Results for "Toronto"

Nick Storring

Born: October 4, 1981

Nick Storring is a Toronto-based composer, musician, writer, and curator. His varied and idiosyncratic body of musical work spans chamber compositions to meticulously constructed recordings consisting solely of Storring’s own overdubbed instrumental performances. This output reflects his eclecticism as a listener — juxtaposing the familiar and the abstract to conjure moments of hallucinatory reminiscence.

He has worked with a number of leading artists and organizations in contemporary music including Montréal’s AKOUSMA Festival, Oxford UK’s Audiograft Festival, Késia Decoté, the Esprit Orchestra, Arraymusic, Soundstreams, Eve Egoyan, Sophia Subbayya Vastek, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Quatuor Bozzini, and Vancouver New Music. Winner of the Canadian Music Centre’s 2011 Toronto Emerging Composer Award, he also placed first in the 2008 Jeux De Temps competition for electroacoustic composition. His recorded output has also been released on celebrated experimental music imprints such as Orange Milk Records, mappa editions, Scissor Tail, Notice Recordings and Entr’acte.

Harry Bartlett

Born: January 19, 1998

Harry Bartlett is a Canadian guitarist, composer, and educator. Growing up in British Columbia, Harry’s early musical experiences were in the folk tradition which informed his honest and melodic voice in the context of jazz and improvised music. 

As a bandleader Harry has appeared in festivals and venues across Canada including Jazz YYC (Calgary, Alberta), Music Niagara (Niagara, Ontario), The Rex Hotel (Toronto, Ontario), The Brookstreet Hotel (Ottawa, Ontario), Resonance Café (Montreal, Quebec), Tangent Cafe (Vancouver, British Columbia), Herman’s Jazz Club (Victoria, British Columbia), and the Lighthouse Bistro (Nanaimo, British Columbia).

So Long Seven

Active since: June 8, 2012

So Long Seven is a delicious mix of jazz, classical, blues, folk, and music from around the world is both a funky, relentless force and an atmospheric cornucopia of sound.

Nestled in the rhythmic drive of tabla player Ravi Naimpally, Neil Hendry (guitar), William Lamoureux (violin), and Tim Posgate (banjo) create an aural space beyond boundaries. This highly skilled quartet references several global traditions including traditional musical forms of India, Europe, Africa and the many musical traditions of the Americas, in a unique and cohesive cultural bridge.

So Long Seven has performed with Canada’s top global music venue, Small World Music, and plays concerts and clubs across the country. From a tour of Vancouver Island, appearances at Victoria Jazz Festival, Ontario’s Hillside Music Festival, and Sunfest, the band is a national force. The band has also performed internationally with multiple concerts across Europe.

Jay Reed

Born: August 14, 1976

Short History:

Piano > 1980 | Guitar > 1987 | Gigs > 1992 | Music College > 1995 | Tours > 1997

​Influences:

​Led Zeppelin | Oscar Peterson | John Scofield | Lenny Breau | Elvin Jones | Glenn Gould | Barney Kessel | Charlie Hunter | Beastie Boys | Woody Shaw |  John Coltrane | The Beatles | Mel Lewis/Thad Jones | Pat Martino | Keith Jarrett | McCoy Tyner | Bill Frisell | Jim Hall | Jerry Reed | Pat Metheny | Dave Holland | Ed Bickert | Larry Young | Wayne Krantz | Derek Trucks | Kenny Wheeler | Charlie Parker | John Abercrombie | Etc. | Etc. | Etc.

Ben Bishop

Born: June 2, 1977

Way North

Way North is a cross-border mash-up of North American artists born out of the joy of playing together. Formed in Brooklyn in 2014 by three Canadians and a New Yorker, the band features saxophonist Petr Cancura (Down Home - JUNO nominee), trumpeter Rebecca Hennessy (2018 Toronto Emerging Jazz Artist/Women’s Blues Revue bandleader), bassist Michael Herring (Peripheral Vision - JUNO nominee) and American drummer Richie Barshay (Herbie Hancock/Chick Corea/Esperanza Spalding). The quartet brings together four composers who love to explore folk and world music with a backbone in jazz improvisation

Queen Kong

Queen Kong is an exploration of music inspired by the Radical Jewish Culture movement in New York founded by pioneer John Zorn. Led by Toronto drummer, vocalist and composer, Lorie Wolf, Queen Kong seamlessly blends Ashkenazi Jewish idiom with jazz, free improv, rock and punk to explore new sounds and ideas. Queen Kong features Toronto's top young jazz and world music performers, improvisers, movers and shakers;

Groove Town: Buffalo Jazz And Its Legacy - Historical Insights

by Barbara Ina Frenz
April 5, 2022

From early on, Buffalo attracted musicians as a place to live and pursue their artistic endeavors—and they were excellent ones: Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Pete Johnson, and Stuff Smith. Dodo Greene, two masters of polyrhythm, Frankie Dunlop and Clarence Becton, as well as pianist and bassist Wade Legge grew up here. Two distinctive voices on ...

Toronto Guitarist-Composer James Brown Returns To Recording After Decade-Plus Break On "Song Within The Story," Due March 18 On NGP Records

February 19, 2022

Guitarist-composer James Brown returns from a 13-year recording hiatus with the fetching Song Within the Story, set for a March 18 release on NGP Records. Brown’s fourth album, and his first since 2009’s Sevendaze, finds him helming his Toronto-based working trio featuring bassist Clark Johnston and drummer Anthony Michelli. Respected tenor saxophonist Mike Murley joins the ...

James Brown - Guitar

James Brown (Guitarist, Composer, Educator) is one of Canada’s most talented and versatile musicians. He has preformed and recorded with many leading artists and ensembles and has recorded three critically acclaimed CD’s of original music. His 2009 recording, “Sevendaze” features Don Thompson, Quinsin Nachoff, Jim Vivian, and Anthony Michelli. Other recordings have featured Andrew Downing, Ernie Tollar, John Obercian and Christopher Lee. James has also performed with The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (with Eric Idol), Toronto Philharmonia, Sound Streams Canada (with The Hilliard Ensemble), Art of Time Ensemble and CanStage