Toronto, ON based Commercial/Lead Trumpet Player. Humber College Bachelor of Music Student. Youth4Music Ambassador.  Read more below: 

Toronto, ON based musician George A. Murga Martinez is a commercial/lead trumpet player by trade, having studied privatly and in school for many years. Coming from a variety of musical styles, George has a strong background in multiple genres and musical settings. George has been a part of many elite industry ensembles, Big Bands, Drum Corps, Marching Bands, Gospel groups, Brass Quintets, Funk Groups, and Rock outifts.
 
George holds a certificate in Contemporary Music and Jazz Performance and is currently pursuing his Bachelor's Degree in music at Humber School of Creative and Performing Arts, one of Canada's top music schools. At school, he is currently part of Mark Promane's Big Band and Collin Barrett's 'Groove Merchants'. George has received instruction from some of Canada's top musicians such as Alaistair Kay, Kieran Overs, Andy Ballantyne, Brian O'Kaine, William Carn, Cathy Metro and Colleen Allen.
 
George has had the honour of playing with some of North America's finest Drum and Bugle Corps like The Empire Statesmen and The Colts. He has been fortunate enough to be under the direction of brass greats such as Jason Buckingham, Chuck Naffier, Jimmy Steele and Joey Pero. George aims to innovate in the marching arts and to ultimately bring back the high level of pageantry arts in Canada.
 
Inspired by Lead Trumpet legends Maynard Ferguson, Arturo Sandoval, Wayne Bergeron and Jon Faddis, George is very passionate about hard swing music, in big band jazz. He is currently in his third year playing Lead Trumpet with the Hamilton All Star Big Band. Other big bands he has performed with include the Toronto All Star Big Band and the Jazz Connection Big Band.
 
In the Gospel world George has been a part of numerous projects and recordings. Most recently alongside Toronto Gospel Innovator Colvin Chambers, he composed, arranged and recorded the horn parts for a Glass Awards nominated album, 'Y-Evolution' by Sheldon Neil. He is also a recording artist for Redeeming Music Records. George has shared the stage with gospel greats such as Israel Hoguhton, Don Moen, Steve Green, Alvin Slaughter, Dave Brown and Jermaine Shakespeare.
 
Along with the performance aspect of his music, George is very passionate about Arts education. He is currently the Brass director for St. Mary's High school (Hamilton, ON) Brass Ensemble. In 2014 he became the Brass Caption Head for Blue Saints and brought the corps to their highest brass score in history. Alongside Canadian drum corps innovator, Corey Pearce, George is actively instructing and consulting for various marching arts ensembles throughout Ontario and New York State.
 
George considers himself very blessed to have been mentored by distinguished Lead trumpet players such as Jason Logue, Dave Dunlop, and Roland Garceau.
 
"It's about living life to the fullest, laughing with your friends and family, and loving the people around you. It's also about getting better at playing trumpet everyday...!" ~ George Murga

Saxophonist Patrick Smith was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. Relocating to Toronto in 2013, he has worked in many musical styles from traditional swing, to open form piece, original modern jazz, funk, pop, rock. An active bandleader, Patrick currently leads three of his own groups. Pat Smith Quartet is a modern jazz quartet that plays original music and creative arrangements of other artists’ music, the Pat Smith Standards Trio interprets the classic repertoire of the jazz canon and Shadow Clan is a duo that experiments with open-concept improvisation. His wide skill-set has also led performances at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, and the Toronto Jazz Festival. For the last two years he has been studying saxophone under esteemed saxophonist Mike Murley. He has performed as an opening act for artists such as Chick Corea, Brian Blade and Seamus Blake and has played and recorded with artists such as jazz legend Dave Liebman, Mike Holober Chelsea Mcbride, Ken Macdonald, Brother Levon, Baseless Trio, The Folk Jazz Project, Art the Band, Carmel Freeman and many more. 

Contact at patrick.smith628@gmail.com or 613-697-8774

(Ali Berkok - piano/accordion, Pete Johnston - bass, Jake Oelrichs - drums/percussion, Mike Smith - electronics) Formed in the autumn of 2012, these musicians have played with each other in various combinations in numerous groups in Toronto over the last ten years, including Muskox, Arkana Music, See Through Trio, and the Toronto Jazz Orchestra. This quartet emerged out of a shared desire to create extended improvised musical structures in which the instruments would function as equal partners in the ensemble texture. Drawing on a range of influences including jazz, dub reggae, American minimalism, electronic music, and punk rock, Aurochs seeks to expand the traditional palette associated with this instrumentation. To this end, Aurochs focuses on developing sustained, gradually unfolding ensemble improvisations. Aurochs's wide open approach to music-making means that they never end up with the same song structure twice.
You can catch Aurochs playing at the Tranzac on the final Friday of every month, at 7:30p.m.

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a modern jazz trio from toronto, canada
justin orok / ben heard / keagan eskritt

The brand-new single "The Void" coming shortly.

Trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist.

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