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Toronto native Give Stewart is really a hard-swinging tenor saxophonist steeped within the jazz tradition. Introduced to jazz by his part-time jazz guitarist dad, Stewart was raised hearing such famous saxophonists as Charlie Parker, Wardell Grey, among others. By his early teenagers, Stewart had currently found performance encounter with such …

Though no digital act bested the Orb at developing a gratifying fusion of ambient music and dub, Sub Dub came the nearest with its mixture of studio creation and live instrumentation. The quartet, which include bassist John Ward, programmer Raz Mesinai, vocalist Ursula Ward, and Give Stewart on tenor sax, …

You start with his function in Sub Dub, illbient/ambient dub composer/programmer Raz Mesinai crafted shimmering, spacious music which was one of the dreamiest — and frequently eeriest — the genre had to provide. After Sub Dub’s separation, Mesinai continuing on as Badawi, adding components of his Israeli and Middle Eastern …