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Morgan Childs
Morgan Childs is a drummer living in Toronto, Ontario. Originally hailing from Invermere, BC, in that province’s mountainous East Kootenay region, Morgan spent 10 years on the Vancouver music scene before making the move to Toronto in the fall of 2009. During that time, Morgan has built an international career as a performer and educator with some of the world’s finest musicians. Morgan is highly regarded among his peers for his deep swing feel, sensitivity, versatility and musicality, as well as his reverence for jazz history and...
read moreKirk MacDonald
Kirk MacDonald (tenor and alto saxophonist, flutist, piccolo) was born October 2, 1959 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He started to play the saxophone at the age of 10, after entering a high school music program to study saxophones, clarinet, flute, music theory and composition, graduating in 1977. MacDonald moved to Toronto to attend Humber College when he was 17. He studied saxophone privately with Don Palmer, Pat LaBarbera Lee Konitz, and George Coleman, and composition with Garry Dial. MacDonald has worked with some of the finest musicians in...
read moreArnie Chycoski
Arnie Chycoski (trumpet) was born May 7, 1936 in New Westminister, British Columbia. Called by celebrated band-leader Rob McConnell, “One of the top three lead trumpet players on the planet”. Arnie passed away Sept. 10, 2008 near Olympia Washington. In the 1950’s Arnie was appearing at a jazz club in Victoria called The Scene. At that time Arnie was an ambitious young trumpet player who was much more interested in improvising than being a lead trumpet player. He idolized Clifford Brown. Soon after that Arnie made his way to Westlake College...
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Steve McDade (trumpet/flugelhorn) was born in Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow, Scotland in 1962. His family moved to Burlington, Ontario, Canada, when Steve was 4 years old. McDade began playing the trumpet at the age of 12 with the Burlington Teen Tour Band, touring Europe and North America to participate in band competitions, and at just 14 was featured as a soloist at Hamilton Place in Hamilton, Ontario. He played professionally throughout the area after that, and entered the Humber College Jazz Studies program when he was 18 years old. McDade...
read moreAdrean Farrugia
Award winning pianist and composer Adrean Farrugia is one of Canada’s most distinct voices on the piano. Since the late 1990s Adrean has been in high demand as a freelance performer and educator. Keeping a busy touring schedule, mainly as a sideman, Adrean has toured extensively across Canada and the United States as well as in venues across Europe, Australia, the UK, Israel and in Japan. Adrean has performed/recorded with some of jazz’s greatest and most diverse artists including: Ernie Watts, Adam Nussbaum, Larry Carlton, Curtis Fuller, Tom...
read moreMike Murley
Mike Murley (tenor and soprano saxophonist) was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1961. Mike Murley has emerged as one of the country’s finest jazz artists since moving to Toronto from his native Nova Scotia in 1981. His critically-acclaimed work as a leader and a sideman has placed him at the forefront of Canada’s jazz scene for more than a decade. Since winning the Juno award in 1991 for his Two Sides album, Murley has appeared on seven other Juno award-winning recordings including four in the last five years. More recently Murley was...
read moreKelly Jefferson
Kelly Jefferson (saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, piccolo-player) was born March 4, 1970 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He holds a a Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University in Montreal, and a Master’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. He serves on the faculty of York University in Toronto, and previously taught at Humber College, also in Toronto, and McGill University. He has adjudicated at music festivals across the country, and given numerous workshops throughout Canada and the United States. He has...
read moreJohn MacLeod
John MacLeod (trumpet, flugelhorn, composer, arranger, bandleader) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1955. His impeccable credentials in nearly every aspect of the music industry have been firmly established in a distinguished career spanning over three decades on the Canadian music scene as a player, composer, arranger, and conductor. As a jazz artist, he has had the opportunity to perform with many of the music’s legends as well as some of the leading names in the world today. He has worked with every major figure on the Toronto...
read moreCory Weeds
Cory Weeds (saxophonist) has been a professional musician for the better part of 15 years. As a member of popular Vancouver band People Playing Music he toured Canada, the United States and Europe and recorded was a key part in the success of the band’s Sette CD released in 1997. In 1998 he formed his instrumental band CRASH that he co-led with tenor saxophonist Jerry Cook. The band released its first CD entitled Crash in 1998 and toured Canada the same year playing at the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival. The band went back into the...
read moreMark Eisenman
Mark Eisenman (pianist) was born November 9, 1955 in New York City, New York, U.S.A. Born in New York City but based in Toronto since 1972, Mark started studying the piano with his father. By the age of eighteen he had resolved that he would be pursuing the piano as a career interest. He entered into the music program at York University and after a short time discovered jazz music. With his introduction to this idiom his musical interest peaked. Under the tutelage of John Gittins and others, Mark ultimately took a degree in Fine Arts, and as...
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