“This band sounds like no other today in Jazz.” – DownBeat Magazine, listing Jane Bunnett and Maqueque as one of the Top 10 Jazz Groups in its most recent Critics Poll. TORONTO, May 31, 2019 – Ahead of next month’s headline performance at the prestigious Montreal International Jazz Festival, JANE BUNNETT has confirmed the release […]
Canadian jazz icon helps Cuban women sidestep machismo of music scene
GUY DIXON PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 30, 2018 THE GLOBE AND MAIL “Yayne!” Jane Bunnett, the soprano saxophonist and flutist whose name is synonymous with Afro-Cuban jazz, is being cued in thick Spanish, politely but insistently. As she stands, flute in hand, by the baby grand in her dining room-rehearsal space, Ms. Bunnett scrambles with the cues […]
Savannah Jazz Fest: Jane Bunnett and Maqueque bring Afro-Cuban jams
By Joshua Peacock Posted Sep 25, 2018 Savannah Now What started as a vacation ended up being a transformative trip that has become a lifelong passion and an awarding-winning music project for jazz musician Jane Bunnett. For the first time, Bunnett is bringing her Grammy Award-nominated group Maqueque to Savannah for the 37th annual Savannah Jazz Festival. […]
Monterey Jazz Extends the Welcome Mat to More Women Musicians
Monterey Jazz Extends the Welcome Mat to More Women Musicians BY ANDREW GILBERT , September 10, 2018 (This article originally appeared in San Francisco Classical Voice) I knew jazz’s glass ceiling had started to shatter when I saw the two Janes on the Monterey Jazz Festival program. Let me explain. For some 30 years, two of the world’s finest […]
Jane Bunnett: Finalist for Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
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 […]