Four-time JUNO Award winner, two-time Grammy nominee, and Officer of the Order of Canada, soprano saxophonist/flautist Jane Bunnett has been chosen as a finalist for the Ontario 2014 Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. The award, through Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, recognizes extraordinary achievements of the province’s artists and arts organizations. […]
Six questions for Jane Bunnett about Maqueque By Peter Hum
Just because the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival has concluded doesn’t mean that potent live jazz won’t allowed within the city limits for the rest of the week. In fact, Toronto saxophonist and flutist Jane Bunnett will play four concerts later this week (two per night on Thursday and Friday) at GigSpace. Fresh from a two-run […]
Press Release From DL Media Music
Jane Bunnett Forms Exhilarating New All Female band, Maqueque, Blending Afro-Cuban, Soul and Jazz – Self-Titled Release Available in United States on September 9 via Justin Time Records “…Bunnett integrates her flute and soprano sax into the Cubans’ music, giving us the best of the past and the contemporary.” – JazzTimes For more than thirty years, […]
Jane Bunnett’s Cuba immersion expands
Sometimes referred to in print (lovingly or sarcastically) as Havana Jane because of her passion for Cuba and its musicians, one of the most tireless advocates on behalf of Cuban jazz and folkloric musicians in North America has been soprano saxophonist-flutist Jane Bunnett. Conversation with Willard Jenkins. Published by The Independent Ear at openskyjazz.com (April […]