Posts By: Wanda Waterman St. Louis

Wanda Waterman St. Louis

In Conversation With . . . Robert Michaels

Robert Michaels is a Juno-winning Canadian musician who plays jazz, flamenco, and Latin acoustic guitar to enthusiastic audiences and who has won kudos from across North and South America and Europe. His recently released album Cubamenco is a tantalizing mix of romantic melodies and danceable rhythms and his playing has all the ancient, thrilling, brooding… Read more »

Maghreb Voices – Maghreb Jazz

?Jazz legends like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie introduced Arabic flavours in compositions such as ?Night in Tunisia,? ?Caravan,? and ?Nardis? . . . These are songs that are still played everywhere and are famous all over the world.? Jan Wouter Oostenrijk Malika Zarra was born in southern Morocco but was… Read more »

In Conversation With . . . Fort Fairfield

Fort Fairfield is the musical duo, comprising brothers John and Tom Lück, who create an atmospheric experimental music they call ?shoegaze electronic.? See review of their CD The Dead Sea Scrolls (free to download until February 28) in Gregor’s Bed. Recently, elder brother Tom took the time to chat with Wanda Waterman St. Louis about… Read more »

In Conversation With . . . Dinuk Wijeratne, Part I

Dinuk Wijeratne is a prolific composer, a brilliant pianist, and a musical visionary with an aesthetic informed by the Buddhist principle of balance. With a sensibility honed by one of the best musical educations?both academic and autodidactic?imaginable, Wijeratne is now welcoming the quiet of his newfound home in Nova Scotia as an opportunity to focus… Read more »