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John Pittman

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Featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's mini series "One to Watch", Toronto-based trumpeter/composer/educator John Pittman is in high demand as both a soloist and lead player on the jazz, commercial and salsa scenes because of his big sound, high energy and melodicism.. His playing has been described as having a “wide dynamic and emotional range" consisting of ideas that are “very unique” even when performing within more traditional contexts. Pittman is the winner of several arts grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Manitoba Arts Council as well as the 2006 -2007 Rayburn Wright Scholar and the 2007 Schirmer Prize winner for an outstanding performance major at the prestigious Eastman School of Music. In Toronto, Pittman is featured on a regular basis as a member of The Heavyweights Brass Band, The Toronto Jazz Orchestra, The Lula All-Stars, Conjunto Lacalu, The Yani Borrell Orchestra, and The Chris Hunt Tentet

Album

The Toronto Project

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: West Toronto Ode; Non-Sequitur; Spadina; Finding Home; Inside the Toy Factory; Interweave; The Commuter; Transit.

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West Toronto Ode

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Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:12

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Kinship

Label: Slammin' Media
Released: 2018
Track listing: Ties That Bind; For Siobhan (shi-vawn); Homio-stasis; Moray Crossing; Where Is The Love?; Reminiscing; As; Home.

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This City

Label: Slammin' Media
Released: 2018

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Moray Crossing

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Label: Slammin' Media
Released: 2018
Duration: 04:54

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Article: Album Review

John Pittman: Kinship

Read "Kinship" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The ineluctable charms of John Pittman's music may very well be connected to the sense of fellow feeling he projects on this, his debut album. For in these eight songs, the Canadian trumpeter promotes a sense of togetherness and unity that cuts not only to the title at hand, but also to the very core of ...

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Article: Album Review

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Suite Messiah / Steppin' Out

Read "Suite Messiah / Steppin' Out" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Suite Messiah, recorded in 2012 and 2014, is the third and most recent album produced by the excellent Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra from central Canada, while Steppin' Out was recorded in 2007 to mark the orchestra's tenth anniversary. Whereas Suite Messiah is altogether seasonal, Steppin' Out salutes the Great American Songbook by renovating a dozen of its ...

Album

Brasstronomical

Label: Slammin' Media
Released: 2014


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