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Evan Tighe

Evan Tighe is a Montreal-based drummer and composer who specializes in contemporary jazz music and improvisation. He has recently completed a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance from McGill University and released a modern jazz album entitled “Threadcount”. This album explores the creative space between the purely composed and the entirely-improvised through a dialogue of contemporary classical aesthetics and the jazz tradition. Evan currently works as a freelance musician in jazz, indie rock, folk and pop scenes, working with many Montreal bands and musicians. He is currently developing a course on the foundation of time and rhythm for private instruction and undergraduate programs, as well as currently composing music for several new jazz works.

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

by John Kelman
June 29, 2017

TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 23-26, 2017 Amongst the most significant challenges that face any festival is, as the gray and no-hair crowd continues to age, finding ways to cultivate and grow a younger audience. But when you're a Canadian festival, another major challenge is a simple fiscal fact: most ...

Erik Hove Chamber Ensemble: Polygon

by Pascal-Denis Lussier
May 21, 2017

Vancouver-born, Montreal-based alto saxophonist/composer Erik Hove is a compelling emergent leader, already a busy sideman on the city's scene, involved in all sorts of projects and playing with many local heavyweights since proving himself with the award-winning urban jazz Soundclash project he formed while in New York, studying with Greg Osby, and revived in Montreal, eventually ...

Threadcount

By Evan Tighe

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2013