Toronto’s ongoing love affair with soul music goes back several generations. Thanks to the clubs, the underground mixtape scene, house parties, radio and later – …

Toronto’s ongoing love affair with soul music goes back several generations. Thanks to the clubs, the underground mixtape scene, house parties, radio and later – …

Toronto’s ongoing love affair with soul music goes back several generations. Thanks to the clubs, the underground mixtape scene, house parties, radio and later – …

Funk & Soul Covers By Joaquim Paulo, Ed. Julius Wiedemann 576 pages. Taschen Bibliotheca Universalis Publisher  To Disco with Love – The Records that Defined …

BLUE-EYED SOUL Soul, Funk & Disco Grooves From Blue-Eyed Brothas & Sistas. Writer Jude Kelly follows up with a new installment of his column Down …

WORD Magazine has opened up the vaults for a variety of stories  — this time on one of Brazil’s biggest stars who helped to introduce …

CANADIAN R&B/SOUL THRIVES The R&B/soul movement in Canada continues to thrive. While the scene has existed since the ’60s, the last 20 years have seen …

WORD ARCHIVES Dateline: Montego Bay, Jamaica This spring, with the world’s eyes fixated on a very public manhunt for an alleged drug lord, resulting in …

A tribute to the talented Oscar Peterson at the 35th Annual IAJE Conference in Toronto.  What are your fondest memories of Oscar?  Listen to what others have to say about the Maharaja of the keyboard.

News of Oscar Peterson’s death reverberated around the world, as saddened fans, musicians and dignitaries remembered a man that Duke Ellington once called the ‘Maharaja of the keyboard.