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Jay Danley

Canadian recording artist Jay Danley is a world-class session musician who contributed instrumentally to multiple Juno award-nominated records (Hilario Duran) and is the featured guitarist on the Juno award-winning (Julian Fauth), blues album of the year release.   He has performed with a multitude of legendary musicians from around the world. His coveted tenure with British–Canadian jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and composer Peter Appleyard is a memorable chapter is in his storied career, along with performances with primary members of Buena Vista Social Club and Salsa star Oscar D'León, to name a few.   Danley is recognized as one of Canada’s leading Jazz and Latin multi-instrumentalist musicians/composers, who as band leader delivered many memorable performances, at the highly acclaimed “Beaches International Jazz Festival,” performed at Toronto’s legendary Massey Hall and graced the stage at the “Barbados Jazz Festival.”   Known as the creator of his own compelling style of “Ethiojazz,” Jay was selected by the “Ontario Arts Council,” in a rigorous juried competition, to receive funds to create his current album release titled "Ethiojazz Volume 1." The album contains memorable melodies, themes and incredible performances, showcasing tracks that flow from high energy dance music to sweet ballads

Rotman's Hat Shop

By JAY DANLEY

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: By the Light of the Silvery Moon; Rotman's Hat Shop; Sweet Spot; The Very Thought of You; I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket; It Ain't No Good for You; Bird of Paradise; The Spider; Turn Round is Fair Play; My Man is Such a Handyman.

The Hogtown Syncopators: Rotman's Hat Shop

By MARTIN MCFIE

For 75 years, Rotman's hat shop on Spadina Avenue in Toronto was the place for the Jewish community and others still wearing hats to buy a fedora, a beret, almost any kind of hat. More than that, it was the story of one man's life; David Rotman lived and worked there, every day fighting a forlorn ...

Ethio Jazz Volume One

By JAY DANLEY

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Aboota; Clean Water And A bag Of Rice; D.A.R.E.; An Emerald At The Bottom Of The Ocean; Getachew; Green And Gold; Mulatu; Sundial; The Marble Orchard; The Solace Of The Beating Heart; Waking Dream.

Jay Danley: Ethio Jazz Volume One

By ANYA WASSENBERG

Complex rhythms and relentless grooves are what set music from the so-called golden era of Ethiopian jazz apart, and it's that essential and even hypnotic energy that guitarist and composer Jay Danley captures in Ethio Jazz Volume One. Arguably the most important--certainly the most recognizable--element of classic Ethiopian jazz is its bass-heavy groove patterns. ...

Jay Danley: Ethio Jazz Volume One

By GENO THACKARA

The roots of Ethio-jazz may date back to the '50s, but Jay Danley and crew show that it's too fresh and funky to be chained to any era--the grooves are slick, the bass catchy, the brisk rhythms expertly woven like the strands of a rope, and the cast is clearly having a good time. The Canadian ...

Clean Water And A Bag Of Rice

Album: Ethio Jazz Volume One
By JAY DANLEY
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Duration: 4:10

Jay Danley Ethiojazz Project EP

By JAY DANLEY

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2012