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Patrick Smith

Patrick Smith is a saxophonist, and educator based in Toronto, Canada. He has established himself as an in demand performer and has extensively toured Canada, the US and Europe with a number of musical acts. He is also a composer of music who leads a number of his own bands. Currently, he is working towards the release of an EP with his trio featuring Chris Banks (bass) and Lowell Whitty (drums).

Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School: Aftermath

by Jack Bowers
December 12, 2019

Aftermath is the second album by composer / arranger / tenor saxophonist Chelsea McBride's Toronto-based Socialist Night School. It's a bright-eyed ensemble, comprised for the most part of young musicians who are fully on board with McBride's contemporary approach to big-band jazz (think Muhal Richard Abrams, Julius Hemphill, Darcy James Argue or Charles Mingus with a ...

University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Ruby Suite

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2017

"The Music of Kenny Wheeler Featuring Norma Winstone and Dave Liebman" is the subtext of this new (March 2016) recording by the first-rate University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra, more than half of which is devoted to Wheeler's picturesque “Sweet Ruby Suite," whose genesis and rationale aren't made clear, as there are no liner notes.

Iowa Duets

By Patrick Smith

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011