Results for "Bill McBirnie"

Bill McBirnie

Bill McBirnie is a jazz and Latin flute specialist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has studied with renowned American flutist, Samuel Baron, distinguished Canadian flutist and composer, Robert Aitken, as well as Cuban charanga legend, Richard Egues. Bill has also been solicited by no less than Sir James Galway to serve as his resident Jazz Flute Specialist at Sir James' official web site. Bill is well known for his outstanding technique. However, he is also recognized as an exceptional improviser (notably in the bebop, swing and Latin idioms) as demonstrated by his recordings as a sideman with Junior Mance, Irakere, Memo Acevedo and Emile-Claire Barlow

Reflections (for Paul Horn)

By Bill McBirnie

Label: Extreme Flute
Released: 2024
Track listing: Reflections; Wind & Sky; Masada Sunrise; Kitten & Moth; Coral Garden; Awakening; Monk's Strut; Ode to Paul.

Flutist Bill McBirnie Releases 'Reflections (for Paul Horn)'

April 9, 2024

In his most recent digital release, Reflections, flutist Bill McBirnie performs a series of entirely improvised solo vignettes on both flute and alto flute in what is a beautiful and heartfelt tribute to the strongest of his influences on the instrument, Paul Horn. Bill is arguably the ideal candidate for such a tribute, not only because ...

Sparkbird

By Emilie-Claire Barlow

Label: Empress Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Over the Rainbow; Fais comme l’oiseau; Skylark; Where Will I Be?; Little Jazz Bird; Bird of Beauty; Pajaros de Barro.

Take Five with Composer Rodrigo Simoes

by AAJ Staff
April 21, 2023

Meet Rodrigo Simoes Rodrigo Simões is a composer with a distinctive style that oscillates between Brazilian music and jazz improvisation. His international career has taken him through China, Australia, South Korea, Paraguay and the United States, in addition to his native country--Brazil--and his adopted country--Canada. The guitarist has already collaborated with great artists in Brazil (Elza ...

Bird of Beauty

March 14, 2023

Album: Sparkbird
By Emilie-Claire Barlow
Label: Empress Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:55

Bill McBirnie: Forever

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 3, 2022

Canada's Bill McBirnie is known around the world for his flute prowess in Latin, pop, jazz and classical music settings. For example, he was personally recruited by Sir James Galway to serve as Resident Jazz Flute Specialist on Galway's official website. McBirnie published The Technique and Theory of Improvisation: A practical guide for flutists, doublers and ...

Monsters from the Jazzlab

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 17, 2022

Rodrigo Almonte Distancia Odradek Records 2021 “Every piece of music on Distancia is an honest representation of a pilgrimage of different distances that I had to walk, musically and geographically speaking, in order to find inspiration and to create a representation of myself as a musical ...

Forever

By Bill McBirnie

Label: Extreme Flute
Released: 2021
Track listing: (1) Criole Blessing (Saravá Criola) - 4:36 - axé/samba-reggae (2) Song For Svetlana (Um Choro Para Svetlana) - 3:10 - choro/samba (3) This Passion (Está Paixão) - 4:38 - bossa/samba (4) It's The Time (Saber Se Amar) - 3:23 - hip hop/bossa (5) Forever (Eternamente) - 3:29 - bossa/tango (6) Dreams And Light (Canta Canção) - 4:46 - ballad/bossa Bonus Vocal Track: (7) Full Moon Blue Wolf (Lua Cheia Lobo Azul) - 3:29 - bossa/samba

Extreme Flute Releases 'Forever' by Bill McBirnie & Bruce Jones

October 17, 2021

Bill McBirnie and Bruce Jones have teamed up once again with a brand new Extreme Flute project, featuring Bill in his singular capacity as “flautist extraordinaire”, and Bruce in his multiple capacities as composer, performer and engineer. The result of their collaboration is a genuinely hypnotic, dreamy and incantatory album with a distinctly Brazilian favour that ...