Rabble Without A Cause
Wednesday December 22nd, 2010 with Bernard Stepien
Ottawa Pianist Peter Hum A Boy's Journey CD

Peter Hum has made extensive efforts through his writing over the years to demonstrate that Ottawa is a hot spot of top notch Jazz talents at all levels from performers to writers and broadcasters. His CD A Boy's Journey is yet another perfect demonstration of this state of affairs. This reflects through two properties, first of all, four of the five members of the group are either born or studied in Ottawa and two of them Kenji Omae and Nathan Cepelinski went straight from local high-school to the limelight of professional Jazz in the States, then second is the rich compositions written by Peter Hum himself and the near Swiss clockwork precision in the unfolding of the solos especially how they relate to each other. In other word this is a remarkable group work where the group prevails over the individual. Tonight we will extensively sample this recording and needless to say that it should sit under every Christmas tree in town. Where to buy it? Check out Peter's web site: http://www.peterhum.com/fr_home.cfm But even more important is that Peter Hum and Kenji Omae, Alec Walkington and Mike Essoudry will be performing at the Cafe Paradiso on Tuesday, December 28th at 7:30 PM. To me live Jazz always beats recorded Jazz but they are not mutually exclusive.