All Members – Past and Present
In Alphabetical Order:
Ted Warren (drummer) was born in 1965, in Saskatchewan. He studied Music at Montreal’s Mcgill University, and received a certificate in Jazz Studies from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He teaches in the Jazz Studies programs at both Humber College in Toronto and Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, and is also a well-regarded clinician and adjudicator. An active member of Canada’s jazz scene, Warren has a solid reputation as a musical, versatile drummer. Hr fronts his own quartet, Ted’s Warren...
read moreJiro “Butch” Watanabe (trombonist) was born June 7, 1923 in Fraser Mills, British Columbia, Canada. He passed away November 5, 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Butch Watanabe was an accomplished trombonist who worked with Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass, Peter Appleyard, Phil Nimmons, Ron Collier, and Anne Murray. Watanabe’s family were among thousands of Japanese Canadians classified as enemy aliens and sent to internment camps after Japan’s bombing of Pearl harbor in 1941. The family...
read moreRick Wilkins (tenor saxophone, arranger, composer, conductor) was born in 1937, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is widely recognized as one of the country’s most accomplished saxophonists, and among the most consummate arrangers and conductors in the world. In 2003, he was awarded both the Order of Canada and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal in recognition of his genius over more than five decades on the international music scene. He became one of the leading writers and arrangers for CBC-TV Variety, working with stars such as Tommy...
read moreDave Woods (trumpet, bandleader) was British-born, but built his career as an outstanding trumpet-player and exceptional bandleader inToronto over the past several decades. Woods played in the trumpet section of Rob McConnell’s celebrated “The Boss Brass” for much of the band’s existence, as well as most of the other big bands and several smaller ensembles on the Toronto jazz scene. He led the band at Ontario Place for years playing for hundreds of acts which played “The Forum” there. He also contracted,...
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