OJH Library

OJH Library

Ottawa Jazz Happening's Library collects articles and resources that are of interest to the local Ottawa jazz community. Articles are generally added every week. If you would like to be kept informed, please subscribe to the OJH newsletter.

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May 28, 2025 - Music Does Something Amazing to Your Brain's Own Natural Rhythms

May 21, 2025 - How Credence Clearwater Revival saved jazz

May 14, 2025 - Sonny Greenwich’s artistry is musical seduction

May 7, 2025 - International Jazz Day concert in Abu Dhabi

April 30, 2025 - International Jazz Day

April 23, 2025 - Ten essential Joni Mitchell covers

April 16, 2025 - Ted Nash cedes Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra chair to first female member

April 9, 2025 - 1 girl, 18 jazz pianists

April 2, 2025 - 2025 Juno Award winners

March 26, 2025 - Instrumental music lovers smarter than others?

March 19, 2025 - Jazz-related entries in the Guinness Book of Records

March 12, 2025 - T. K. Blue profile

March 5, 2025 - Jazz Camp clinicians' teaching resources

February 26, 2025 - Articles on jazz written by AI

February 19, 2025 - 2025 Juno Award nominees

February 12, 2025 - Adult jazz camps (Downbeat) and Black Canadians Who Shaped the World of Jazz

Februrary 5, 2025 - 2025 Grammy Award winners

January 29, 2025 - Renée Rosnes interview in Downbeat

January 22, 2025 - The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett

January 15, 2025 - The jazz greats we lost in 2024

January 8, 2025 - Best jazz albums of 2024

December 18, 2024 - Deck the Halls with Vince Guaraldi

December 11, 2024 - Ian Mackenzie's Conversations in Jazz with Charley Gordon

December 4, 2024 - Canadian connection to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue

November 27, 2024

November 20, 2024 - Monk’s Rhythm-A-Ning and Mary Lou Williams

November 13, 2024 - Downbeat 89th Annual Readers’ Poll 2024

November 6, 2024 - Quincy Jones

October 30, 2024 - Meyer Baba, who inspired both Bobby McFerrin and Pete Townsend

October 23, 2024 - Lawrence Welk: Some champagne for the folks (1957)

October 16, 2024 - Brain scans of jazz musicians

October 9, 2024 - Online calendar Jazz in Toronto

October 2, 2024 - Jazz in Montreal

August 28, 2024 - Charlie Parker and "Albino" Red Rodney

August 21, 2024 - Interview with Sam Cousineau and his tribute to Charlie Parker

August 14, 2024 - Oscar Peterson Day live stream from Jazz FM91

August 7, 2024 - Far Side cartoons

July 31, 2024 - The surprising, enduring friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald

July 24, 2024 - The most famous solo in jazz history? Paul Gonsalves on Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Newport in 1956

July 17, 2024 - Blue Note to release Wayne Shorter's Celebrations Vol. 1

July 10, 2024 - 50th anniversary of Bill Evans Trio at Camp Fortune

July 3, 2024 - Miles Davis and Brian Wilson

June 26, 2024 - The Canadian Jazz Collective at Jazz at Lincoln Center July 1

June 19, 2024 - An education in music makes you a better employee

June 12, 2024 - 1980 conversation between Count Basie and Oscar Peterson about the legendary Art Tatum

June 5, 2024 - Interview with William Carn of Carn Davidson 9

May 29, 2024 - Paul Desmond

May 22, 2024 - David Sanborn obit

May 15, 2024 - Ross Morgan interview with Ron Carter

May 8, 2024 - Lorne Lofsky: Steward of the Canadian Guitar Tradition

May 1, 2024 - Loss of Phil Nimmons

April 24, 2024 - International Jazz Day

April 17, 2024 - Ottawa Jazz Festival Featured in Downbeat magazine

April 10, 2024 - Julian Lang and "Gear Anxiety"

