Crosby/Dwyer/Melanson/Ng

This new quartet returns for Karen Ng’s Tranzac monthly Ted Crosby – sax, clarinet Ben Dwyer – bass Phil Melanson – drums Karen Ng – sax, clarinet

Marilyn Lerner/Matt Brubeck Duo

Marilyn Lerner-piano and Matt Brubeck-cello, in dialogue, compositions and improvisations. Join us for an evening of sublimity.

Chris Banks + The Adjacence

Saxophonist and curator Karen Ng invites guests and collaborators every month to present a night of improvised music or music that lies outside expectations.  Karen Ng presents: Chris Banks – solo synth & electronics *debut performance! + The Adjacence Lina Allemano – trumpet Ryan Driver – bristle bass Nick Fraser – drums Karen Ng – […]

Rubber City x Miniheartsbeatingintimedexplosion

The culmination of half a decade of collaboration between Lima/Montreal based experimental bass player and producer Rodolfo Rueda and Maine/Montreal based avant-jazz saxophonist Julian Abbott–Rubber City is an exploration of raw sound influenced by free jazz and noise using extended techniques, unpractical ways of playing instruments, and electronics to find untrod sonic spaces. miniheartsbeating… is […]

Karen Ng Presents: Gill/Howard/Murphy/Ng

Saxophonist and curator Karen Ng invites guests and collaborators every month to present a night of improvised music or music that lies outside expectations. This month’s Karen Ng presents features a first time quartet of: Tania Gill – piano, Blake Howard – drums, Kae Murphy – trumpet, Karen Ng – sax

Chris Bezant Presents Django

Chris Bezant Presents Django’ brings together a diverse selection of Toronto’s heavyweights to celebrate and explore the unceasing impression that Django Reinhardt continues to leave on music today. Join Chris Bezant, Jon Meyer, Simon Diamond, and Mo Mitchell, as they peer through one of the countless facets of the jewel that is Django’s legacy. Come […]

Sean Dubh

Sean Dubh presents: Turn To Your Shadow – an evening of soulful folk inspired dreamscapes with live visuals. Sean Dubh reemerges to share his contemplative body of work themed around identity, the search for meaning and for mystery through soundscapes, intricate guitar woven melodies and earthborn song. Backed by Ted Crosby (sax), Andrew Kobus (bass) […]

Karen Ng Presents

Saxophonist and curator Karen Ng invites guests and collaborators every month to present a night of improvised music or music that lies outside expectations. 

Nicole Rampersaud / Off World Double LP Release + Playdate

Double LP release show. Off World (Constellation Records) release their swan-song “3” and perform live as an ensemble consisting of Sandro Perri (electronics), Andrew Zukerman (electronics), Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet), Martin Arnold (electric guitar) and Josh Cole (electric bass). Nicole Rampersaud releases her stunning debut LP “Saudade” (Ansible Editions) and performs solo (trumpet + electronics). Playdate […]