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Andrew Littleford

Andrew is an active member of the Winnipeg music scene and is gaining attention and recognition across Canada as an accomplished multi-genre trumpet performer and educator based out of Winnipeg. He shares his warm, lyrical sound and melodic sensibilities within the musical genres of jazz, funk, r&b and pop music. Born and raised in Vancouver, BC, Andrew moved to Winnipeg, MB in 2010 after completing his Bachelor Degree in Jazz Performance from Brandon University, and Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA.

His diverse musical abilities makes him one of the most sought after trumpet players on Winnipeg's vibrant music scene. Aside from leading the Andrew Littleford Quintet where he composes and plays his own music, he is a founding member of the Dirty Catfish Brass Band, and is also involved with the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Ron Paley Big Band, Hot & Dirty Dance Party, Winnipeg Jazz Collective, “B’” Side Champs, PRZM, Sunny Roseland, and can be heard on a variety of albums with other Manitoba artists.

He will be releasing his debut full length album “Far As The Eye Can See” on October 23, 2022 on all streaming platforms. Physical copies will be available at the album release show on Oct 23. This album exhibits many of his original compositions along with an arrangement of a standard and features some of Manitoba’s best jazz musicians.

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Album Review

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Voices: A Musical Heritage

Read "Voices: A Musical Heritage" reviewed by Jack Bowers


No matter where in the world one looks, there is musical history worth exploring and celebrating--which is what the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra sets out to affirm on its sixth album, Voices: A Musical Heritage. Winnipeg is the capital of Canada's Manitoba Province, and Voices pays tribute to the area's rich and expansive musical fabric via a series of eight compositions designed to exemplify some of Manitoba's far-flung heritage: First Nations, Metis, Ukrainian, Jewish, Chilean, Brazilian, Nigerian and Icelandic.

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Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Twisting Ways

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For the better part of its latest recording, Twisting Ways, Canada's Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra may as well scrub the word “Jazz" from its name, as the music mostly bears scant resemblance to that time-honored genre. The overall mood may best be described as funereal, epitomizing themes of a mostly exploratory nature, interrupted all too seldom by passages that are more akin to the essence of traditional jazz. As the composers, David Braid and Philippe Cote, are well-known and well-respected in ...

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Derrick Gardner & The Big dig! Band: Still I Rise

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Trumpeter Derrick Gardner, a Chicagoan who has performed around the world with a who's who of jazz luminaries from Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Foster to Nancy Wilson, Tony Bennett and Harry Connick Jr., to name only a few, traveled to Winnipeg, Canada, to assemble and record his Big Dig! Band, several sizes removed from Gardner's sextet, The Jazz Prophets, a working group since it was formed in New York City in 1991. Gardner not only shines as trumpet ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Voices: A Musical...

Self Produced
2022

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Still I Rise

Impact Jazz
2020

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Oriri

From: Voices: A Musical Heritage
By Andrew Littleford

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