April 3, 2024 - Astrud Gilberto

March 27, 2025 - 2024 Juno Award nominees and winners

March 20, 2024 - Turboprop's Canadian Songbook

March 13, 2024 - The Night Charlie Parker Blew Away Stravinsky

March 6, 2024 - 2024 Ottawa Jazz Festival

February 28, 2024 - A parking garage door does a Miles Davis impression

February 21, 2024 - Juno Awards 2024: A guide to the jazz nominees

February 14, 2024 - John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy

February 7, 2024

January 31, 2024 - Easy Jazz FM

January 24, 2024 - 2024 Grammy Nominations

January 17, 2024 - Ottawa Jazz Radio arrives

January 10, 2024 - Downbeat's Best Albums of 2023

January 3, 2024 - Best Jazz 2023

December 20, 2023 - Christmas Jazz

December 13, 2023 - Downbeat Musician Polls

Downbeat Critics Poll 2023 (p. 22)
Downbeat Readers Poll 2023 (p. 16)

December 6, 2023 - The Best Xmas Songs Ever Recorded

November 29, 2023 - Laila Biali

November 22, 2023 - Interview with Steve Boudreau and Peter Hum

November 15, 2023 - JAZZ.FM91 Canadian jazz time capsule

November 8, 2023- Postmodern Jukebox's cover of One Week by the Bare Naked Ladies

November 1, 2023 - Spooky Halloween Jazz

10 Spooky Songs For This October (from JazzFuel)
Halloween jazz: 20 songs for a hip and haunting night (from JazzFM91)

October 25, 2023

October 18, 2023 - Matt Fripp's Criminally Underrated Jazz Musicians in History!

October 11, 2023 - John Inder's Does music really make you better at math?

October 4, 2023 - Don Braden's Earth Wind and Wonder Volume 2

September 27, 2023 - Justin Time Records celebrates 40th anniversary with compilation album

September 20, 2023 - It’s time to get rid of your Real Book

September 13, 2023 - Michael Kaeshammer premieres new cooking TV show

September 6, 2023 - Busting Myths in Jazz History: Focus on the Music

August 30, 2023 - New documentary about Wayne Shorter

August 23, 2023 - Yogi Berra Explains Jazz

August 16, 2023 - Canadian jazz artists at Germany’s jazzahead!

August 9, 2023 - Neon Jazz Interview with James McGowan

August 2, 2023 - Spotlight on Nina Simone

July 26, 2023

July 19, 2023 - Renée Rosnes: Kinds of Piano Love

July 12, 2023 - When To Use iReal Pro To Learn Jazz

July 5, 2023 - Herbie Hancock in Ottawa

June 28, 2023 - 100 Best Jazz Podcasts

June 21, 2023 - How to Learn Jazz According to A.I.

June 14, 2023 - Why improv jazz could be the key to understanding quantum weirdness

June 7, 2023 - Interview with Pat Metheny by Rick Beato

May 31, 2023 - Internet radio

May 24, 2023 - Best books about jazz

May 17, 2023 - Quotes About Jazz from 10 Legendary Musicians & Singers

May 10, 2023 - Rhythm and Roots: The Influence of Jazz on Ska and Early Reggae

May 3, 2023 - Wanted: Jazz Album Liner Notes

Apr. 26, 2023 - Lineups for nearby jazz festivals:

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 23–20
Toronto Jazz Festival, June 23 – July 2
Montreal Jazz Festival, June 29 – July 8
Prince Edward County Jazz Festival, Aug. 15–20

Apr. 19, 2023 - Greatest female jazz musicians from Classical Music magazine

Apr. 12, 2023 - JAZZ.FM91 Canadian Jazz Time Capsule

Apr. 5, 2023 - Oliver Jones to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame

Mar. 29, 2023 - Keith Jarrett

Mar. 22, 2023 - Artificial Intelligence and All About Jazz? DIG 9000 jams with ChatGPT

Mar. 15, 2023 - 2023 Junos: Jazz Highlights

Mar. 8, 2013 - Two stories about subbing in Wayne Shorter's Quartet

Mar. 1, 2023 - What makes that song swing?

