Paul Mitchell is a very talented trumpet and flugel horn player who has played extensively in the region and toured throughout North America. His show will surface some of the gems from some of the best trumpet players from the mid ’40s to the mid ’50s including Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie and Freddie …
Please note that, for this event, the passholder ticket price is $10 Acclaimed jazz / hip-hop trumpet player BROWNMAN ALI will once again lead an all-star quartet through his popular annual Halloween Thriller concert. The much lauded BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO + 1 will perform the entire Michael Jackson “Thriller” recording, interpreted and re-worked in the …
Having strummed since the sixth grade on his grandfather’s old guitar, Keith Price landed his first gigs at age fifteen. First influenced by pop, punk and heavy metal, he discovered jazz through the intensity and spirituality of John Coltrane. Price began his formal studies in music at age nineteen at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. …
Please note that this event is included for passholders at no extra charge. ‘Mark Kelso, the one who now most often sits at the rhythmic helm, usually no more than seven paces behind me on stage, has that certain quality of precision, passion and metric poetry, that can allow me the freedom to sing and …
Mike Murley’s current trio, which features Reg Schwager on guitar and Steve Wallace on Bass, continues its tradition of intimate, lyrical explorations of jazz standards. This is not your average trio – no piano, no drum kit. It’s mainstream chamber jazz at it’s finest. Formed in 1998, Mike’s original trio featured the legendary Ed Bickert (guitar) …
Top Pocket returns to the Jazz Room on October 23 for a 30th Anniversary CD Release Show for their new album, “rocket in my (top) pocket”! One of Waterloo’s best-known, and most popular Jazz bands since the late 80′s, this quartet has ranged from be-bop, fusion, Latin, traditional and jazz these guys with tremendous versatility and depth! The original line-up …
” Please note that this show is included for passholders at no extra charge. “…a characterful composer and a player of skill … :” -PETER BACON (TheJazzBreakfast, May 2014, UK) ” Highly reminscent of Jim Hall in his warmth of tone and sense of space, Zerafa nurtures a certain notion of ‘cool’, …
“Colligan is an equally deserving torch-carrier of the piano trio tradition….” John Kelman , All About Jazz “One of the best kept secrets in jazz….” Chris Hoven, All About Jazz George Colligan is a New York based pianist, organist, drummer, trumpeter, teacher, and bandleader, who is one of the most original and compelling jazz artists …
“Fern Lindzon is an engaging pianist and singer who brings an unassuming authority, an inquiring spirit and a natural grace to contemporary jazz.”–Mark Miller, jazz writer Toronto singer, pianist, arranger, composer and 2012 JUNO Award Nominee Fern Lindzon draws on a wide range of inspirations, finding both the personal and the universal in the work …
Toronto-born jazz bassist Artie Roth has been an active composer, bandleader, performer and educator in the national and international jazz communities, since his graduation from York University in 1992 with the Oscar Peterson Scholarship. After two Canada Council sponsored study tenures in New York City (1993 and 1997), Artie returned to Toronto establishing himself as …
