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Presenters Take Notice! If
you're looking for just another piano show, think again!
"Paul Tobey's Playing
Style and Showmanship Are In the One-Of-A-Kind
Domain Reserved For Top Professionals."
Linda Geary - Brantford Expositor Read
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Not since Liberace has a
pianist captivated audiences like Paul Tobey.
His music is sophisticated yet accessible. And, his stage
presence is energetic, funny and infectious.
What makes Paul Tobey's Concerts so different?
Click here to find out!
For Paul Tobey's Biography
and Discography click here.
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What Are The
Critics Saying
About Paul Tobey?
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"One of Tobey's greatest gifts is his ability
to improvise in the same league as J.S. Bach and come out
sounding like an equal." Linda
Geary, Brantford Expositor Read More
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"There wasn't a soul in the audience who didn't
come away thoroughly entertained." Harrie
Currie, Kitchener Waterloo Record
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"Tobey gets right inside a piece and shows us
what it is made of." Murray Charters
Brantford Expositor
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"Frenzied Mob Right About New Christmas CD" Murray
Charters Brantford Expositor
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Read More Reviews...
"Creativity
has been a constant companion for pianist Paul Tobey
as he treks 800 kilometers across France and Spain
in a spiritual journey that will culminate in a documentary
film."
Read More About - A Journey of a Lifetime - Brantford
Expositor |
"Tobey,
meanwhile, managed to hike 25 kilometers daily, an
18 kilo pack strapped to his lanky frame. Needing
room for a keyboard and laptop computer, his backpack
contained just two shirts, one pair of pants - meaning
that day's clothing had to be washed out each night
by hand. Food was a challenge: Tobey suffers from
tinnitus, and finds that bread, cheese and wine- all
staples of a pilgrim's diet in spain - aggravate his
hearing condition." Read
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"Paul
Tobey, Canadian jazz man - yep, he's got it. Tobey
has a refreshingly unique approach to jazz piano...a
lot of things coming together to gel into an individualist's
style that gives this quartet recording Tobey's own
distinctive voice. I don't know what kind of audience
he has, but he deserves a huge one." Read
More - The American Reporter
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"Shut your
eyes and you begin to feel you're at a stageside table
listening to this wonderful quartet on stage. I have
to wonder: if an artist comes out of the gate with
a release this good, where can he go from here?"
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"The CD represents
the arrival of a mature artist with not only a performance
capacity of the highest level, but also the compositional
imagination for a varied repertoire. Through perseverance
and an abundance of extroverted talent, Paul Tobey
finally has revealed himself to a wide international
audience to be an outstanding pianist and a group
leader who individualistically honors the jazz tradition,
even as he extends it." Read
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"Tobey is
light and exceedingly quick at the keyboard his right
hand's a real marvel." Read
More - Globe and Mail
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"Here is
some gorgeous, straight ahead jazz in a swinging,
contemporary framework that sounds fresh, bright,
at time even compelling. Contemporary Jazz does not
get any better!"
Read More - Montreal Gazette |
"Paul Tobey
is one of the finest jazz pianists to come out of
Canada! His new CD collection, Street Culture, is
without doubt one of the most polished and technically
perfect jazz piano outings to arrive in recent years,
full of sensitive piano phrasings, harmonic inventions,
and notes that never miss their target!" Read
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"When jazz
fans hear Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck or Bill Evans,
they know immediately who's playing. In the next couple
of years the same will be true for Paul Tobey, for
he has everything it takes to join the legends."
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More - Kitchener Record |
"...it came
as no surprise to read that Tobey studied with Kenny
Barron. I was also reminded of keyboard artists such
as Cedar Walton, George Cables and Tommy Flanagan.
Like Tobey, each combines prodigious harmonic/melodic
and pianistic chops to make music that ins never merely
pleasant and unfailingly rich and deep." Read
More - Jazz Weekly |
"The first
thing you notice from the opening title track of Paul
Tobey's CD Street Culture is - man. These guys can
play fast." Read
More - Ottawa Citizen |
Pianist, composer
Paul Tobey, judging from Street Culture, may well
turn out to be the next distinctive jazz pianist to
emerge from Canada...outstanding album!" Read
More - CD NOW |
"Tobey is
a highly skilled pianist who keeps original ideas
flowing..." Read
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"Tobey earned
a jazz studies degree from Concordia University by
developing an agile, lyrical piano style hinting at
Bill Evans, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock...(the
CD) demonstrated an extraordinary blend of balance
and ensemble texture as well as the leader's flair
for original compositions." Read
More - Toronto Star |
"Tobey plays
with absolute assurance throughout, in a manner that
has its sources in the harmonic feel of the late Bill
Evans and the Keyboard approach of a Chick Corea."
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More - Opus Magazine |
Perhaps the most
rewarding discovery is Tobey's brilliance a the piano.
He has magic in his right hand, which is constantly
inventing. Read
More - Planet Jazz |
"His virility
and passion recall a young Dodo Marmaros, who routinely
combined single notes with five and six note clusters
that burst at the seams, at times sounding like an
entire brass section." Read
More - Pittsburgh Post
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"Paul Tobey
whipped through a virtuoso demonstration of fat melodic
invention. With Oscar Peterson-like flourish, his
self-assured trio shot through standards and a few
originals and standards with accomplished control..."
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More Local, National and US Reviews
Tobey's
Gift to His Mom - Kitchener Record
Two
Stories, One Impressive Gig - Globe and
Mail
Music
Fans Treated to a Marathon of Jazz - Edmonton
Journal
Jazz
Trio Triumphs Over Tedium - Fredericton
Gleaner
Skills
of Tobey Displayed in Sanderson Live CD - Brantford
Expositor
Tobey's
DVD Show You What You Missed - Brantford
Expositor
Jazz
52nd Street
Tobey's
Tunes Tickle Fancy - G21
A
High-Caliber Session - Cadence
Wayward
Is Anything But - Globe and Mail
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"Paul's creativity
in making another song his own is really something
to experience. I felt very blessed to have been
present to see, hear, and feel, such great
entertainment!" Gail Obediah
"The (Christmas)
CD is fabulous! I had to miss the concert
because I had already purchased tickets for the
folk festival that was being held on the same
date, so I was thrilled to be able to buy the
CD. Some of my friends had attended the concert
and they all raved about it;
now, at least I have a part of it."
Mary Gladwin
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