It’s been a tremendous year for new music, and Orange Grove Publicity is thrilled to announce that several of our clients have been included in year-end roundups from Downbeat Magazine, Textura, and JazzFM91!

Downbeat’s Best of 2023 is a celebration of records awarded 4+ star reviews during the year. We’re very happy to see albums by Matt Greenwood, Mira Choquette, and GEORGE (John Hollenbeck) included.

The excellent music site Textura has posted their list of 2023’s top 30 jazz releases, and we’re thrilled to albums by Allison Au (#3), the Composers Collective Big Band (#8), and The Nimmons Tribute (#11) on the list.

JazzFM91 – Canada’s preeminent jazz station – has published their year end review, which includes accolades for albums by William Carn, Artie Roth, and The Nimmons Tribute.

A big thanks to everyone at Downbeat, Textura, and JazzFM91, and a huge congrats to all the artists!

We’re so pleased to hear that our clients Queen Kong and So Long Seven have been nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards this year!

Queen Kong – the Toronto Klezmer fusion band led by drummer Lorie Wolf – is nominated for Instrumental Group of the Year. Additionally, Wolf is up for Instrumental Composer of the Year.

Jazz/folk fusion group So Long Seven is up for Instrumental Group of the Year and the Oliver Schroer Pushing the Boundaries Award.

Congrats to both bands!

The 2023 Juno Award nominees have been announced, and Orange Grove Publicity is thrilled to have four clients in the mix!

Jazz Album of the Year: Solo

• Ernesto Cervini: Joy
• Lauren Falls: A Little Louder Now
• Rafael Zaldivar: Rumba

Jazz Album of the Year: Group

• Carn Davidson 9: The History of Us

The 2023 Juno Awards will take place in Edmonton, Alberta from from March 10th-12th. Good luck to all the nominees!

OH YEAH!

We’re thrilled that two of our clients went home with Juno Awards last night!

A big congrats to Avataar (Jazz Album of the Year – Group) and Will Bonness (Jazz Album of the Year – Solo.)

We’re very pleased to have represented 7 Juno nominated artists this year. It was a truly great year for jazz in Canada.

Congrats to all the nominees!

Orange Grove Publicity would like to congratulate the Montreal Jazz Trio on winning the 2022 East Coast Music Award for Jazz Recording of the Year! It was a real pleasure working with them on their excellent new release.

Way to go Steve, Adrian, and Jim!

A huge congratulations to all of the Juno nominees this year! We at Orange Grove Publicity are very proud to have worked on seven releases that are up for awards this year:

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

Amanda Tosoff: Earth Voices

Alex Bird: You Are The Light and The Way

Jazz Album of the Year: Solo

Will Bonness: Change of Plans

Jesse Ryan: Bridges

Jon Gordon: Stranger Than Fiction

Jazz Album of the Year: Group

Dave Restivo Trio: Arancina

Avataar: Worldview

For more info, click here!

Thanks to Sarah Geledi for including Montreal Jazz Trio’s debut album in WBGO’s Fall Preview 2021!

“It’s Montreal jazz at the highest level.”

Read the entire piece here.

Montreal Jazz Trio will be released on Friday, October 15th on ODD SOUND.

Joel Frahm’s brilliant new trio album ‘The Bright Side’ continues to make waves! A big thanks to Kevin Whitehead at NPR and Brian Morton at Downbeat for their kind words!

You can listen to Kevin’s piece for Fresh Air here.

Brian Morton’s review is featured in the October 2021 issue of Downbeat.
“…the trio plays as a unit, with absolute confidence… He called a previous album We Used To Dance. These guys still do.”

Congrats to saxophonist and composer Joel Miller, whose brilliant album Unstoppable was awarded the 2021 East Coast Music Award for Jazz Recording of the Year! It was a real pleasure working on this record with Joel, and we’re so pleased to see it recognized by the ECMA. Cheers Joel!

A big congrats to Montreal’s Emie R Roussel Trio on their nomination for Jazz Album of the Year: Group at the 2021 Juno Awards! We’ll be watching the awards ceremony with our fingers crossed!

For the full list of nominees, click here.