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Off the Cuff Top 10 playlist

A weekly gleaner of Internet sources and other media

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE
Trumpeter at Capilano University on Friday, March 31. Video at Jazz Standard – Jazzmix in New York: bit.ly/2o4WFUl.

JOHN GROSS
Saxophonist playing with Saxophilia at Presentation House on April 5. Video of John Gross performing “Flight” with drummer Billy Mintz at the Eagle Rock Art Center 11/4/07: bit.ly/2o7WSGk.

AMANDA TOSOFF
Juno nominee and CapU grad Amanda Tosoff puts poetry to music for her new album Words:
bit.ly/1Ub9Mhy. NSN interview, “Amanda Tosoff returns home with Words project”: bit.ly/28S3Poj.

BRANDI DISTERHEFT
Juno nominee and Handsworth grad. Bassist performing in a trio with Harold Mabern and Joe Farnsworth live at Dizzy’s, Jan., 2017: bit.ly/2nKEEtX. NSN interview: bit.ly/2oE3LvQ.

METALWOOD
Juno nominee. Twenty album teaser: bit.ly/2nhucqQ.

PUG & CROWS & TONY WILSON
Juno nominee. “Under Water” from Everyone Knows Everyone album. Filmed at Ironworks in Vancouver, June 19, 2015. Water imagery from a playground park in Kamikuzawa, and rain from an Onsen Hotel window in Yamagata, Japan: bit.ly/2ntnY81.

DARCY JAMES ARGUE
Juno nominee and Handsworth grad. “The Enemy Within” by Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: bit.ly/2nyM17m.

TINARIWEN
At Chan Centre on April 5. Live on KEXP: bit.ly/1g7XVrK. NSN intrview, “Tinariwen stay true to their rebel roots”: bit.ly/2m0xLBR.

FATOUMATA DIAWARA
Documentary, Mali Blues, screening at Vancity Theatre on Saturday, April 1 at 7 p.m. “Timbuktu Fasso” - Fatoumata Diawara with Amine Bouhafa: bit.ly/1B4uhkZ.  NSN interview: bit.ly/1HkuUWo.

ERIC ROHMER
The Cinematheque is screening a major retrospective on the French New Wave pioneer throughout 2017. Richard Brody New Yorker piece “Eric Rohmer’s Elusive Life”: bit.ly/2jaEd7s. Eric Rohmer entrevista François Truffaut sobre Jean Vigo: bit.ly/2oggrN9.