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Jason Logue

Jason Logue  is a freelance trumpet player, composer, and arranger based in Toronto.  He has performed with jazz greats  Sam Rivers, Carla Bley, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Dave Brubek, Phil Nimmons, Dave Grusin, Louis Belson, Steve Swallow, Kenny Wheeler, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Guido Basso, Jim McNeeley and Rob McConnell.

He is best known for his Lead Trumpet work with David Clayton-Thomas,  Emille-Claire Barlow, Laila Biali, Manteca, John Macleod, Kirk MacDonald, Manteca, Brian Barlow, N.O.J.O, Brian Dickinson, Mike Malone and Darcy Hepner.

As a freelance lead trumpeter, Jason has backed up artists such as Take 6, Michael MacDonald, Carvin Wynans, Diana Krall, John Pizzarelli,  Rufus Wainwright, Aretha Franklin, Daniel Lanois,  Chantal Kreviazuk, Shirley Bassey, The Funk Brothers, Johnny Mathis, Jeff Healey, Mary Wilson, Bernadette Peters, Marie Osmond, Ben Vareen, Hal Linden, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, Bobby Vinton, Little Anthony and the imperials, The Temptations, The 4 Tops, The Platters, Maureen McGovern, Robbie Lane and the Deciples, The Coasters, Martha Reeves, The Spinners, Frankie Valli, Fabian and Bobby Ridell.

Jason leads his own group, the Jason Logue Sextet (great name, eh!?) performing his original music.

Jason has also performed in the Toronto productions of the musicals Matilda, Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, Motown, If/Then, Aladdin, Dirty Dancing, Hairspray, The Last Empress, The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Rat Pack, Cinderella, Jersey Boys, The Addams Family, 9 to 5, Come Fly Away, Young Frankenstein and Hair.  As well, Jason has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa) as a guest 1st trumpet for many pops concerts.

Jason is currently on the Faculty at The University of Toronto and Mohawk College and is an adjudicator for Musicfest Canada.

 

 


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Album Review

Carn Davidson 9: Reverence

Read "Reverence" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The Carn Davidson 9 is a Toronto, Canada-based nonet co-led by trombonist William Carn and saxophonist Tara Davidson whose fourth studio album, Reverence, encompasses a pair of four-part suites, one written by Carn, the other by Davidson. What is most interesting --over and above the depth and quality of the music--is that the suites are not performed sequentially but interspersed, with the first two of Davidson's themes followed by a pair of Carn originals before alternating on the remaining four ...

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The Composers Collective Big Band: The Toronto Project

Read "The Toronto Project" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The term Composers Collective is quite often a thinly veiled phrase that signifies “experimental" or “avant-garde" jazz. Thankfully, that is far from true on the Composers Collective Big Band's irrepressible The Toronto Project, which carries the listener on a buoyant and colorful musical journey through Canada's largest city, capital of the province of Ontario and home to a number of superb jazz musicians. True, there are some moments when the Collective veers from conservative to exploratory, but ...

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Carn Davidson 9: The History of Us

Read "The History of Us" reviewed by Jack Bowers


From north of the U.S. border comes The History of Us, a warm-hearted album by the Carn Davidson 9, a Toronto-based nonet co-led by trombonist William Carn and saxophonist Tara Davidson. The album consists of a pair of three-part suites, one by Carn, the other by Davidson, separated by Carn's amiable composition, “Goodbye Old Friend," a fond salute to his late and dearly loved cat, Murphy. Carn's “Finding Home" suite, which leads things off, was inspired by ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Reverence

Self Produced
2024

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The Toronto Project

Self Produced
2023

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The History of Us

Three Pines
2021

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The Twelfth of Never

Self Produced
2020

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Murphy

Self Produced
2017

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Fire (For Oatts)

From: Reverence
By Jason Logue

West Toronto Ode

From: The Toronto Project
By Jason Logue

Illusionist

From: The Twelfth of Never
By Jason Logue

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