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JUNO-winning pianist Will Bonness has been active on the Winnipeg, Canadian and international jazz scenes for two decades. At 17, Will joined Maynard Ferguson’s Big Bop Nouveau Band for a world tour, which included performances in Europe, Thailand, and the Caribbean. He has performed at many of the major jazz festivals in Canada and the United States, as well as in the world’s most prestigious venues, with such luminaries as Jon Gordon, Avishai Cohen, Quincy Davis, Jimmy Greene, and Derrick Gardner. Locally, he can often be seen performing with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra. Will’s performance career has led him to spend substantial time in New York City, where he has played at the Blue Note, Smalls, and Dizzy’s. Aside from his performances, he maintains a full-time teaching position at the University of Manitoba, where he has taught music for the past 12 years. Will has four releases to his credit: "Subtle Fire" (2009), "Halcyon" (2016), "Change of Plans" (2020), and "Is This a Dream?" (2023).
Still Cookin' at 90: The Canada Sessions, Volume II
By Al Muirhead
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dancing on the Ceiling; My Shining Hour; Moonlight in Vermont; Corcovado; All the Things You
Are; More Than You Know; I Thought About You; What a Wonderful World.
Al Muirhead: Still Cookin' at 90: The Canada Sessions, Volume II
by Jack Bowers
"Twelve years ago," bassist Kodi Hutchinson writes in the liner notes to The Canada Sessions, Volume II, “I found myself on a bandstand with 78-year-old trumpeter Al Muirhead. I remember thinking, why has this amazing musician never recorded under his own name?" Fast forward a dozen years, to 2025, and Muirhead, still going strong at age ...
Portrait of Right Now
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Portrait of Right Now; You're No Fun at All; Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered; Jingles; You're in There Somewhere;
Can I Tell You a Secret; Io's Orbit; I Haven't Managed to Forget You; Early Bird; Spring, It Seems
Tidal Currents: East Meets West
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Inside the Wave; Crossing Lachine; Tidal Currents; Rock Skipping Under the Half Moon.
7th Ave South
By Jon Gordon
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2024
Track listing: Witness; 7th Ave South; Ponder This; Paradox; Here, There and Everywhere; Ed's Groove; Visit;
Intro; Spark; 7th Ave South (reprise).
Jon Gordon: 7th Ave South
by Jack Bowers
Some of life's moments, even when buried in the past, remain almost as fresh and memorable as today's. Such is alto saxophonist Jon Gordon's memory of his first visit to New York City's then-jazz center, Greenwich Village's 7th Avenue South, which was “the first place [he] ever heard live jazz in New York." That was in ...
Witness
Album: 7th Ave South
By Jon Gordon
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2024
Duration: 2:49
Rock Skipping Under the Half Moon
Album: Tidal Currents: East Meets West
By Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 07:41
Sonic Bouquet
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Trail Blazer; Tender Is the Night; My Foolish Heart; The Kicker; Jessica's Birthday; Spring Regardless; Last of the
Rounders; Is That So?; Napoleon's Prelude
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