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Neil Swainson worked for just two years in Victoria with Paul Horn. He used Woody Shaw often within the 1980s and in addition gigged with Adam Moody, George Coleman, and Zoot Sims. An associate of Moe Koffman’s quintet during 1978-1982, Swainson obtained his greatest popularity when he began dealing with …

Though it was usually a part-time venture (functioning maybe thirty days per year, counting an annual recording), Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass was among the finest big bands from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s. A fantastic soloist, McConnell performed valve trombone in Toronto (both in the studios and in jazz configurations) …

Mostly of the multi-instrumentalists who noises virtuosic on each particular device, Don Thompson offers made significant music efforts on vibes, bass, and piano. His uncanny capability to move perfectly from device to instrument offers produced him a appreciated sideman within the Toronto, and worldwide, jazz picture. Thompson was created in …

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 …

A high mainstream jazz drummer for many years, Terry Clarke was created in Vancouver in 1944 and performed within the Vancouver jazz picture from your early- to mid-’60s before going south to america to become listed on saxophonist John Handy’s music group aswell as the backup group for vocal pop-soul …