Canadian Jazz Artists
Many Canadian jazz artists and groups have achieved national or international prominence and have received critical or audience acclaim...
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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson (Pianist) was born on August 15, 1925 in Montreal, Quebec and passed away on December 23, 2007 in Mississauga, Ontario,...
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Guido Basso
Guido Basso (trumpet, flugelhorn, harmonica, conductor, arranger and composer) was born in Montreal in 1937. Guido was only nine years old...
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Ed Bickert
Ed Bickert (guitarist) was born in 1932, in Hochfeld, Manitoba, and raised in the farming and fruit-growing community around Vernon,...
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Moe Koffman
Moe Koffman (flute, saxophone, clarinet, composer, arranger) was born Dec. 28, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He passed away on March...
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Sonny Greenwich
Sonny Greenwich (guitarist) was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Sonny Greenwich first drew notice for his style in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario....
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Rob McConnell
Rob McConnell (valve trombonist, arranger, composer, big band leader) was born on February 14, 1935 in London, Ontario, and passed away on...
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Doug Riley
Doug Riley (pianist, organist, composer, bandleader, producer) was born on April 12, 1945 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He passed away on...
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Don Thompson
Don Thompson (bass, piano, vibraphone, composer, arranger, producer, educator) was born in 1940, in Powell River, British Columbia,...
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Lenny Breau
Lenny Breau (guitarist) was born on August 5, 1941 in Auburn, Maine and passed away on August 12, 1984 in Los Angeles, California....
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Dave Young
Dave Young (bassist) was born on January 29, 1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He began studying the guitar and violin when he was 10...
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Diana Krall
Diana Krall (pianist, vocalist, songwriter) was born in November, 1964 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. She began classical piano...
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Phil Nimmons
Phil Nimmons (clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, bandleader, educator) was born on June 3, 1923 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. He...
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Rick Wilkins
Rick Wilkins (tenor saxophone, arranger, composer, conductor) was born in 1937, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is widely recognized as...
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Peter Appleyard
Peter Appleyard (vibraphonist, percussionist, composer) was born on August 26, 1928 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. As a youth, he...
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Oliver Jones
Oliver was born and raised in Saint Henri, a predominantly working class area of Montreal, several blocks from Peterson, and young Oliver...
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Charlie Biddle
Charles Reed “Charlie” Biddle (July 28, 1926 – February 4, 2003) was a Canadian Jazz Bassist and promoter. Born and...
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Terry Clarke
Terry Clarke (drummer) was born in 1944, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He began displaying rhythmic aptitude at a very early...
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Reg Schwager
Reg Schwager (guitarist) was born in 1962, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is today, and has been for many years, one of Canada’s...
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Robi Botos
Robi Botos (pianist) was born into a musical family in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, the mainly self-taught Robi Botos began his musical career...
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Neil Swainson
Neil Swainson (bassist) was born on November 15, 1955 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He began playing professionally there,...
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Claude Ranger
Claude Ranger (drummer, composer, arranger, teacher) was born on Feb 3, 1941 in Montreal, Canada. He studied drums briefly with several...
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Sam Noto
SAM NOTO (trumpeter, flugelhornist) was born on April 17, 1930 in Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. Reputed as an excellent bop soloist, Noto has...
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Lorne Lofsky
Lorne Lofsky (guitarist) started off playing rock music but took an interest in jazz upon hearing the Miles Davis album “Kind of...
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Carol Welsman
Carol Welsman (singer, pianist) was born into a musical family on September 29, 1960 in Toronto, Ontario. (Her grandfather, Frank S....
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Archie Alleyne
ARCHIE ALLEYNE (drummer, bandleader) was born Archibald Alexander Alleyne on January 7, 1933 and passed away on June 8, 2015 in Toronto,...
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Michael Bublé
Michael Bublé (singer, songwriter) was born in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada to Lewis Bublé, a salmon fisherman, and Amber...
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Steve Wallace
Steve Wallace (bassist) was born in 1956, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is today regarded by many as the most powerful bass player that...
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Bernie Senensky
Bernie Senensky (pianist, composer) was born December 31, 1944 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Recognized as one of Canada’s premier jazz...
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Norman Marshall Villeneuve
Norman Marshall Villeneuve (drummer) was born May 29, 1938 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Villeneuve grew up in the St. Henri District, home...
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Michel Donato
Michel Donato (bassist) was born in Montreal on August 25th, 1942, into a family drenched in musical tradition. His grandfather was an...
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Phil Dwyer
Phil Dwyer (alto and tenor saxophonist, pianist) was born December 17, 1965 in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. A critically acclaimed...
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Dave McMurdo
Dave McMurdo (trombonist, composer, arranger, conductor, teacher) was born March 4, 1944 in Isleworth, England, and passed away on June...
