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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, 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
A graduate of the York University BFA program, Mike is an active performer and educator. Since moving to Toronto from Nova Scotia in 1981 he has become "one of the pacesetters for his generation in this country" (Miller, Globe and Mail). He has appeared on five Juno Award winning jazz albums, including his own "Two Sides" and "Murley, Bickert & Wallace: Live at the Senator", which received the "Best Traditional Jazz Album – Instrumental" Juno at the 2002 Awards. Mike's CD, "Conversation Piece", received the 1997 Jazz Report Award for best jazz album. Murley was also named Tenor Saxophonist of the Year by the Jazz Report in 1993, 1995, and 1997. Mike teaches at both the University of Toronto and York University.
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Tara Davidson - Saxophone
Toronto-born saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Tara Davidson is earning a reputation as one of the leading lights in the next generation of Canadian jazz musicians. In May 2005, Toronto's Distillery Jazz Festival honored Tara with the "Emerging Artist Award".
Davidson's debut recording as a leader, the Tara Davidson Quartet, is frequently featured on Jazz FM 91.1 and CBC National Radio stations. Her newest CD, Code Breaking, features all-new compositions and special guest, Juno award winning saxophonist, Mike Murley.
Davidson is also a co-founding member of the all-female jazz group, Without Words. The group, which has performed across Brazil, Ontario, Quebec, as well as in Manitoba, and Lima, Peru, received 2nd place in the Montreal Jazz Festival's prestigious General Motors Competition in 2003. Later the same year, Without Words produced their self-titled debut CD.
In January 2001, Davidson received international recognition as the selected saxophonist for IAJE's 2001 Sisters In Jazz Sextet. The sextet had their debut performance at IAJE's annual conference held in New York City and, in the summer of 2001, performed in six of Europe's major jazz festivals including the North Sea Jazz Festival and Istanbul International Jazz Festival.
Tara is currently performing nationally with her own group, the Mike Murley Septet, the Paul Read Orchestra (PRO), the Chris Hunt Tentet, and as a guest with the Laila Biali Trio.
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Kevin Turcotte - Trumpet
Born in Ottawa and raised in Sudbury, Kevin Turcotte has been freelancing on the Canadian scene for well over a decade and a half. He is a versatile player who was voted "Jazz Trumpeter of the Year" by Jazz Report Magazine from 1993 to 1999. He has been a sideman on over 60 recordings, including those by Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Time Warp, the Barry Elmes Quintet featuring Ed Bickert, and the Juno-winning Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra (Nojo). This past year, Kevin toured Canada with some interesting projects. He played the music of Bruce Cockburn with Michael Occhipinti's "Creation Dream" band, the music of Andrew Downing with the Great Uncles of the Revolution, and the music of Charles Mingus with bassist Dave Young. As a member of various Toronto groups, Kevin has had the opportunity to play with such visiting musicians as Ray Anderson, Sam Rivers, Kenny Wheeler, Don Byron and Tito Puente. He has toured in Chile and the former Soviet Union and played jazz festivals in Italy and Venezuela. Kevin currently teaches in the Jazz Program at the University of Toronto.
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Mike Herriott
- Trumpet
Born in England and raised in Newfoundland by musical parents, Mike Herriott began playing the trumpet at six years of age. By the time Mike was eleven, he was already performing for large audiences and recording for CBC radio and television.
An accomplished and respected musician in both the classical and jazz genres, Mike is also widely recognized as a multi-instrumentalist. Living on Canada's West Coast, he is much in demand on trumpet, trombone, and bass, both on stage and in the studio. A musician of great versatility and ability, Mike has shared the stage with some of the world's finest musicians including Maynard Ferguson, Slide Hampton, Phil Nimmons, Tommy Banks, Hugh Fraser, Chucho Valdes, Kenny Wheeler, Rob McConnell, and Ian McDougall.
