The "Jazz Beat Sessions" is a compilation of two previously aired Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recordings from the program Jazz Beat.
Featuring Shan Arsenault (guitar), Jamie Gatti (bass), Tom Roach (drums) and Dave Burton (drums).
[+]The "Jazz Beat Sessions" is a compilation of two previously aired Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recordings from the program Jazz Beat.
Featuring Shan Arsenault (guitar), Jamie Gatti (bass), Tom Roach (drums) and Dave Burton (drums).
More about the musicians:
Shan Arsenault -
Among the many artists he has performed with are Jeff Healy, Doug Mallory, Doug (Dr. Music) Riley, Jerry Granelli, Terry Hattie, Alfie Zappacosta, Dutch Mason, Kirk MacDonald, Lorne Lofsky, Chris Mitcell, Joe Sealy, Peter Appleyard, clarinetist Francois Houle and Dutch percussionist Han Bennink as well as the Paul Cram Sextet. He has toured throughout Canada and the U.S. and performed in many of Canada's jazz festivals including the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1995.
Check out what reviewer Stephen Pederson has to say about Shan and his songwriting:
"...one of the finest jazz talents to come out of the local scene. Arsenault's superbly timed breaks and fills are unforced and natural, even when, as sometimes happens, his melodic imagination floods the chord changes with more notes than you thought would fit in between the bar lines. What makes it even more interesting is it's uniqueness. His eloquence sounds both spontaneous and deliberate, a kind of thinking out loud with notes instead of words, line instead of sentences and rhythm as attention-compelling rhetoric."
Jamie Gatti -
On one hand, bassist Jamie Gatti is a virtuoso, flying over his gigantic instrument as if it were but a tiny fiddle. On the other, he is one of the hardest working musicians around - running from gig to gig, shifting on a dime from celtic to jazz to pop often in the same night. He was a member of the RCMP Band in Ottawa for several years and has been the Barra MacNeils' bassist for over 5 years. Gatti has performed alongside many jazz musicians including: Chet Baker, Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo, Red Rodney, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Barney Kessel. He's a regular session player at the CBC studios, and he plays bass on pretty much every album recorded in Nova Scotia.
Dave Burton -
David Burton has toured the world as a drummer and studio player backing up such Canadian superstars as Rita Macneil, Natalie Macmaster, Alanya Myles, Kenny Tobias, Ian Thomas, Alfie Zappa
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