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Toronto Jazz Orchestra
TICKETS ON SALE JUNE 10 AT 10:00 AM
The 18-piece Toronto Jazz Orchestra (TJO) was created in 1998 to perform music by some of the most important composers in jazz – writers like Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Phil Nimmons, Rob McConnell and more. Over the past 28 years, their repertoire has evolved to include compositions and arrangements ranging from classic swing tunes to the leading edge of contemporary jazz, with an emphasis on Canadian composers and arrangers. The TJO seeks to educate, entertain, and increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of big band jazz.
Since 1998, the TJO has performed regularly at Toronto’s Rex Hotel; they have also appeared in Beaches, Lakefield, Markham, Brantford, Kensington Market, World of Jazz and Toronto Jazz Festivals. The TJO has performed at the Milton Centre for the Arts, the Richmond Hill Performance Arts Centre, Ottawa’s Shenkman Centre, as part of the Welland-Port Colborne Concert Association and Sarnia Concert Association series, and with Hugh’s Room Live. Their fourth CD, 20, was released in 2018.
As part of their regular performance schedule, the TJO has undertaken special projects including: the Cuban Fire Suite (as recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra); an evening with Phil Nimmons, featuring a performance of The Atlantic Suite; music from West Side Story, featuring 12 new arrangements by 5 local composers; Miles Ahead, with guest trumpeter Kevin Turcotte, featuring the original Gil Evans arrangements from the Gil Evans/Miles Davis collaboration; the Big Band Gospel Project, a collaboration with the Toronto Mass Choir; the Big Band Tap Revue, featuring the TJO performing with five tap dancers; and more than a dozen editions of the Radiohead Jazz Project. The ensemble has also presented tributes to the orchestras of Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, and was featured at the inaugural Toronto International Tap Dance Festival with soloist Ted Louis Levy.
The TJO has been honoured to perform with a variety of guest artists including local musicians Phil Nimmons and Kevin Turcotte; Canadians living elsewhere including Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Seamus Blake and Socalled; and Americans including Geoffrey Keezer and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling.
Toronto Jazz Orchestra founder, Artistic Director and Conductor Josh Grossman is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Jazz Performance Program where he studied trumpet with Chase Sanborn and Kevin Turcotte. He has performed in big bands under the direction of Phil Nimmons, Paul Read, Ron Collier and Paul Ashwell, and is a regular member of the Chris Hunt Tentet. Josh has been Artistic Director for Toronto Downtown Jazz, which produces the annual Toronto Jazz Festival, since 2010.
Website: www.thetjo.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/torontojazzorchestra
Album: www.thetjo.bandcamp.com/album/20
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tojazzad
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Toronto Jazz Orchestra
TICKETS ON SALE JUNE 10 AT 10:00 AM
The 18-piece Toronto Jazz Orchestra (TJO) was created in 1998 to perform music by some of the most important composers in jazz – writers like Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Phil Nimmons, Rob McConnell and more. Over the past 28 years, their repertoire has evolved to include compositions and arrangements ranging from classic swing tunes to the leading edge of contemporary jazz, with an emphasis on Canadian composers and arrangers. The TJO seeks to educate, entertain, and increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of big band jazz.
Since 1998, the TJO has performed regularly at Toronto’s Rex Hotel; they have also appeared in Beaches, Lakefield, Markham, Brantford, Kensington Market, World of Jazz and Toronto Jazz Festivals. The TJO has performed at the Milton Centre for the Arts, the Richmond Hill Performance Arts Centre, Ottawa’s Shenkman Centre, as part of the Welland-Port Colborne Concert Association and Sarnia Concert Association series, and with Hugh’s Room Live. Their fourth CD, 20, was released in 2018.
As part of their regular performance schedule, the TJO has undertaken special projects including: the Cuban Fire Suite (as recorded by the Stan Kenton Orchestra); an evening with Phil Nimmons, featuring a performance of The Atlantic Suite; music from West Side Story, featuring 12 new arrangements by 5 local composers; Miles Ahead, with guest trumpeter Kevin Turcotte, featuring the original Gil Evans arrangements from the Gil Evans/Miles Davis collaboration; the Big Band Gospel Project, a collaboration with the Toronto Mass Choir; the Big Band Tap Revue, featuring the TJO performing with five tap dancers; and more than a dozen editions of the Radiohead Jazz Project. The ensemble has also presented tributes to the orchestras of Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, and was featured at the inaugural Toronto International Tap Dance Festival with soloist Ted Louis Levy.
The TJO has been honoured to perform with a variety of guest artists including local musicians Phil Nimmons and Kevin Turcotte; Canadians living elsewhere including Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Seamus Blake and Socalled; and Americans including Geoffrey Keezer and Grammy Award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling.
Toronto Jazz Orchestra founder, Artistic Director and Conductor Josh Grossman is a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Jazz Performance Program where he studied trumpet with Chase Sanborn and Kevin Turcotte. He has performed in big bands under the direction of Phil Nimmons, Paul Read, Ron Collier and Paul Ashwell, and is a regular member of the Chris Hunt Tentet. Josh has been Artistic Director for Toronto Downtown Jazz, which produces the annual Toronto Jazz Festival, since 2010.
Website: www.thetjo.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/torontojazzorchestra
Album: www.thetjo.bandcamp.com/album/20
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tojazzad