Brad Muirhead

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Brad Muirhead (* around 1960) is a Canadian jazz and improvisation musician ( trombone , bass trombone , tuba , sousaphone , euphonium ).

Live and act

Brad Muirhead completed a classical training as a trombonist and worked in the Vancouver jazz scene from the early 1980s ; first recordings were made in 1986 with The Vancouver Ensemble of Jazz Improvisation . In the following years he played a. a. with François Houle , Gregg Simpson , Claude Ranger, Hugh Fraser , John Korsrud , Ray Anderson , George Lewis ( The NOW Orchestra ), Marilyn Crispell and Conny Bauer as well as in the Hard Rubber Orchestra . He also directs the Brad Muirhead Quartet , plays in the jazz / funk band Proulsion and the improvisation ensemble Idverb , in the world music sextet Koan , in the Van East Jazz Orchestra , which he directs with Jared Burrows , and in the New World Orchestra , which he founded with Jin Zhang. In the field of jazz he was involved in 17 recording sessions between 1986 and 2009, as a studio musician also with the singer / songwriter Matthew Good ( Lights of Endangered Species , 2011) and the indie band Said the Whale ( Little Mountain , 2012).

Discographic notes

  • François Houle et Cetera: Hacienda ( Songlines Recordings , 1992)
  • George Lewis / The NOW Orchestra: The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions for Creative Orchestra (Spool, 2001)
  • Hard Rubber Orchestra: Rub Harder (Les Disques Victo, 2002), a. a. with John Korsrud, Lori Freedman , Marilyn Lerner , Brad Turner , Peggy Lee
  • NOW Orchestra & Marilyn Crispell: Pola ( Victo , 2005), with Bruce Freedman, Saul Berson, Coat Cooke, Clyde Reed, Paul Blaney, Dylan van der Schyff , Ron Samworth, Graham Ord, Rod Murray, John Korsrud, Kevin Elaschuk
  • Brasstronaut: Old World Lies EP (Unfamiliar Records, 2008), with Bryan Davies, Edo Van Breemen, John Walsh, Doug Gorkoff, Benji Bohannon, Eric Edington-Hryb, Dan Moxon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 14, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Muirhead, Brad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1960