Results for "Victoria"

Jets Overhead

Born: December 20, 1999

Our band lives on a massive island that is pigment green with sharp grey mountains moving slowly and peninsula fingers stretching out and snagging the sea. The people in the band are all different heights and all have very different tastes in music and very different ways of expressing emotion or thinking about art. We started making noises in a concrete basement on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in Victoria, Canada six years ago, and we had a lot of conversations with each other through many songs. Some of these conversations were long and sad and unsure of what they were about. Some of them were many voices talking at once but understanding each other perfectly and saying the same thing in different, unconscious ways; and after this type of conversation we would quietly get into our cars and drive back across the tracks and feel a beautiful buzzing in our heads. We took a bunch of songs and recorded them in 2006 with Neil Osborne

Noah Becker

Born: August 19, 1970

Noah Becker is an alto sax player. His albums have featured George Colligan, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Josh Dixon, David Ephross, Brad Turner, Terry Deane, Brent Jarvis, Graham Villette, Kosma Busheikin and more. Noah's recordings are available on Spotify and Apple music. Noah's recrnt album "Mode For Noah" was top 10 most added on the US Jazzweek radio charts.

Peter Mosley

Born: February 17, 1951

I've been a drummer most of my life. Having studied with some of the greats of rudimental and pipe band drumming, I consider the rudimental art my home base. I have instructed several national championship drum lines, played in a national championship corps and won numerous individual championship titles. Currently, I am a member of CADRE, play with the DOCA Ensemble and the CanGas Ensemble. I have played drums and percussion professionally for over 30 years and have toured and performed all over the world. Still love it!

Adonis Puentes

Born: March 29, 1974

Adonis Puentes has the gift to see both the past and the present of Cuban music. And,on Vida, his solo debut, he shows that he is uniquely qualified to straddle the generations, embodying a contemporary vision of a true Cuban Sonora. Such a gift cannot be acquired or cultured, you have to been born with it, as was Adonis and his fraternal twin brother, Alexis on March 29th, 1974 in Havana, Cuba, sons of guitar player and instructor, Valentin Puentes. The boys grew up 45 miles southwest of old Havana in Artemisa, literally across the street from the small town's cultural centre.The musical traditions of Cuba were a daily occurrence at the centre

Barbara Blair

“Music is my life. My voice is my soul. It’s all and everything I am.” Vocalist, educator, and jazz messenger Barbara Blair counts herself among the fortunate few who spend their life following their passion. With a deep, rich voice, Barbara’s interpretive approach comes from the giants and innovators of mainstream jazz including Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Carmen McRae. Following a career in the classical music scene, Barbara returned to her first love • jazz • studying with luminaries Kurt Elling, Ellis Marsalis, Sheila Jordan, Paul Horn, Nancy King and Jay Clayton. Nearly two decades of performing and touring add polish and depth to her performances. Barbara’s education program The School of Cool • An Introduction to Jazz has played to more than 30,000 students in primary and secondary schools

Karel Roessingh

Born: December 22, 1952

Karel Roessingh is a composer, arranger, producer and musician who has written scores for over five hundred television episodes, and many award-winning films, documentaries, and promotional videos.  He has recorded and produced more than fifteen of his own CDs, including several for the Canadian Naturescapes series distributed world-wide, two jazz trio CDs and many solo piano CDs.  His latest solo project, Birdsong in the Parkade, was recorded with a Steinway grand piano in a Victoria parkade, with original music based on birdsongs collected across Canada.  He has performed with symphony orchestras and rock, jazz, folk, show and country bands throughout the world.  He’s recently recorded with Edie Daponte, Garnett Betts, Maureen Washington and many others

Jan Randall

Born: July 26, 1952

Classical, jazz, blues, and pop music have all been part of Jan’s life since he began playing by ear at the age of three. His education includes a degree in Theory and Composition from the University of Alberta, advanced courses in theory and orchestration, and jazz studies at Grant MacEwan and North Texas State University. Mr. Randall’s classical works include A Midsummer Night’s Ice Dream (1991) which is possibly the first ballet composed for figure skaters. CREDITS With over 800 film and television credits for CBC, NFB, the Discovery Channel and ACCESS TV, in 2001 he was Composer and Music Director for the IAFF World Championships Ceremonies that was broadcast to an estimated live audience of 4 billion people and featured original works performed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and a 1000 voice choir

Canadian Jazz Singer Edie Daponte Releases Second Studio Album "Young At Heart"

December 8, 2015

After 2012’s Love Bossa, a latin-styled collection sung mainly in Brazilian Portuguese, Edie Daponte returns this year with Young at Heart, her second studio album. A collection of Edie’s own original material alongside some of her and her fans' favourite standards, this new album showcases the strength of Edie’s beautiful and versatile voice. Young at Heart ...

Victoria

By Jan Bang

Label: Megafon
Released: 2013

...Live At The Kitano

By Dick Hyman

Label: Victoria
Released: 2013
Track listing: The Blue Room; Gone With The Wind; I Mean You!; Yellow Dog Blues; Lucky To Be Me; The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise; Ugly Beauty; My Ship; Lover, Come Back To Me/Quicksilver.