The TD Toronto Jazz Festival is excited to present a double-bill featuring two of the most exciting and important trios in contemporary jazz: the Brad Mehldau Trio and the Avishai Cohen Trio.

Kollage is Canada’s premiere hard-bop band, having earned praise for preserving the jazz tradition and providing a platform for some of Canada’s finest jazz musicians.

KUNÉ brings together eleven artists who exchange and merge their different cultures in their work, contributing to create a distinctive sound.

A Fantástica Bateria from Samba Toronto, is Canada’s premiere Brazilian Bateria ensemble, a professional group of drummers, instrumentalists, singers and dancers.

The Chris Gale Trio features three friends, is Chris Gale (tenor saxophone), Chris Banks (bass), and Morgan Childs (drums) active for many years together in various other projects.

Jerus Nazdaq has gained a certain underground notoriety in Toronto, with styles ranging from dubstep, bass, dub, progressive, psytech and organic house often tinged with certain tropical flavours.

Promising saxophonist Leon Phal features a mastery of the instrument, a great sense of melody and delicacy of his art, amplified by a devastating groove.

Nicky Schrire is a British/South African vocalist and composer based in Toronto who's "got her own thing, and it’s very much worth listening to.”

Pulkes takes listeners on an intoxicating Balkan journey, covering a diversity of genres from Afrobeats to Eastern European melodies.