Results for "Stich Wynston"

Cat Walk

March 6, 2020

Album: Crazy Time
By Shuffle Demons
Label: Stubby Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 03:47

Stich Wynston

Stich Wynston is a drummer, composer, bandleader and sideman born and based in Toronto, Canada and best known for his 40+ years as the dynamic drummer for The Shuffle Demons.  He attended York University from 1980 – 1985 where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree majoring in music including studies in jazz with John Gittens and Lorne Lofsky, South Indian classical music with Trichy Sancharan and 20th-century classical music with James Tenney. During that time period Stich was also accepted to the world-renowned Banff School of Fine Arts summer jazz program for three years running in 1982, 1983 and 1984. While at the Banff School, Stich had the good fortune of studying with and playing with Dave Holland, Dave Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Steve Coleman, John Abercrombie, Anthony Braxton, Albert Manglesdorf and Julian Priester.

Shape Shifter

By Stich Wynston

Label: Mile High Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Shape Shifter; The Alchemist; Without a Trace; The Soulful Mr. Williams; Pedacinho do Brasil; New Bamboo; 3'n 2; Incandescence; Last Call.

Scott Reeves Quintet: Shape Shifter

by Dan McClenaghan
March 26, 2009

Scott Reeves' Shape Shifter could be called a standard live mainstream affair in that the tunes are, in part, vehicles for some stretching out by the soloists. But the sound slips out of the “standard" description, with its atmosphere of adventure and edgy energy, and an approach that more than hints at the avant-garde, in a ...

Transparent Horizons

By Stich Wynston

Label: TCB Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Outward Bound; I Think This Party's Over; Spiral Nebula; Evanescence; Caboose; Automatic Entry; Intergalactic Spheres; New One.

Stich Wynston's Modern Surfaces: Transparent Horizons

by Robert R. Calder
December 20, 2005

The intro emerges as heavy bowed bass--buzzy, ominous, sustained. Suddenly there's a thunderstorm, rock drumming, electric guitar, and tenor saxophone. A synthesizer (seldom-used here) wails, but less than the guitar and saxophone, then makes bell sounds and more while the bass goes thudding and bells like a stag before things devolve into the slower, quieter space ...

Modern Surfaces

By Stich Wynston

Label: Buzz-Records
Released: 1999