A great new online resource for all things Canadian Jazz.

- archived performances from 30 years of the JAZZ.FM91 Sound of Jazz (formerly Sound of Toronto) Concert Series
- in-depth documentaries on iconic Canadian jazz artists
artist biographies and a chronology of jazz in Canada
- fun classroom-ready teaching tools
canadianjazzarchive.org

Been wondering where all those great photograghs come from on all your favorite albums? Well chances are a fair few are from photographer Pete Turner.

Many know these records by their cover photos alone: the “Giraffe” album (Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Wave”); the “Cheetah” album (Hubert Laws’s “The Rite Of Spring” – Mr. Laws’s albums were always on the receiving end of some of Turner’s best work); or “Road Song”, Wes Montgomery’s final album and one of Turner’s most iconic photos. These are just a few of the examples of how Pete Turner’s photographs defined the music they were attached to.

Check out an album cover discography of Pete Turner’s work here.

Guitarist John McLaughlin’s latest tour will include a stop at Toronto’s Massey Hall on October 5th, so check out this interview at allaboutjazz.com with the man himself.

“I’m not a big fan of what they call smooth jazz, simply because it seems too plastic for me. So I found myself, twelve or thirteen years ago, looking into the underground, and a lot of what you hear with these young guys, what they’re doing with these underground records, is basically noise, but it’s very interesting. Because what is noise? In a way, if you have the right perspective everything is musical. People don’t walk, they dance; and they don’t speak, they sing, depending on what state of mind they’re in.”

And while your at it swing over to johnmclaughlin.com