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Alex Moxon

Alex Moxon is a guitarist and composer from Ottawa Ontario. To date he has performed and collaborated with many stylistically far-flung Canadian music mainstays while continuing to create, refine, and release his own music. His debut album as a leader, Alex Moxon Quartet, is due to be released in 2020

Alex Moxon Quartet: Alex Moxon Quartet

Read "Alex Moxon Quartet" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 21, 2020

After gigging and teaching in his native Canada for almost two decades, guitarist Alex Moxon has recorded the first album solely under his name, and it is a well-played, mostly middle-of-the-road studio session in which his quartet may not turn any heads but should not turn anyone off either. It is simply pleasant, non-unnerving music--much of it written by Moxon--into which the ensemble pours its collective talents to produce a bright and agreeable outcome. Happily for prospective ...

Album Review

Modasaurus: 4K

by Dan McClenaghan
September 22, 2020

Modasaurus? It sounds like some pre-historic reptilian herbivore that spent a good deal of its day staying out of the clutches of the Tyrannosaurus Rex of its time, employing, we can guess, modes of avoidance, guile and deception to keep from being eaten. But our guess would be wrong. Our Modasaurus is an Ottawa-based jazz-fusion quartet, led by pianist James McGowan. The group's recording 4K covers sonic ground similar that of the early Pat Metheny Quartet, with its ...

Radio & Podcasts

Albums from Urbex, Alex Moxon, Steve Slagle and Toc

by Bob Osborne
September 17, 2020

On this week's show we feature music from Belgian drummer's Antoine Pierre's project Urbex, inspired by the electric period of Miles Davis, and in particular Bitches Brew. I also feature Canadian guitarist Alex Moxon with his debut recording and Steve Slagle celebrating Charlie Parker's centenary. There's more new music with two new releases from the Circum-Disc Label with Toc and Dave Rempis. I have another featured album from Felice Clemente's back catalogue and one or two other treats.