He dazzled crowds in the 1960s as the frontman for the popular Toronto band the Mandala, and in the early 1980s he opened a new edition of Club Bluenote and led its house band ...

A camp of critics and curators hoped for a bold new direction. They say the new chief looks a lot like the old.

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