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Buffalo Jump by Harry Vetro

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Album Title: Harry Vetro's Northern Ranger
T.Sound
Released: 2018

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About the Album

In 2017, as Canada celebrated 150 years of Confederation, 23-year-old Hamilton drummer Harry Vetro took to the road. He travelled coast to coast, visiting communities in Canada's six indigenous cultural areas (Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands) in an effort to connect with musicians and artists from different backgrounds, and to better understand the land's long cultural history. Northern Ranger - Vetro's debut album - tells the story of his travels. A jazz musician by training, Harry melded his own style of improvised music with folk and classical influences to create a deeply personal statement, one that speaks to the country as a whole. A recent graduate of the University of Toronto Jazz program, Vetro leads an active performing career, Past performances include the TD Toronto Jazz Festival, Ottawa Jazz Festival and Orillia Jazz Festival. Proceeds from this album will assist in starting an outreach initiative for youth with limited access to music education. The program will be titled "Northern Ranger Outreach" and Vetro will be partnering with his father, who is an educator and musician with connections in the school system.

Tracks

Northern Ranger: Leaving Goose Bay; Buffalo Jump; Sha (Shakat Tun); Gondola To Blackcomb; Blackcomb; Northern Ranger: Air Borealis; Pichogen Lake; Hawk Air; kat (Shakat Tun); Pacific Smoke; Northern Ranger; Tun (Shakat Tun).

Personnel

Harry Vetro

drums

Additional Personnel

Harry Vetro: drums; Lina Allemano: trumpet; Harrison Argatoff: saxophone; Dan Pitt: guitar; Iam McGimpsey: guitar; Noah Franche- Nolan: piano; Jacob Thompson: piano; Andrew Downing: bass, cello; Phil Albert: bass; Jessica Deutsch: violin; Anna Atkinson: violin; Aline Homzy: viola.

Reviews

Harry Vetro's Northern Ranger by Dan Bilawsky

Date featured

January 7, 2019

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