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Terry Promane - Music Director / Trombone
Terry is an Assistant Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University Toronto. As a Yamaha artist, he travels across Canada as a clinician and adjudicator. Terry is a busy freelance tenor/bass trombonist appearing with Toronto based groups including the Rob McConnell Tentet, The Mike Murley Septet, The John Macleod Big Band, The Paul Read Orchestra, The Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra, Dave Young Sextet/Octet and Holly Cole.
Jazz highlights include The Boss Brass, Kenny Wheeler, Bill Holman, Maria Schneider, and Vince Mendoza. Theatre credits include The Sound of Music, Show Boat, Fosse, The Producers and The Lord of the Rings, Lion King, Crazy for You, the Phantom of the Opera and many more.
As a composer and arranger, Terry has written for the PRO- the Paul Read Orchestra, The Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra, the Dave Young Sextet/Octet, The Jazz Cartel and the Brigham Phillips Big Band.
Terry has received numerous Jazz Report and National Jazz Awards nominations including Arranger of the year 2005 and "Jazz Trombonist of the year 2005, 2006, and 2007. In 1999, and 2000, Terry was honored as the "Jazz Trombonist of theYear" from the Jazz Report magazine.
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Mike Murley - Saxophone
An engaging, lyrical saxophonist, Mike Murley has emerged as one of the Canada’s finest jazz talents and one of the most versatile players on the scene today. Currently active as a leader in various formations from duo to septet, Murley also maintains a busy schedule as a sideman and jazz educator (York University).
Since 1991, Murley has played on nine Juno Award winning recordings and has been named saxophonist of the year eight times by the Jazz Report Awards and National Jazz Awards.
Murley's latest recording as a leader, "The Melody Lingers On" (CBC records), finds the saxophonist's trio live in concert at the Glenn Gould Studio with a twelve-piece string ensemble conducted by Rick Wilkins. Also featured on the recording are Guido Basso (flugelhorn) and Tara Davidson (saxes) with string arrangements by Murley and guitarist Reg Schwager.
In 2008 Murley released two new recordings as a co-leader, "DMBQ Live" and "Day and Night" with his former teacher David Liebman.
Since 2005 Murley has been teaching exclusively at York University where he presently is area coordinator of jazz studies. He has also taught at the University of Toronto, Humber College, and has been a visiting member of faculty at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts.
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Dave Neill - Saxophone
Born and raised in Ottawa, saxophonist Dave Neill moved to Toronto in 1995 to pursue a jazz performance degree from the University of Toronto. Since the completion of his degree, he has been in great demand as a performer, instructor and clinician. Known as an up-and-coming player, Dave has appeared at numerous jazz festivals, including the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and the Atlantic Jazz Festival, and is actively involved with the freelance scene. Aside from teaching at "The" Jazz Camp, Dave is on faculty at the University of Toronto, Humber College and the Humber College Community Music School, all while maintaining a full clientele of private students.
In June of 2007, Dave graduated in the first ever class with a Master's in Jazz Performance from the University of Toronto. He has just released his debut CD "All In" which includes eight original compositions and one standard, featuring his regular quartet: pianist David Braid, bassist Pat Collins and Anthony Michelli on drums. For more information, visit www.daveneill.ca.
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Kevin Turcotte - Trumpet
“One of the nation’s leading men on the horn … full of fresh ideas … a canny artist who can adopt with aplomb more disguises than Zorro” (Toronto Star)
Toronto-based trumpeter, Kevin Turcotte, has had the privilege of playing on more than one hundred recordings over the last twenty years with musicians from all across the country. Eighteen of these recordings have garnered Juno Nominations while four were Juno Winners. Whether it is recent outings by the Barenaked Ladies and Bruce Cockburn, the funky sounds of Mr. Something Something and Planet Earth, the eclectic nature of the Great Uncles of the Revolution and Jayme Stone or modern collaborations like the Sicilian Jazz Project and Ricochet, Kevin always brings a passion and creativity to each session.
Kevin has been a long-time member of many Canadian jazz groups including Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, the Barry Elmes Quintet featuring Ed Bickert, Time Warp, Barry Romberg’s Random Access, Andrew Downing’s Melodeon and Arts and Letters, the Neufeld Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra (NOJO), the Dave Young Quintet, and the Jean Martin Trio. He has been featured on stage with a diverse roster of players such as Hermeto Pascoal, Sam Rivers, Carla Bley, Don Byron, Brian Blade, Seamus Blake, David Tronzo, Tito Puente, Herb Geller, Curtis Fuller, Roscoe Mitchell and David Clayton-Thomas.
