When:
March 11, 2016 @ 8:30 pm – 11:30 pm
2016-03-11T20:30:00-10:00
2016-03-11T23:30:00-10:00
Cost:
$20
“…Tosoff shows great promise: as a composer, leader, and performer… Her quartet swings with a genuine spirit, and she interprets clearly with a crisp motion. .. she brings the piano into full view through her calm demeanor and complete confidence.” – Jim Santella, Cadence Magazine
“This group exemplifies so many of the great and positive things that young jazz musicians have going for them; compositional talent, instrumental talent, and devotion to the music and one another.” – Katie Malloch, CBC Radio
Amanda Tosoff is a B.C.-raised Toronto-based pianist, composer, and bandleader, with five albums to her credit. Along her fascinating career path, Amanda has performed with such internationally recognized artists as Ingrid Jensen, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Phil Dwyer, Christine Jensen, Brad Turner, Kelly Jefferson, and Jodi Proznick. She has also opened for jazz legends Bobby Hutcherson, Renee Rosnes, Oliver Jones, and Brazilian singer Luciana Souza, and her groups have recorded for CBC Radio programs Hot Air, Tonic, Jazz Beat, and Espace Musique’s series, Portraits Jazz.
With her latest project – Words – Amanda takes an adventurous leap beyond the confines of conventional jazz. She has taken poems and lyrics that possess a personal resonance for her and framed them in original new compositions that utilize vocals for the first time. The result is an eclectic collection that incorporates elements of pop, art song, classical, folk and jazz.
This concert will include repertoire from Amanda’s latest release Words, which features poems by award-winning Canadian poets Tim Bowling, Laura Lush, and Carole Glasser Langille, and songwriters Melissa Mansfield, and Lloyd and Ted Tosoff. The program will also include Amanda’s compositions and arrangements of poetry by William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Lee Masters, Pablo Neruda, and Rumi – as well as contemporary artists like Joni Mitchell and Yo Yo Ma.
Felicity Williams – Voice
Alex Goodman – Guitar
Amanda Tosoff – Piano
Jon Maharaj – Bass
Morgan Childs – Drums
Drew Jureka – Violin
Andrew Downing – Cello
Alex Goodman – Guitar
Amanda Tosoff – Piano
Jon Maharaj – Bass
Morgan Childs – Drums
Drew Jureka – Violin
Andrew Downing – Cello
This cut features vocalist Felicity Williams (Bahamas, Broken Social Scene) singing William Woodsworth’s Daffodils.