Feb. 22, 2023 - Jazz musician Guido Basso dead at 85

Feb. 15, 2023 -Mothers in Jazz

Feb. 8, 2023

Feb. 1, 2023 - Joni Mitchell recipient of prestigious Gershwin prize

Jan. 25, 2023 - Best of 2022, Part 3

The Year in Jazz (Midnight Passages, KLCC)
The 10 best Canadian jazz albums of 2022 (Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen)
The Top 40 Jazz Albums of 2022 (Jazz Times)
The Top 10 Historical Albums of 2022 (Jazz Times)
Best Jazz Albums of 2022 (NY Times, subscription model)

Jan. 18, 2023 - Best of 2022, Part 2

Year in review: 25 of the best jazz albums of 2022 (JazzFM91)
The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2022 (JazzWise)
Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022 (All About Jazz)

Jan. 11, 2023 - Videos of the JazzWorks Memorial Concert June 12, 2022

Jan. 4, 2023 - The Year in Jazz

Dec. 21, 2022 - Compilation of the best of 2022 from All About Jazz

Dec. 14, 2022 - 100 Things on a List for Aspiring Jazz Singers

Dec. 7, 2022 - The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World

Nov. 30, 2022 - All About Jazz readers' polls

Nov. 23 , 2022 - Latin Jazz Grammy Awards

Nov. 16, 2022 - 2023 Grammy Jazz Nominations

Nov. 9, 2022 - Best Books About Jazz

Nov. 2, 2022 - The Ostara Project

Oct. 26, 2022 - First Annual Jazz Music Awards

Oct. 19, 2022 - Interview with Ernesto Cervini

Oct. 12, 2022 - Radio show has kept people connected during the pandemic

Oct. 5, 2022 - Favorite Herbie Hancock Tracks

Sept. 28, 2022 - Terri Lyne Carrington Curates Groundbreaking Lead Sheet Book of Female-Composed Jazz Standards

Sept. 21, 2022 - Interview with Brian Asselin of the Commotions

Sept. 14, 2022 - The Royal Conservatory Announces Robi Botos as Inaugural Jazz Artist in Residence

Sept. 7, 2022 - 10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1970s

August 31, 2022 - All About Jazz magazine

August 24, 2022 - Jazz Scene with Charles Maxey

August 17, 2022 - Canada's newest coin pays tribute to Oscar Peterson

August 10, 2022 - JAZZ.FM91 Declares August 15 as Oscar Peterson Day

August 3, 2022 - 70th Annual DownBeat Critics Poll

July 27, 2022 - Mark Ferguson interview on Conversations with Musicians

July 20, 2022 - Jazzology (jazz trivia game)

July 13, 2022 - Cory Henry blog

July 6, 2022 - Jazz Meets the Beatles: Celebrating Global Beatles Day

June 29, 2022 - Modern Jazz Today playlists

June 22, 2022 - Renée Yoxon exemplifies the inclusivity of jazz

June 15, 2022 - 2022 International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert

June 8, 2022 - JAZZIZ Travel podcasts

June 1, 2022 - All That's Jazz podcasts

May 25, 2022 - Jazz, the Charleston and Moral Panic

May 18, 2022 - 2022 Juno Awards (jazz)

May 11, 2022 - Salome Bey commemorative stamp

May 4, 2022 - May the 4th Be With You (Andrew Allen)

Apr. 27, 2022 - Lists of Jazz Pianists

Apr. 20, 2022 - Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival 2022

Apr. 13, 2022 - Where Jazz Lives Now

Apr. 6, 2022 - 2022 Grammy Awards

Mar. 30, 2022 - Instrumental Women: A Playlist by Laila Biali

Mar. 23, 2022 - Terri Lyne Carrington on Gender Justice in Jazz and Beyond

Mar. 16, 2022 - Roddy Ellias – New Record “Not This Room”

Mar. 9, 2022 - Black + White nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards

Mar. 2, 2022 - Juno Awards 2022: A guide to the jazz nominees

Feb. 23, 2022 - These 10 Canadian artists are looking to take their music to the next level

