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Articles Written by: J.D. CONSIDINE
Who is This?
J. D. Considine (born 1957) is a well-known music critic. He has been writing about music professionally since 1977. His work has been published in numerous newspapers and music magazines, and he has contributed to several books. Over the years, he has put over three million words into print. From 1979 to 1996, he wrote for Rolling Stone. He appeared regularly on the VH1 show Four on the Floor, which was a sort of rock critic equivalent to The McLaughlin Group. It aired from 1994–96, and earned a Cable Ace nomination (Politically Incorrect took the award). He was on the staff of the Baltimore Sun from 1986 to the end of 2000, leaving to become managing editor of Revolver Magazine. He later became jazz critic at The Globe and Mail.
From the moment they started working together, on the 1978 Talking Heads album More Songs About Buildings and Food, David Byrne and Brian Eno seemed a perfect pairing. They had such a similar sense of style, of humour, of musical daring, that finding ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
27 Oct 2008
At 51, Nick Cave wears a number of hats. In addition to being a singer, songwriter and bandleader – he's in Toronto with his band the Bad Seeds to begin a two-city Canadian tour, after which they make a three-city sweep of the United States – Cave is ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
1 Oct 2008
It would be hard to imagine a better study in contrasts than seeing Nikki Yanofsky and Cesaria Evora on the same bill.
Each, in her way, is an exceptional singer, but the similarities by and large end there. At 14, Yanofsky (who opened the show) is the ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
29 Sep 2008
MONTREAL Consider Satoko Fujii something of a late bloomer. Even though she started playing piano at the age of 4, she didn't realize that improvisation was her calling until she was 20, and she didn't start recording as a jazz musician until 1996, ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
5 Sep 2008
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal At various locations in Montreal on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
It's not often that a concert can be both thrilling and disappointing at the same time.
Tuesday evening, pianist McCoy Tyner offered a concert in ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
2 Jul 2008
'Diva" is a word that gets tossed around all too lightly these days.
Implying both adulation and approbation, it refers to those female singing stars whose sense of drama is personal and permanent, and who insist on star treatment whether on stage or ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
23 Jun 2008
It's difficult to imagine a more vivid example of musical fusion than the ensemble camped out in a third-floor rehearsal room at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. In addition to violin, cello and piano - the components of a classical piano trio - ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
20 Jun 2008
This should be where Coldplay really screws up.
You know the story - band rockets to the top, gets too big for its britches, makes ridiculous album and spends the next decade trying to recapture lost momentum. From Aerosmith to Smashing Pumpkins to the ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
17 Jun 2008
It may have been a humid 27 degrees outside on Front Street, but it was the epitome of cool onstage at the Sony Centre in Toronto Friday night. There stood Leonard Cohen, impeccable in his black, double-breasted suit and grey fedora (with a matching ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
9 Jun 2008
Almost everybody who has heard of Cyndi Lauper knows that she was born in Brooklyn - with that accent, where else could she be from? - that she was a fan of the World Wrestling Federation and that she had several enormous hits in the mid-eighties, ...
From J.D. CONSIDINE,
Globe and Mail,
4 Jun 2008
