When:
October 25, 2025 @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
2025-10-25T20:00:00-04:00
2025-10-25T22:30:00-04:00
Cost:
$30.00
Verse is a modern jazz quartet performing the original compositions of Canadian guitarist Avi Granite.
Granite recently moved back to his hometown Toronto after 16 years on the New York City jazz scene.
Verse is the quartet imaginings of this creative composer’s musical concept. With influences from the jazz
Granite recently moved back to his hometown Toronto after 16 years on the New York City jazz scene.
Verse is the quartet imaginings of this creative composer’s musical concept. With influences from the jazz
tradition, film music, and chamber music, Verse blends the modern with the traditional while emphasising
improvisational interplay. Bringing some New York City inspired jazz to The Jazz Room for one night only.
“If ever there was a launchpad to immerse oneself in Canada’s creative jazz and vibrant scene, Toronto guitarist and composer Avi Granite is the ideal place to start… The results are truly a revelation…”
– JazzTimes Magazine
“…at once intimate and spacious, a cocoon of enveloping musical passages and revelatory compositional turns.”
– Guitar Aficionado Magazine
Personnel:
Avi Granite-guitar
Jim Lewis-trumpet
Ted Warren-drums
Scott Peterson-bass
Check out: “Good Deal” “Mortetia” “When the View Became the Way”