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Kieran Overs
Kieran Overs (bassist) was born on December 22, 1950 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been active on the Canadian music scene since...
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Gary Williamson
Gary Williamson (pianist) was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. His grandmother, Doss Williamson, also a pianist, began his early...
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Denny Christianson
Denny Christianson (trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, composer, bandleader, educator) was born September 12, 1940 in Rockford, Illinois,...
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Barry Elmes
Barry Elmes (drummer) was born in Galt, Ontario. Barry has occupied a position of prominence on the Canadian jazz scene since the 1980s...
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Pat Collins
Pat Collins was raised in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He began taking piano lessons at the age of six, and at the age of thirteen,...
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Michael Stuart
Michael Stuart (tenor and soprano saxophones) was born in Jamaica , W.I. After graduating from high school there, he attended the...
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Kevin Turcotte
Kevin Turcotte (trumpet, flugelhorn) was born in 1964 in Ottawa, Ontario,Canada, but raised in Sudbury, Ontario. He is universally...
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Morgan Childs
Morgan Childs is a drummer living in Toronto, Ontario. Originally hailing from Invermere, BC, in that province’s mountainous East Kootenay...
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Kirk MacDonald
Kirk MacDonald (tenor and alto saxophonist, flutist, piccolo) was born October 2, 1959 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He started to play the...
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Arnie Chycoski
Arnie Chycoski (trumpet) was born May 7, 1936 in New Westminister, British Columbia. Called by celebrated band-leader Rob McConnell, “One...
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Steve McDade
Steve McDade (trumpet/flugelhorn) was born in Bridgeton Cross, Glasgow, Scotland in 1962. His family moved to Burlington, Ontario, Canada,...
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Adrean Farrugia
Award winning pianist and composer Adrean Farrugia is one of Canada’s most distinct voices on the piano. Since the late 1990s Adrean has...
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Mike Murley
Mike Murley (tenor and soprano saxophonist) was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1961. Mike Murley has emerged as one of the...
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Kelly Jefferson
Kelly Jefferson (saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, piccolo-player) was born March 4, 1970 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He holds a a...
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John MacLeod
John MacLeod (trumpet, flugelhorn, composer, arranger, bandleader) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1955. His impeccable...
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Cory Weeds
Cory Weeds (saxophonist) has been a professional musician for the better part of 15 years. As a member of popular Vancouver band People...
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Mark Eisenman
Mark Eisenman (pianist) was born November 9, 1955 in New York City, New York, U.S.A. Born in New York City but based in Toronto since...
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Pat LaBarbera
Pat LaBarbera Website Pat LaBarbera (saxophonist, teacher, composer) was born in Mt. Morris, NY, in 1944. His first teacher was his...
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Darcy Hepner
Darcy Hepner (saxophonist, flutist, composer, educator) was raised in the “Steel City” of Hamilton, Ontario, Hepner comes...
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Jerry Fuller
Jerry Fuller (drummer) was born on April 5, 1939 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He passed away July 13, 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He...
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Russ Little
Russ Little (trombonist, composer, arranger, conductor) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1941. He was raised on the island of...
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Dave Restivo
Dave Restivo (piano) is one of canada’s most respected and influential jazz artists, well-known for his work with Rob...
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Bob Brough
Bob Brough (tenor, alto,baritone saxophone, flute) was born on May 18, 1948 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and holds the distinction of...
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Mark Kelso
Mark Kelso (drummer, percussionist, singer, composer, producer, educator) was born in 1963 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His family...
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Shelly Berger
Shelly Berger (bassist, arranger, composer, producer) was born February 22, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A teacher on the faculty of...
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P. J. Perry
P.J. Perry (tenor/alto saxophone, clarinet, flute & piccolo) was born in 1941, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is...
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Perry White
Perry White ( tenor, baritone, alto, and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet) was born in Vancouver, British Columbia,...
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Ted Quinlan
Ted Quinlan (guitarist, writer, educator) a Montreal-born Berklee-educated is respected as one of Canada’s most multi-faceted jazz...
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Alastair Kay
Alastair Kay (trombonist) is widely recognized as one of Canada’s finest trombonists. Over the past three decades, he has performed...
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Alex Dean
Alex Dean (saxophones, clarinet, flute, piccolo, oboe) was born in 1954. Renowned as one of Canada’s foremost jazz saxophonists,...
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Bill McBirnie
Bill McBirnie (flutes, piccolo) was in born in 1953, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Widely recognized as one of the world’s best...
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Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall (trombonist, arranger, composer) was born in 1938, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and grew up in victoria, British Columbia...
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Rachel Therrien
“Montreal-based trumpeter and composer Rachel Therrien’s second album, Home Inspiration is a salutary reminder of something that the...
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