Kevin graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Music and attended summer jazz sessions at the Banff School of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Anthony Davis and Kenny Werner. He taught in the University of Toronto Jazz Degree program for over a decade and is now teaching at York University.
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Jim Lewis - Trumpet
Jim Lewis is a freelance trumpet player, improviser, composer/arranger and educator. He is a member of the Paul Read Orchestra, Frank Lozano Group, his own improvising Trio, and is the Musical Director and featured soloist with the Jazz Mechanics Big Band, with whom he toured Italy and Austria in 2006. He can be heard in clubs in the Toronto area, Ottawa, and Montreal as a sideman and with his own projects from duo to sextet. Jim has been featured on CBC’s Jazzbeat and has played jazz festivals across Canada, in the United States and Europe with some of Canada’s most creative jazz musicians. In 2004 he completed a Masters Degree in Performance (Concentration in Jazz) at the University of Louisville, where he studied trumpet performance with Dr. Michael Tunnell, composition and arranging with John LaBarbera and improvisation with Jamey Aebersold. Jim is the Musical Director of the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s yearly ‘Youth Jazz Summit' and has adjudicated festivals and presented workshops across Canada and in the U.S.A., including clinics, a research paper and performing groups at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conferences in Chicago, New York, Anaheim and New Orleans. Jim is currently a Sessional Instructor at the University of Toronto and an adjunct faculty member at Humber College.
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Andrew Jones - Trombone
Composer, trombonist and educator, Andrew Jones is active in the Toronto jazz, classical and commercial scene as a writer, clinician and a player. A graduate of the University of Toronto Jazz Performance Program, he is a regular member of many large and small ensembles as a leader and sideman, most recently as a part of the Paul Read Orchestra (P.R.O.) and Barry Romberg's Random Access Large Ensemble (R.A.L.E.).
Winner of the 2008 SOCAN/IAJE Phil Nimmons Emerging Jazz Composer Award, the 2005 Toronto Jazz Orchestra "Young Composers" Competition and the 2001 Don Wright Scholarship for Composition in Education, Andrew is busy as a composer and arranger. He has served as head arranger for the Whitney Smith Big Steam Band for 6 years and has developed his own independent business of creating educationally sound, original music for professional and developing jazz ensembles.
Andrew has recently finished a year living in Europe, focusing on his compositional technique and travelling the world. He currently teaches at Cawthra Park School for the Arts in Mississauga and is an instructor at numerous summer jazz programs where he continues his development of school level jazz fundamentals through composition.
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Mark Eisenman - Piano
In demand as a sideman, a wonderful vocal accompanist, Mark Eisenman has performed in many different venues with numerous eminent Canadian and U.S. jazz artists including the following: Jimmy Cobb, Ed Thigpen, Nat Adderley, Ed Bickert, Rob McConnell, Sam Noto, and Pat Labarbera. He has toured Canada extensively with saxophonist Alex Dean and bassist Dave Young. He has also had numerous radio appearances and is well represented on recordings, the latest of which is The Mark Eisenman Quintet's "APPARITION". Mark has been teaching at York University's Jazz Program since 1982. He also is a private piano instructor and vocal coach at his home in Toronto.
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Ted Quinlan - Guitar
Ted Quinlan is regarded as one of the most versatile guitar players in Canada. His skills are highly in demand as a jazz player, session musician, producer, writer and educator. Ted is the Head of the Guitar Department at Humber College in Toronto. As a busy sideman Ted has performed with Chet Baker, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Smith and Joey DeFrancesco. His recording credits include his Juno nominated CD "As If", "Con Alma" with Doug Riley, Phil Dwyer's "Road Stories", "Prayer for Humankindness" by Dave Restivo", Radioland's "A Tribute to Wes Montgomery" and "First Time Caller" by Ted Warren. Ted has also performed on many jingles and movie soundtracks including David Cronenberg's "Crash". Ted is the recipient of the 1998 Jazz Report Award for Guitarist of the Year.
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Jim Vivian - Bass
Jim Vivian has been at the forefront of music making in Canada for over 20 years, and has performed and/or recorded with most of the well known jazz artists working in the country today. Originally from Newfoundland, he moved from St. John’s to Toronto in 1979 to pursue classical bass studies with Thomas Monohan, Stuart Knussen, and Thorveld Fredin. During the early 1980’s he began to focus more on jazz and improvised music, studying with Dave Holland at the Banff centre, and later in New York with Holland and Marc Johnson.
Jim has long-standing associations with many musicians in Toronto and across the country such as Mike Murley, Jeff Johnston, Don Thompson, Geoff Young, Brian Dickinson, Ted Warren, Steve Amirault, John MacLeod, and Barry Romberg, to name a few. He appears on numerous recordings, over 20 of which have been nominated for Juno awards in as many years. He has also performed and recorded with many internationally esteemed artists such as John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, Mick Goodrick, David Leibman, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, and Norma Winstone.
