by Sharron McLeod | Music, Promoters, Singers
In the last few weeks I have lost, Canada has lost, Toronto has lost 2 stalwarts of the jazz community, Salomé Bey and Ron Gaskin. Long before I had ever heard of Andy and the Bey Sisters, Toronto knew well the voice of Salomé Bey and her show Indigo. I first saw... 
by Sharron McLeod | Experimental, Music, Singers
100 years ago after the Spanish Flu epidemic, similarly to now, people were confined and isolated for fear of being inflected with a horrible, possibly fatal illness. It also coincided with the end of WW1 and the Jazz Age of the 1920s. It was a time of great of... 