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Dave Mossing
Trumpeter Dave Mossing has been an active member of Montreal’s jazz community for over 30 years. He has performed, recorded and travelled with many of the city’s most renowned musicians and groups including Renee Lee, Oliver Jones, Karen Young, the Juno award winning Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra, Joe Sullivan Big Band and the Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal just to name a few. Homesteaders is Mossing’s debut record as a leader, and he is pleased to be partnered with Bent River Records for this project
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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra: Harbour
by Scott Lichtman
There's something special about Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra's Harbour. Foremost, the album builds on Jensen's acknowledged talent as master composer for over 25 years. She writes songs that stimulate the emotions as well as the intellect, and she arranges them using rich, cross-instrumental blends and fresh, punctuated motifs. While Jensen already has won JUNO awards in Canada for best jazz album, Harbour raises the bar. That is because it is inspired by deeply personal themes and because her ...
Continue ReadingThe Saskatchewan All Star Big Band: Saskatchewan Suite
by Jack Bowers
On Saskatchewan Suite, composer/arranger Fred Stride and the twenty-member Saskatchewan All Star Big Band have combined to paint a luminous and colorful portrait of that western Canadian province, canvassing 150 years of its history in eight picturesque movements that describe in musical terms the land itself, its indigenous peoples, newcomers from Europe and elsewhere, its recognition in 1905 as a province, the importance of various sports to Saskatchewan's inhabitants, and the legacy of jazz as an essential part of its ...
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September 1905
From: Saskatchewan SuiteBy Dave Mossing
