FEATURED
PERFORMANCES
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
(Planet
Earth opens)
8pm,
Nathan Phillips Square
A brash
brand of supafunkrock,
a mash-up of
jazz, funk and soul backed with hard-rock power chords and
hip-hop beats
Canadian Jazz Quartet with Special
Guest Houston Person
7:30pm,
Home Smith Bar, Old Mill Toronto (21 Old Mill Road)
A
giant of soul and groove based jazz joins the all-star quartet
Carmen Souza
8pm
& 10pm, Jazz Bistro (251 Victoria Street)
An
incandescent, jazz-tinged singer with a cool, smoky sound
Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance
Party feat. Meshell Ndegeocello
10pm,
Horseshoe Tavern (370 Queen Street West)
Reinterpreting the works of Fats
Waller, whose music was the soundtrack to the original dance
party in the 20s
and 30s, the two will transform Waller’s rollicking stride piano
style into
contemporary dance music
FREE
PERFORMANCES
Toronto Jazz Orchestra
12:30pm,
Toronto Star Stage, Nathan Phillips Square
An
18-piece big band comprised of some of the city’s best young
jazz musicians
Band Bajha Brass
3pm,
WIFI Patio, Nathan Phillips Square
Combining
traditional aspects of Indian wedding band with funk grooves and
jazz-infused
solos
Shannon Butcher Quartet
6pm,
Trinity Stage, Distillery District
Maylee Todd
7pm,
Shops at Don Mills (1090 Don Mills Road)
A
frees spirit who combines a mix of musical sounds into honest,
soulful,
harmonious yet uncompromising vibrations
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