Reviews

Mngwa


Andrew Franey


The Shangs


Alex Cuba


Tri Nguyen


Defend The Rhino


Talltale


Kiwi Jr.


Plaster


Hyness


Black Suit Devil


Yamantaka // Sonic Titan


The Pack A.D.


Chad VanGaalen


Potengowski Anna Friederike


Todd Rundgren


Old 97's


Needles//Pins

This Month

The Resurrection of Waskesu
Rod Bandura and Margit Gossage have broaght the legacy of First Nations group Waskesu into the 21st Century with their new Margit Sky Project. By Jim Dupuis.

When the Music Stopped
It is not just musicians who are idled by the Coronavirus. A whole industry of people who support the live music scene are put on the sidelines too, says industry veteran Joelle May. By Magnus Thyvold

Women's Rights, Inprovisation and Passion: The Meredith Bates Interview
Meredith Bates has been busy trying to get more women musicians in the spotlight and working hard at combining improvised music with other art forms. By Jim Dupuis

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Our Best of 2019 coverage Starts Here

Best Jazz of 2019 with Jazz Notes Jim Dupuis
Contributor and Host of Kamloops' Jazz Notes rounds up his favourite international and local Jazz releases of 2019

Mingwa - The Strange One
...a great album that really stretches what world music can be, and seamlessly blends many styles of music.

The Shangs - Golden Hits of the Shangs
...the band had another side gig going on all the while. Starting in 1990, The Shangs were a psychedelic pop off-shoot that sound very little like the main project Simply Saucer.

Alex Cuba Sublime
...a great album that will fit fine into Canadian summers lounging around on the beach.

Cutting Your Teeth With Necking
Vancouver's new punk rock heros play on the Studio 6 Live Sssions. By CJSF Radio and Magnus Thyvold

!earshot charts - May 2008 - top 20 jazz Asterisk (*) denotes Canadian artists. All !earshot charts in this issue reflect actual airplay on campus/community stations during the month of May 2008. Charts are weighted according to broadcast range and market size. To view older charts from as far back as 1999, go to our charts archive.

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Rank	Artist	Title	Label
1	Brad Mehldau Trio	Live	Nonesuch
2	Rabnett 5 *	Leopardism	Ropeadope Digital
3	Jeff Coffin And Charlie Peacock	Arc Of The Circle	Runway Network
4	Butcher/Muller/Van Der Schyff *	Way Out Northwest	Drip Audio
5	Tony Wilson Sextet*	Pearls Before Swine	Drip Audio
6	Victor Wooten	Palmystery	Heads Up
7	Sun Ra	Some Blues But Not The Kind That�s Blue	Atavistic
8	Deep Dark United *	Look At/Look Out	Rat-Drifting
9	Roy Campbell Ensemble	Akhenaen Suite	Aum Fidelity/Arts For Art
10	Rob Brown Ensemble	Crown Trunk Root Funk	AUM Fidelity
11	Gonzalo Rubalcaba	Avatar	Blue Note
12	Kronos Quartet	Terry Riley: The Cusp Of Magic	Nonesuch
13	Bill Prouten *	Low-Down, No-Good	Keyano College
14	Jacob Koller	Music For Bowlers	Tangram 7s
15	Chris Tarry Group*	Almost Certainly Dreaming	Independent
16	Paul Donat *	Rio Bossa	Independent
17	James Danderfer Group*	Accelerated Development	Cellar Live
18	Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble	Xenogenesis Suite	Firehouse 12
19	Point Of Contact	Point Of Contact	Actuelle
20	Steve Reid Ensemble	Daxaar	Domino