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Drummer Barry Elmes is a fixture around the Toronto jazz picture because the early 1980’s. Like a innovator, his playing shows a pastime in bop and pre-bop colleges of drumming. His are a sideman though, documenting with performers as varied as Kenny Wheeler and Dizzy Gillespie, shows him to become an achieved drummer in lots of musical designs. Since shifting to Toronto in 1973, Elmes offers performed and documented with, and the like, Tommy Flanagan, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Don Thompson, Ed Bickert, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gilliespie, as well as the Moe Koffman Quintet, in addition to co-leading the group Period Warp with bassist Alan Henderson. Barry was called “Jazz Musician of the entire year” by Jazz Statement both in 1993 and 1994, in addition to “Drummer of the entire year” for 1994 through 1996.
