8 results for tag: Sax
Aretha Tillotson is a JUNO-nominated bassist, band leader, composer, and faculty member at MacEwan University, where she teaches bass and theory. Her debut album, Introducing Aretha Tillotson, won a 2024 Western Canadian Music Award for Jazz Artist of the Year. This concert features her second album, Kinda Out West, which ...
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The Gerard Weber Group perform the music of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, as well as original works for jazz sextet. With extensive training as a concert
saxophonist and performer, Weber contributes a refreshing, polished sound to the jazz quintet setting as he and his bandmates explore the soundscape of electronic effects. The ...
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Pianist and composer Yves Léveillé is a passionate and intelligent creator of new music. A recipient of the André Gagnon Prize, Yves is recognized for his compositions, arrangements, and for numerous musical collaborations with leading jazz musicians, singers, songwriters, actors, and directors. He is also known for ...
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Is there a better way to start your weekend off than by dancing and/or listening to the swinging sounds of the Stone Frigate Big Band? You’ll hear the instrumental big band hits of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller, as well as the classic standards of the American Song Book brought to life by honey-voiced vocalist ...
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With influences ranging from Miles Davis to the Carpenters to J Dilla, the Worst Pop Band Ever is a Toronto based group that has been entertaining audiences from NYC to Taipei since 2005. Individually - Chris Gale (
sax), Adrean Farrugia (keys), Dafydd Hughes (keys), Drew Birston (bass), and Tim Shia (drums) - have had the ...
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The multi-award winning vocalist, pianist, songwriter and CBC national radio host Laila Biali is thrilled to debut her brand new tribute project, Joni Mitchell & the Canadian Songbook – amemorable evening filled with reimagined covers of our country's musical icons. Audiences will be treated to fresh takes on Leonard ...
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The Gerard Weber Group will play an evening of compositions focused on the music of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, as well as original works for jazz quintet. With extensive training as a concert
saxophonist and performer, Weber contributes a refreshing, polished soundto the jazz quintet setting as he and his bandmates explore the ...
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Randy Woods is a decades-long fixture of the Western Canadian music scene with a resume as long as a tall orangutan’s arm. His impeccable ear for music is matched by his genuine love of writing and performing with his band. Randy’s latest album, Soul Hammer, is a mix of funk, reggae, rock n roll, and R&B. Despite these ...
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