Category Archives: club photography

photos taken at various clubs

Robbie Rox 40 Years in the Biz

Posted on November 19, 2013 | Leave a comment

When purusing all my e-news, blogs and other portals into the world of live music here in Toronto, I was happy to come across an ad for a show celebrating 40 years in the biz by the now Legendary Robbie Rox! Alright! I’ve been a follower and fan of Robbies since back in the Larry’s Hideaway days. This show had Robbie performing a couple sets with his band The Effect with Ken Tone, Michael Theodore and John Hobbs and inbetween those sets, a selection of some of Toronto’s finest musicians and entertainers performed in celebration of this milestone anniversary.

Here is a small sample of the pix I captured, a link to the complete gallery is here. enjoy!

Robbie Rox

Steve Ambrose

Cathy Young

Michael Fonfara

Jaymz Bee

Pat Rush

Robbie Rox

Photo Hi-lites from day 4 of the 2013 Toronto Jazz festival

Posted on July 7, 2013 | Leave a comment

I return again to the Main Stage at Nathan Philips on a hot & humid Tuesday night for Bob James & David Sanborn ft. Steve Gadd with Robi Boto Trio opening.

Despite a dropped tray of glasses during his opening number Robi just smiled and kept on playin, some serious stuff, a band I hope to see again sometime soon.

Robi Botos Trio

Bob James

Steve Gadd

David Sanborn

Later, over at the Horseshoe, the most inexpensive pint of beer during the entire festival that I found, The Robert Glasper Experiment was about to hit the stage. The place was packed! And I was left wondering how am I going to get any shots without peoples heads in the way. Well I found a way, and since I’ve been doing club photography there quite a bit in the past, I was allowed thru the secret subterranean passages of the Horseshoe to access the back stage stairwell, which takes you right up side-stage ( well they’re not really secret or anything), and here are a couple from that show.

Robert Glasper Experiment