Feb. 16, 2022 - The Best Jazz Musicians Of All-Time

Feb. 9, 2022 - Ernesto Cervini's Canadian Modern Jazz Playlist

Feb. 2, 2022 - Best Jazz Albums (JazzWise)

Jan. 26, 2022 - 2021 and Jazz Musicians (National Public Radio articles)

Jan. 19, 2022 - Best Jazz of 2021 Part 3

Bandcamp's The Best Jazz of 2021
AOTY's The Best Jazz Albums of 2021
StereoGums' The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2021
PopMatters' The 13 Best Jazz Albums of 2021
Brooklyn Vegan's 12 Great Jazz Albums from 2021
Treble's The 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2021

Jan. 12, 2022 - Best Jazz of 2021 Part 2

Downbeat's Best Albums of 2021
The NY Times' Best Jazz Albums of 2021
Jazz Buffalo's 20 Favorite Jazz Albums of 2021
Best of Jazz's Best of Jazz – Year 2021
The Guardian's 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2021
Slate's The Best Jazz Albums of 2021

Jan. 5, 2022 - Best Jazz of 2021 Part 1

Jazz FM91's 25 Best Jazz Albums of 2021
CBC's Favourite Cdn Jazz Albums of 2021
JazzTime's Top 40 Jazz Albums of 2021
JazzTimes' Top 10 Historical Albums of 2021
JazzWise's Best Jazz Albums of 2021

Dec. 20, 2021 - Christmas jazz playlists:

Dec. 15, 2021 - Jon Baptista and the 2022 Grammys

Dec. 8, 2021 - Musical Advent Calendar

Dec. 1, 2021 - Artistic Digs Episode 9 featuring Tara Davidson

Nov. 24, 2021 - JazzWorks Jam Under the Ottawa River Watershed, Author: Dave Finlayson

Nov. 10, 2021 - 35 Best Canadian Jazz Artists Under 35 (CBC)

Nov. 3, 2021 - Stories from Home - Mike Downes

Oct. 27, 2021 - Ear To Ear: Celebrating Canadian Jazz Greats

Oct. 20, 2021 - Canadian jazz legend reflects on career, Africville roots

Oct. 13, 2021 - Royal Conservatory of Music renames school in honour of Oscar Peterson

Oct. 6, 2021 - This Vancouver jazz label is thriving during the pandemic (Cory Weeds)

Sept. 29, 2021 - Jazz Coalition shares online gallery of 104 musicians’ new works

Sept. 22, 2021 - COVID-19 and the Creative Music Ecology

Sept. 15, 2021 - What is This Music? Blog: Episode 28 Nick Fraser - Sibling Rivalry

Sept. 8, 2021 - What science tells us about reducing coronavirus spread from wind instruments

Sept. 1, 2021 - Conversation with Roddy Ellias

August 25, 2021 - CKCU Playlist prepared by David Fraser

August 18, 2021 - Joni Mitchell among Kennedy Center Honourees for 2021

August 11, 2021 - Pandemic Prompts Changing of Lives

August 4, 2021 - Live Indoor Music Is Returning to Toronto and Jazz Musicians Are Thrilled

July 28, 2021 - Thompson Egbo-Egbo Portrays Oscar Peterson in New Heritage Minute

July 21, 2021 - Claire Devlin: Tenor of the Times

July 14, 2021 - Excitement and Challenges as Restaurants Start to Resume Indoor Dining

July 7, 2021 - Renee Rosnes Enlists All-Star Cast Quintet for Kinds of Love

June 30, 2021 - Can Streaming Pay? Musicians Are Pinning Fresh Hopes on Twitch: New York Times

June 16, 2021 - Stories from Home — Tara Davidson & William Carn

June 9, 2021 - Musicians Say Streaming Doesn't Pay: New York Times

June 2, 2021 - Post-Covid Piano, Author: Ron Drotos

May 26, 2021 - Canadian Guitar Master Lorne Lofsky

May 12, 2021 - How the Pandemic Has Upended the Lives of Three Touring Ottawa Musicians

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