About Tune Town

TuneTown is an exciting new collective featuring creative Toronto mainstays, Kelly Jefferson on Tenor Saxophone, Artie Roth on Bass and Ernesto Cervini on Drums. All three members are highly-respected Juno-nominated musicians with serious band leading chops, and the combination of the three leads to some breathtaking and powerful musical moments.

The band plays imaginative re-arrangements of standards, and originals from all three members. They released their debut album, “There From Here” on Slammin Media in September 2019 to rave reviews across the globe

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There From Here

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Release date: September 20th, 2019

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Tune Town's debut disc makes a strong first impression with its rugged swinging, lucid improvising, sonic exploration and forthright teamwork.

Peter Hum - The Ottawa Citizen
One of the things I liked about their performances, as in the case of other CDs featuring Cervini on drums, is their absolute unity. This is not a band that goes off in different directions, every man for himself, playing whatever comes into their heads even if it’s off the wall. Everything fits together somehow, as if the entire...

Brad Barker - Jazz FM 91.1
What comes through at each moment is the maturity and confidence of three musicians comfortably attuned to each other and sharing air time seamlessly. Chordless trios with a saxophone lead can be overpowering at times, but Tune Town avoids any potential traps. Jefferson cuts loose appropriately at times, but his soprano especially is simply gorgeous. In any of his...

Keith Black - The Winnipeg Free Press
The opening Sonic Handshake is a muscular burst of energy from the three instruments that indicates their sonic approach in fine style…. The three musicians are all very accomplished on their respective instruments and solo impressively. They also integrate effectively on the original charts, written by them.

Derek Ansell - The Jazz Journal (UK)
Nov 2019Via Google Translate: A debut of the saxophone trio formed in 2015 by members who are active in the Toronto jazz scene, such as Kelly Jefferson, Art Roth and Ernest Cervini. It is a group that lets you feel a colorful harmony and a variety of rhythms without a chord instrument. Shuffles and singles resist the trend of modern...

Takehiko Tokiwa - Jazz Life (Japan)
We are then introduced to the musical outcome of this meeting, which, of course, produces repertoire of a three-in-one design that is wholly satisfying and complete structurally and expressively – one which has been chiselled from melody and rhythm, held together by a ghostly harmonic fabric that is evoked rather than obviously stated in music to die for.

Raul Da Gama - Toronto Music Report

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