★★★★★
T.O. rapper Jazz Cartier kicked off his set with "Too Many Tales," in which he raps that "I don't need nobody else." It was apt; Cartier oozed confidence, starting chill as though he had nothing to prove, then leaning into the slightly harder "The Valley." Cartier already has a grasp on set construction -- "Let's turn it up just a little bit," he'd say between songs -- and a live presence that, frankly, stood out among the other performers...
- exclaim.ca
2015-11-21
★★★★★
Following his sold out, swinging-from-the-rafters Friday (May 8) show at The Garrison, which served as a coronation performance for the rising Toronto rapper, Jazz Cartier got the chance to test out songs from debut project , and his visuals, in a larger venue, opening for New York's Joey Bada$$. Taking the stage promptly to the cinematic spoken word intro of "Guardian Angel," the 22-year-old performed in front of a projector screen showing G20 protest footage of burning police cars, various...
- exclaim.ca
2015-05-11
★★★★★
Jazz Cartier is Toronto's first post-Drake rapper, an artist who benefits from Drake's razing of American rap's once-inviolable boundaries, but with no formal ties to the OVO crew. Jazz, who also goes by Jacuzzi La Fleur, has managed to build a sizable local fan base--still rare in a city long referred to by local artists as the Screwface Capital--by establishing a grimier counter-narrative to Drake's opulent, uptown vision of a city newly christened The Six...
- pitchfork.com
2015-05-05
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