“This band sounds like no other today in Jazz.” – DownBeat Magazine, listing Jane Bunnett and Maqueque as one of the Top 10 Jazz Groups in its most recent Critics Poll. TORONTO, May 31, 2019 – Ahead of next month’s headline performance at the prestigious Montreal International Jazz Festival, JANE BUNNETT has confirmed the release […]
Canadian jazz icon helps Cuban women sidestep machismo of music scene
GUY DIXON PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 30, 2018 THE GLOBE AND MAIL “Yayne!” Jane Bunnett, the soprano saxophonist and flutist whose name is synonymous with Afro-Cuban jazz, is being cued in thick Spanish, politely but insistently. As she stands, flute in hand, by the baby grand in her dining room-rehearsal space, Ms. Bunnett scrambles with the cues […]