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Jacob Wutzke
Jacob Wutzke is a Montréal/Toronto based drummer, bandleader, author, composer and music educator. Noted for his exceptional technique, creativity and ability to listen and improvise in the moment, he has become an in-demand sideman in the jazz and creative music scenes and continues to compose and perform music regularly.
A staple of the Canadian music scene, he has performed and recorded with Caity Gyorgy, Allison Au, Nick Maclean Quartet, Ira Coleman, Jocelyn Gould, Pat LaBarbera, Sam Kirmayer, Brownman Ali and more. In 2022, Jacob organized a tribute group to the music of Tony Williams which performed and recorded under the direction of Williams' longtime bass player Ira Coleman. He has also self-published 3 drum method books to develop technique and phrasing that have become essential practice tools for drummers around the world.
A part of the 2019 Graduating Class of Humber College's Bachelor of Music program, as well as the 2022 Graduating Class of McGill University's Jazz Performance Master's Degree, Jacob is well-established in his local music scenes, as well as across Canada on National Tours of jazz clubs and jazz festivals. He is also a committed music educator and author, teaching private lessons and giving workshops at high schools and universities across Canada. He has been seen performing coast to coast at venues and festivals in Canada including the TD Edmonton Jazz Festival, The Rex Hotel (Toronto), Markham Jazz Festival, JazzFM Jazz Safari, JazzYYC Summer Festival, Jazz Bistro (Toronto), Steel City Jazz Festival, West End Cultural Centre (Winnipeg), the Banff Springs Hotel, and the TD Toronto Jazz Festival to name a few. He is also a committed music educator and teaches a full roster of students from all ages and levels of experience locally across Canada and internationally online.
The Jacob Wutzke Quartet's debut full-length album is releasing in early 2023 with singles starting in May 2022.
Jacob proudly plays and endorses Pergamon Cymbals.
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Nick Maclean Quartet feat. Brownman Ali: Convergence
by Glenn Astarita
The Nick Maclean Quartet is a highly respected Canadian outfit, here featuring upper-echelon trumpeter Brownman Ali, marked by a deep reverence for the past and a bold leap into the future. Central to this album's appeal are its original compositions, which are not merely exercises in style but profound statements of artistic identity. These pieces are deeply influenced by the innovative spirit of Herbie Hancock's work in the 1960s, among other Blue Note Records artists during this fertile period for ...
read moreMathieu Soucy: Recollecting
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Mathieu Soucy, a 2019 graduate of Canada's McGill University, in Montreal, hits the ground running with a splendid debut album, Recollecting, on which he guides a talented quartet of young musicians through seven of his engaging compositions plus Thelonious Monk's Reflections" and the well-traveled Rodgers and Hart standard, Where or When" (sung by Humber College alum Caity Gyorgy). Gyorgy is heard on one other number, Thinker and a Fool," a bright samba whose cryptic lyric is ...
read moreDennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra: Windward Bound
by Jack Bowers
Windward Bound, the debut recording by the Toronto-based Dennis Kwok Jazz Orchestra, consists of a six-part suite for jazz orchestra and multiple woodwind soloist." It is perhaps more than coincidental that Kwok, who wrote and arranged the sequence of tone poems based in part on his teen-age memories of sailing on Lake Ontario, also plays alto, tenor, soprano and baritone saxophones, oboe, clarinet, flute, alto flute, piccolo and bass clarinet. In other words, multiple woodwinds. Versatile as ...
read morePrimary Instrument
Drums
Location
Montreal
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Music
Dolphin Dance
From: ConvergenceBy Jacob Wutzke
Road Warrior
From: Road Warrior (single)By Jacob Wutzke
Thinker and a Fool
From: RecollectingBy Jacob Wutzke
Lennie's Changes
From: RecollectingBy Jacob Wutzke
Ascension
From: AscensionBy Jacob Wutzke
Part III. A Flat Boat is a Fast Boat
From: Windward BoundBy Jacob Wutzke
Part VI. Red Right Returning
From: Windward BoundBy Jacob Wutzke
Part V. Elegy
From: Windward BoundBy Jacob Wutzke
Windward Bound
From: Windward BoundBy Jacob Wutzke
Windward Bound
From: Windward BoundBy Jacob Wutzke