. D. Considine and Brad WheelerPOP/JAZZKisses on the BottomPaul McCartneyUniversal***The strangest thing about this nod to swing-era nostalgia isn't that Sir Paul sounds so at home with the songs [...]

Byline: Elissa Poole, Brad Wheeler and J. D. Considine CLASSICAL Philip Glass & Michael Nyman: Works for Saxophone Quartet sonic.art Saxophone Quartet Genuin classics *** Playing Philip Glass's String Quartet [...]

Byline: J. D. Considine, Brad Wheeler and Elissa Poole POP Land & Sea Sarah Slean Pheromone/Universal **** Downloads may have reduced the number of CDs being pressed, but they haven't [...]

Byline: Brad Wheeler, Elissa Poole and J. D. Considine FOLK-ROCK Terra Lightfoot Terra Lightfoot Sonic Unyon *** With her thoughtful, rustic, indie folk material, Terra Lightfoot, no relation to Gordon, [...]

Byline: J. D. CONSIDINE POP Eyes for You (Ain't No Doubt About It) by Daryl Hall, from the album Laughing Down Crying (streaming at soundcloud.com) At 64, Hall's voice is [...]

Byline: J. D. CONSIDINE, ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN AND BRAD WHEELER MUSIC / FALL CONCERT PREVIEW POP/ROCK Roger Daltrey's Tommy Nine Canadian dates, beginning Tuesday at Place des Arts, Montreal For this [...]

Byline: J. D. CONSIDINE MUSIC Tony Bennett and Diana Krall aren't just two of the most popular singers in modern jazz, or even just two of the foremost exponents of [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE MUSIC Even though it would be another four hours before the doors would open, there was already a line of fans outside the Sound Academy in Toronto's [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE; Special to The Globe and Mail MUSIC / REVIEW The Black Keys At Kool Haus In Toronto on Tuesday Outside, it may have been cool and breezy, [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE EXHIBIT / WE WANT MILES AT THE MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE MONTRÉAL MONTREAL -- Miles Davis was not an easy man to know. A towering figure in [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE MUSIC LAKEFIELD, ONT. -- It's a bit before 9 o'clock on a sunny Thursday morning, and a bright, chipper Natalie MacMaster is in the chapel of Lakefield [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE DISC OF THE WEEK / POP Aphrodite Kylie Minogue Parlophone/EMI *** One of the oldest battles in the culture wars is about seriousness. Pop music is considered [...]

Byline: J. D. Considine and Elissa Poole POP Night Work Scissor Sisters Universal *** Like Alicia Bridges, the Scissor Sisters love the nightlife - particularly the mirror-balled wonderland of after-hour [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE Q&A / MARTHA WAINWRIGHT It's hardly a surprise that Martha Wainwright grew up listening to music. As the daughter of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III - [...]

Byline: Brad Wheeler and J.D. Considine POP Oooh La-La! Crash Test Dummies Deep Fried/Sony **½ Marshall McLuhan was a genius and Brad Roberts is one big Dummy, but the two [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE MUSIC / TRENDS Troy Andrews, who performs under the name Trombone Shorty, made his American major-label debut last week with an album called Backatown. If all goes [...]

Byline: Brad Wheeler and J. D. Considine ROCK Slash Slash Universal *** It's as if Slash told Axl Rose that he wasn't needed - that if the Velvet Revolver guitarist [...]

Byline: J. D. Considine and Brad Wheeler ROCK Out of Our Minds Melissa Auf der Maur Phi ***½ In some ways, the greatest irony of Auf der Maur's independently produced [...]

Byline: J. D. CONSIDINE DISC OF THE WEEK / POP All In Good Time Barenaked Ladies Raisin' Records/EMI *** Of this, you may be certain: Every breakup song or dis [...]

Byline: J. D. Considine POP One Life Stand Hot Chip EMI ** Time was when synthpop seemed the height of modernity, all cutting-edge synths and clock-perfect beats. But in the [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE MUSIC / ANTHONY BRAXTON Don't expect a standard concert experience from Anthony Braxton's Sonic Genome Project. For starters, the performance, taking place this Sunday as part of [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE; Special to The Globe and Mail ANALYSIS / THE STATE OF JAZZ Don't look now, but jazz is dead. Again. Or so goes the current refrain from [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE; Special To The Globe and Mail For generations of guitarists, there were two Les Pauls. One was the guitarist, the other was the guitar, and while the [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE MUSIC JAZZ Toronto Jazz Festival At various locations in Toronto on Friday, Saturday and Sunday It would be hard to imagine a better start for a jazz [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL / CRITIC'S PICKS Some festivals start off strong, packing lots of big names and exciting events into the first few days, then gradually [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE INTERVIEW: DIANA KRALL Kindred spirit It's mid-afternoon on a Friday and Diana Krall is fried. Her new album, Quiet Nights, arrived in stores earlier in the week, [...]

Byline: J.D. Considine TONY BENNETT TO PLAY TORONTO JAZZ FEST Tickets went on sale yesterday for the 23rd annual TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, which boasts a wide array [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE George Michael At the Air Canada Centre In Toronto on Thursday In Japan, people watch cherry blossoms fall to remind themselves of the transitory nature of beauty, [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE Al Green At the Sony Centre In Toronto on Thursday 'There are some people out there wondering if the Reverend's still got it,' said Rev. Al Green, [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE Almost everybody who has heard of Cyndi Lauper knows that she was born in Brooklyn - with that accent, where else could she be from? - that [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE This year, the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival will be all over the map. That's not a comment on the music - although with a lineup [...]

Byline: J.D. Considine Toronto -- Additional performers continue to be added to tomorrow's Oscar Peterson tribute concert in Toronto, the latest being American pianist Herbie Hancock. Hancock has cited Peterson [...]

Byline: J.D. CONSIDINE PAUL ANKA At Massey Hall in Toronto on Tuesday Paul Anka's last couple of albums may have created some confusion about just what the fifties teen heartthrob [...]