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Instrument: Saxophone, baritone
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Shirantha Beddage
Two-time JUNO-nominated musician Shirantha Beddage (“Shurr-ANN-tha BED-da-gay”) is a baritone saxophonist, composer and educator from Toronto, Canada. His original music combines hard bop and modern jazz to create a sound that is both accessible and sophisticated. He has released three critically-acclaimed albums as a leader: Roots and Branches, Identity (2013 JUNO nominee) and Momentum (2017 JUNO nominee). As a sideman, he has been featured on recordings with the Order of Canada Band, Suzie Arioli, Laila Biali, Nancy Walker, Mike Downes and many others. His compositional skills have won him accolades such as the Montreal Jazz Festival Galaxie Rising Star Award, recognitions at the Canadian Songwriting Competition, and placements in the Emmy-winning TV series “Fargo”. Shirantha currently serves as a full-time professor in the Humber College Bachelor of Music program, where he also hosts the “Staff Lounge” Teaching and Learning podcast
Put It There
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2025
Track listing: Abraca-Pocus; Baritone Boogaloo; Blues for Owl; Turrentrane; For Matt and Kate;
Yamp; Don't Call Me Victor; Put It There; Old-Soul - for Emmett.
BARI-ed Alive: Put It There
by Pierre Giroux
In an era teeming with standard horn sections and predictable lineups, BARI-ed Alive's Put It There stands out as a bold and sonorous declaration of individuality. The sextet's audacious choice to feature three baritone saxophones--masterfully played by Alex Dean, Shirantha Beddage, and Chris Gale--creates a sound that is muscular, bottom-heavy, and perhaps surprisingly buoyant. Rounded out ...
Carn Davidson 9: Reverence
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 ...
Reverence
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Fire (For Oatts); Groove (For Joshua); If Not Now, Then When?; Saúde; Wonderment (for C.J.); Just Because; Florencio; Joy
(For Kenny).
Magpie
By Sarah Jerrom
Label: TPR Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Part I: The Road; Part II: For Joy; Part III: Circling Feathers; Part IV: The White Elk; Part V: Nest Predator; Part VI: Carrion; Part VII: The Mountain Cries; Part VIII: Crystallization (For R.)
Fire (For Oatts)
Album: Reverence
By Carn Davidson 9
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:55
Part 1: The Road
Album: Magpie
By Sarah Jerrom
Label: TPR Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 09:27
The Composers Collective Big Band: The Toronto Project
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 ...
The History of Us
Label: Three Pines
Released: 2021
Track listing: Finding Home Suite (A New Life/A Mother’s Song/Home); Goodbye Old Friend; Suite 1985
(The Epitaph—for Mom/Swept Out to Sea—for Dad/Wisely If Sincerely).
