January jazz-ish

Trio of Bloom, Go Kurosawa, Sarathay Korwar + Toronto live music listings

Spent the holidays scouring year-end lists for 2025 records I missed — mostly of the jazz persuasion.

I was also cleaning out some old boxes and was reminded that in 1987 Now Magazine’s EIC Michael Hollett thought Men Without Hats’ Pop Goes the World was the best album of the year — on a top 10 list that didn’t include U2 or Prince. (It did, however, ha…