Among the many recordings he has appeared on are his own Mike Herriott Quintet 1995 release, Free At Last, the Mike Herriott Quartet 2001 release, A Piece of the Action, both on Boathouse Records , and his most recent Mike Herriott Sextet 2004 release, Unto the Breach…, on Roadhouse Records . He is heard regularly on CBC with his own bands and such groups as Hugh Fraser and VEJI, and Vancouver’s Orquesta Goma Dura.
A strong believer in the value of music education, Mike is on the faculties of the Courtenay Youth Music Centre Instrumental and Jazz summer programs and is also trumpet clinician for the Banff Jazz Orchestra Workshop. He has also presented master-classes and clinics at universities, colleges, and secondary schools across Canada.
Mike Herriott is a Yamaha Artist/Clinician and performs exclusively on Yamaha Trumpets, Flugelhorns, and Trombones.
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Mark Eisenman - Piano
In demand as a sideman, 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 Trio's debut CD, " The Chant". Mark has been teaching at York University's Jazz Program since 1982. He has been teaching at Mohawk College's Jazz Program since 1994. 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 moved to Toronto from St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1979 to pursue classical studies on the double bass at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory, with Thomas Monohan who was the principal bassist with the Toronto Symphony. He spent several summers at the Banff Centre studying with Mr. Monohan (1978) and Stuart Knussen (1979) (principal bassist with the London Symphony for 18 years) and also the summers of 1980 and '81 with the National Youth Orchestra studying with Thorveld Fredin (principal bassist with the Royal Stockholm Opera). It was a masterclass at the Banff Centre with Dave Holland in 1982, however, that was to bring Jim's earlier interests in Jazz back into focus.
Jim's first steady gig was with the well-known Jazz/R & B/Rap group, the Shuffle Demons, with whom he played from 1984 to 1989. Also during this period, he developed associations with a group of musicians who were starting a co-op Jazz record label called Unity Records. This group of people included Brian Dickinson, Mike Murley, Jeff Johnston, Barry Romberg, Barry Elmes, Roy Patterson, and Bernie Senensky, all of whom recorded for Unity using Jim as a sideman in their bands. A number of these records were nominated for Juno Awards and two of them, Mike Murley's "Two Sides" and Brian Dickinson's "In Transition", won for Best Jazz Album. After leaving the "Demons" in 1989, Jim continued playing and touring with the Toronto musicians mentioned above and continues to work with them to the present. In 1991 he was awarded an Art's "B" Grant from the Canada Council to study in New York with Dave Holland and Marc Johnson.
Throughout the 1990s Jim remained busy on the Toronto scene, across the country and abroad. In 1993 he joined Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. Over the next 5 years he appeared across North America and in Europe and made 6 records with them including one featuring Mel Torme. In the late 1990's he became involved with the Maritime Jazz Orchestra, which is a big band based in Halifax, run by Greg Carter (Music Department Head at St. Francis Xavier University). It is devoted mostly to playing and recording the music of Kenny Wheeler and has released three records two of which feature John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler and Norma Winstone. Jim appears regularly in clubs with great Toronto players like Mike Murley, Don Thompson, Ted Warren, and Brian Dickinson. He has also accompanied visiting musicians such as John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, John Handy, Sonny Greenwich, Sheila Jordan, Ira Sullivan, Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler.
To date, Jim appears on over 70 records and CDs and has recorded with such internationally renowned artists as John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, Mick Goodrick, Sonny Greenwich, Tim Hagans, Joe Labarbara, David Leibman, Bob Moses, Adam Nussbaum, John Taylor, Don Thompson, Kenny Wheeler, and Norma Winstone, as well as Canadian artists such as Stefan Bauer, Brian Dickinson, Jeff Johnston, Oliver Jones, Rob McConnell, and Roy Patterson. He has been on faculty at the Banff Centre, and presently teaches at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music Jazz Program, York University's Fine Arts- Music Program, and at the Humber College Community Music Program.
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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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