Loreena and Lenni

I realized this evening, while watching Loreena McKennitt’s Nights from the Alhambra, that despite their vastly different musical styles, there are certain elements that she and Lenni Jabour have in common which make them my two favourite musicians. The main similarity, strangely enough, is also a difference. Both Lenni’s and Loreena’s concerts are what I…

Lenni Jabour: Greatest Hits

Seems I need to read my email more closely and/or promptly; Saturday’s post was needlessly cryptic, since Lenni had spilled the beans herself last Tuesday: In more other news, today was the first day in studio recording the long-awaited Lenni Jabour: Greatest Hits. The record will be finished for early summer release. A sneak-peek piece…

Lenni in London

To misquote Randy Newman: I love LJ! Had one of those once-in-a-lifetime evenings on Friday, thanks to Harmony Trowbridge, Adam Walters and Miss Lenni Jabour. Oh, and their concert at the London Music Club was great too: new songs all round that I already can’t wait to hear again, two lovely reminiscences about New York,…

Jeanette and Lenni

Lenni Jabour was recently interviewed on CIUT 89.5 FM, a community radio station in Toronto. As certain of you will understand, I was incredibly disappointed to find when the program aired that I was unable to listen via streaming audio (due to network issues). I got in touch with one of the station programmers, hoping…

Lenni! Come back!

My Third Floor neighbours and I have been immensely enjoying our new locale of Montreal, and are soon off to Paris. I do hope you can come to our show as it’s the last we shall do in dear Toronto for the next spell.Lenni Jabour Montreal? Paris? Augh! (And to think I’ve been encouraging Ms.…

Lenni Jabour @ C’est What

At the risk of appearing to be talking to myself (I know you folks are out there, my webserver log files say you are), I’m going to post some impressions of last night’s performance at C’est What in downtown Toronto. This is the fifth time I’ve seen Lenni and The Third Floor since April 2001,…

Guy music

It’s been mentioned more than once that my music-related posts have tended to be about female performers; for whatever reason they’ve generally been the friendlier bunch, even if they’re recently incommunicado or completely MIA. But it’s long past time to give the guys their due, and since it’s Canada Day I’ll focus on some of…