We at Orange Grove Publicity are very happy top announce that eight of our releases were among Earshot’s list of the 20 most played jazz records on Canadian campus and community radio in 2020!

#1 Audrey Ochoa – Frankenhorn (Chronograph Records)
#5 Local Talent – Higienopolis (Self-Released)
#6 Emie R. Roussel Trio – Rythme De Passage – (UNI musiqc)
#10 Peripheral Vision – Irrational Revelation & Mutual Humiliation – (Step3)
#12 Robert Lee – Ascension (Self-Released)
#15 The Shuffle Demons – Crazy Time (Stubby)
#17 Ernesto Cervini – Tetrahedron (Anzic)
#19 Mark Godfrey – Square Peg (Self-Released)

Congrats to all the artists!

Many thanks to JazzTimes magazine for hosting the premiere of the Doxas Brothers’ new video! Check out the video for their song “Uno a la Vez” from their forthcoming album The Circle (featuring Marc Copland and Adrian Vedady) at JazzTimes today!

The Circle will be released October 23rd on Justin Time Records.

The winners of the 2020 Juno Awards have been announced, and Orange Grove Publicity is thrilled to count two clients among the winners! A huge congrats to Montreal trumpeter Jacques Kuba Sequin and Toronto drummer (and OGP boss) Ernesto Cervini for their wins for Jazz album of the year: solo (Migrations) and jazz album of the year: group (Abundance, with Cervini’s group Turboprop.)

The list of nominees for the 2020 Juno Awards has been released, and Orange Grove Publicity is thrilled to announce that five of our clients are up for awards this year!

Jazz Album of the Year: Solo
Joel Miller: Unstoppable
Ted Quinlan: Absolutely Dreaming
Jacques Kuba Séguin: Migrations

Jazz Album of the Year: Group
Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop: Abundance
Al Muirhead’s Canadian Quintet: Undertones

Congratulations and best of luck to all the nominees!

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Congratulations to vocalist Deanne Matley on her feature in Downbeat Magazine! Read J.D. Considine’s ‘Indie Life’ column in the September issue – and online now!

Six years ago, as Deanne was building her career as a jazz singer in Calgary, Alberta, fans kept approaching her after performances to ask if she had released any albums. So, Matley took the hint and decided to do it herself…

Read more at Downbeat.com

The nominations for the 2018 Juno Awards have been announced, and Orangeoo Grove Publicity is thrilled that four of our clients are up for awards this year!  Congratulations to our founder Ernesto Cervini and his group Turboprop, The Carn Davidson Nine, and Andrew Downing and Otterville for their nominations for Jazz Album of the Year (Group) ; and to Mike Downes for his nomination for Jazz Album of the Year (Solo).  (An extra tip of the hat to saxophonist Tara Davidson, who’s featured on three of the four recordings.)

The JUNO Awards will be held on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th in Vancouver, Canada.

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Congratulations to Jamie Reynolds, whose new album ‘Grey Mirror’ (Fresh Sound New Talent) received a ★★★★1/2 review from Brian Zimmerman in the December 2017 issue of DownBeat magazine!

Pianist Jamie Reynolds is an artist who thinks in big pictures and broad strokes. But on the orchestrational level, he’s all about detail and nuance. That’s a winning combination, and it works to mellifluous effect on Grey Mirror.

Congrats Jamie!