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Our new CD "The Hot Five Jazzmakers at St Andrews Church, Toronto" was released in August 2006 and
we are enjoying some very favourable reviews - here is a sample
If you wish, you can hear a track from this CD on "youtube"
Click below to listen to "We Shall Walk through The Streets of the City
Click here to listen to "We shall Walk through the Streets of The City"
The above review was by Brian Harvey, who runs a very good web site from England called "Radio
Jazz" which features traditional jazz
The above appeared in the "Toronto Star"
the writer is Geoff Chapman, the paper's jazz critic.
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Jim Galloway is the musical director of The Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, besides being one
of Canada's most accomplished and well-known jazz musicians. The above review appeared in the Nov/Dec 2006 issue of
the monthly magazine "Wholenote"
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Click here to visit the official web site of the Hot Five Jazzmakers with full information on the band and details of all
CD's recorded.
E-mail me (Brian) at briantowers@msn.com
or phone 905-821-1728 for more up-to-date information.
And now for some pics of some of
our Sunset Evening jazz cruises on Lake Ontario.
We regret that we are not planning a
lake cruise for the summer of 2006 but hope to be back with another one next year.
| The P.S. Trillium awaits the Jazz Cruisers |
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| Chuck-bs drum & Dennis-snare (sadly missed by all) |
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| Jan & Patrick form the sax section |
| Wow! Four trumpets! |
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| Alex Tevlin; Andrej Saradin; Cliff Bastien; Joe Van Rossem |
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| Jamie MacPherson plays marching banjo |
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| Cathy Clark second-lining! |
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| Noonie leads the marching band and her flock on board |
| We are on board at last! |
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| Trombones of Brian Towers and Dave Riley lead the way. |
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| The H5JM combine with Bob Misener's Magnolia Jazz Band from Ottawa for a pre-boarding parade |
The "Trillium" is the only
steam-powered, side-paddled ferry still working in North America. When it was built in 1910 it was the pride of Toronto Harbour
and ferried hundreds of thousands of people between Toronto and Toronto Island, in a time-frame that overlapped both world
wars and the jazz age. Then in 1956 came disaster. The "Trillium" was laid up and left to rot and deteriorate in a Toronto
Island lagoon for some twenty years. Redemption came in 1975, when Metro Council agreed to spend a million dollars to refurbish
it. The project was assigned to D.G. Champion Engineering Ltd. and upon completion the formal inauguration voyage took place
on June 28th 1976, 25 years ago. The first jazz lake cruise on the Trilium, after re-furbishing, appears to have taken place
in 1977.
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| Jeff Healey guests on cornet while Charlie Gall leads on trumpet. Brian looks on with interest, |
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| Roberta Hunt playing piano and putting "All her Eggs in One Basket" |
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| The Aussies are here! On stage the Sydney Zenith Jazz Band |
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| The tastefully suspendered "Hot Antic" from France on stage. |
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| Hot Antic & Hot Five relax after their friendly "Battle of the Bands" |
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| The Toronto Skyline from the "Trillium" as the sun sets. |
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