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Dan Pitt

Dan Pitt is a guitarist, composer and improviser currently based in Toronto, Canada. Along with his formal education in music, Dan has an impressive 10 year background of private studies under the guidance of notable musicians/teachers such as Bob Shields, David Restivo, Geoff Young, Andrew Downing, Brad Shepik, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder and David Torn. Dan performs regularly throughout Toronto in a variety of music genres and ensembles. He leads his own creative improv group, Dan Pitt Trio, and is co-leader of the guitar drum duo, Prophets and Nomads, the improvising trio known as Everdream, and the experimental folk band known as The Winona Collective

Stages

By Dan Pitt

Label: Self Published
Released: 2023
Track listing: Fourteen Days; Part Two; Foreboding; Tape Age; Fifteen Minutes; Ghosts; Stages.

Dan Pitt Trio: Stages

by Dan McClenaghan
August 29, 2023

Shades of Link Ray's “Rumble," from 1958. Shades of Dick Dale's 1963 hit “Miserlou." Shades of every guitar/bass/drum band that has ever set up in someone's garage in an attempt to work on their hard rock and roll chops, trying to become the next heavy metal band to hit the charts. Canadian guitarist Dan ...

New Releases Including Paul Dunmall Plus A Tribute To Peter Brötzmann

by Bob Osborne
July 27, 2023

On this show we feature new album releases from Paul Dunmall, Dan Pitt, Patrick Golden with Jim Clouse & Adam Lane, Alex Coke & Carl Michel, Doug McDonald, Altin Sencalar, David Helbock, Jason Kao Hwang, Aki Rissanen, and, Tyshawn Sorey. In addition, we mark the passing of Peter Brötzmann with three selections from his extensive music ...

Wrongs

By Dan Pitt

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Two Part; BroOke; Shadows Loom; Hunter’s Dream; What Is; Wrongs; Change is Imminent.

Wrongs

May 11, 2021

Album: Wrongs
By Dan Pitt
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:17

Dan Willis, Paul Dunmall, Amok Amor & Treesearch

by Maurice Hogue
May 5, 2021

Many jazz musicians in Poland consider playing and/or recording the music of Poland's father of jazz, Krzysztof Komeda, a rite of passage. A similar feeling exists with most jazz musicians anywhere about the music of Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and more. This episode features some recordings that follow that path. Saxophonist Dan Willis tackles ...

New Albums from Dease, Douglas, Pitt, Slagle, Sinclair and Malaby

by Bob Osborne
April 29, 2021

With today's show we focus on six new albums: Dan Pitt's third release as a leader, easily his most ambitious work yet; Dave Douglas working with Australian musicians to create unique new sounds; poll-winning trombonist Michael Dease shows us what it means to “Give It All You Got" on his eighth release for Posi-Tone; alto saxophonist ...

Dan Pitt Quintet: Wrongs

by Troy Dostert
April 16, 2021

Maybe it's a case of false humility, or a stab at irony, but guitarist Dan Pitt seems to prefer self-deprecating album titles. The Toronto-based musician's 2019 trio release, Fundamentally Flawed (Self-Produced), featured bassist Alex Fournier and drummer Nick Fraser, and his current offering, Wrongs, adds saxophonists Naomi McCarroll-Butler and Patrick Smith to the mix. For an ...

Sarah Murcia, Thumbscrew & Giancarlo Tossani

by Maurice Hogue
April 14, 2021

There's lots of new releases sampled in this episode. The critics' darlings, Thumbscrew is back and meeting their usual standards of creativity and originality. Popular French bassist Sarah Murcia sings off-beat stuff on her new Eyeballing, while the Finnish quartet Alder Ego stretches the boundaries on their latest. The pandemic looms over the new release by ...