An experienced teacher, Jim is presently on faculty at the University of Toronto, York University, and the Humber College Community School.
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Ted Warren - Drums
Ted has a solid reputation as a musical, versatile drummer. He is an active member of Canada's jazz scene and has been recognized with Jazz Report's Drummer of the Year award. He teaches at Humber and Mohawk College in their Jazz Studies programs and is a well-regarded clinician and adjudicator. Ted fronts his own quartet, Ted's Warren Commission, which has just released their debut CD, First Time Caller. He is a member of the Mike Murley, Mike Downes, Kieran Overs, and Ted Quinlan groups. He was the drummer for the Boss Brass and can be heard on six of their recent CDs, including Velvet and Brass (with Mel Torme), From Lush to Lively (with Oliver Jones), Even Canadians get the Blues, and The Boss Brass Plays the Jazz Classics.
Ted studied music at McGill and received a certificate in Jazz Studies from St. Francis Xavier University. He has worked with many acclaimed performers, including Slide Hampton, Bob Newhart, Maynard Ferguson, Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, Jeff Healey, Norma Winstone, Sheila Jordan, Howard Johnson, Nick Brignola, Kenny Wheeler, and Gerry Bergonzi. Ted's extensive touring has taken him to Poland, South Korea, Spain, Brazil, Iceland, and Japan. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall with harpist Joanna Jordon. In addition to his other recorded work, you can hear Ted on Mike Murley's CDs Extra Time, and the Jazz Report's Album of the Year recipient, Conversation Piece. You can also hear Ted on the Juno Award winning Tales from the Blue Lounge by Richard Underhill. Ted endorses Vic Firth drumsticks, Zildjian cymbals, and Tamburo drums.
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Lisa Martinelli - Vocal Jazz
Since moving to Toronto from Sault Ste. Marie in 1984, Lisa has been an active educator, clinician, and performer. She earned her Mus. Bac. and B. Ed. degrees at the University of Toronto, and an honors diploma from Humber College. She freelances in the Toronto area where she leads her own jazz quintet, while maintaining a busy teaching schedule as faculty member of Humber College and the University of Toronto. Lisa's singing experiences include performances with Peter Appleyard, Ed Bickert, Don Thompson, and British artists Kenny Wheeler and Norme Winstone. She has appeared as a featured artist at many music camp festivals and concerts, The Banff School of Fine Arts, the Ontario Pavillion and the B.C. Stadium at Expo '86, and with Fred Penner and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Lisa has directed choirs at the University of Toronto, Humber College, "The" Jazz Camp, IMC, and the University of Wisconsin Summer Music Camp.
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Kelly Jefferson – Jazz Camp for Teachers / Saxophone
Saxophonist Kelly Jefferson has a Bachelor of Music from McGill University in Montreal and a Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
Kelly has performed with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, The National Arts Centre Orchestra, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Maria Schneider, Bill Holman, Ray Anderson, Kenny Werner, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Michel LeGrand, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade, as well as Ray Brown, Sonny Fortune, Renee Rosnes, Johnny Mathis, Russell Malone, and Dee Dee Bridgewater, among others.
Kelly has toured extensively in Canada, the United States, Japan, Europe, and China, including a nine-month tour in 2000 as the tenor saxophonist with legendary trumpeter Maynard Ferguson.
Kelly has been nominated for Saxophonist of the Year by the National Jazz Awards from 2005 to 2009. The Kelly Jefferson Quartet is his latest project featuring original compositions that stem from a variety of influences.
Along with trombonist/composer Kelsley Grant, Kelly co-leads the Jefferson-Grant Quintet, winners of the Opus Award for Jazz Album of the Year for their 1999 debut release "JGQ ". Their second disc entitled "As One" was released in June of 2002. The band has performed across Canada and was a nominee at the 2003 National Jazz Awards for Acoustic Group of the Year.
Kelly is presently on faculty at York University in Toronto, with previous teaching positions at Humber College in Toronto and McGill University in Montreal.
Mr. Jefferson has also adjudicated at music festivals across Canada and has given numerous workshops throughout Canada, the United States and China.
An active freelance musician, Kelly performs regularly with groups that include the William Carn Quintet, Manteca, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Time Warp, the Artie Roth Quintet, the Shuffle Demons, Dave Young Quintet, the Chris Tarry Group (2008 Juno Award Winner, Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year) Denzal Sinclaire and Barry Romberg’s Random Access.
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