It’s Saturday night and the Trane Studio is packed. A smoking-hot trumpeter sizzles onstage; an appreciative audience sits rapt. Situated miles away from Toronto’s overheated Entertainment District, the Trane – named in honour of John Coltrane – is a very hip little jazz bar, with some of the edgiest music the city has to offer. …
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