It's been just over a year since the inception of BORJONER at a cafe in downtown Calgary, where I was brainstorming names for the project that would become Borjoner. I was trying to encapsulate what we experience as Jazz musicians and what the band and I experience when playing together. After a little bit of research, it was aptly named BORJONER (pronounced BORE-JOH-NEH) and it's Old French for the term burgeoning, or to put out buds.
The sprouts of inspiration we seek and experience as artists are like those buds pushing through the ground, and while we wish we could show you in person what happens when we play together, my hope is that we can be together in spirit on Friday, June 26.
Join us as we talk about the album and how it came to be.
xo
AJ