Category Archives: Festival Concert Photography

2013 Toronto Jazz Festival Trombone Shorty & Planet Earth

Posted on July 16, 2013 | Leave a comment

Trombone Shorty

Midway through the jazz festival and one of the bands I’ve been waiting to see again is on the Main Stage at Nathan Philips Square, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue! An amazing band with an amazing frontman! Truly entertaining and worth putting on your calender the next time they come around if you missed it.

Mike Ballard

Joey Peebles

Trombone Shorty

Opening things up was local funksters Planet Earth. They got the night rolling with their blend of funk,R&B & soul. They have been a local favorite playing numerous shows in and around town since 1998. I checked a web link for them to find more shows but it was all in Japanese, so something is amiss there, but they have a Facebook page to check out.

Planet Earth

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