Myself - Guitar
Alec Schulman - Piano
Cole Birney-Stewart - Bass
Louis-Vincent Hamel - Drums

Solo on Inner Urge

From Humber Workshop - Summer 2016. 

James Bayford - Sax
Aidan Funston - Guitar
David Cheon - Guitar
Vincent Compagna - Bass
Dillon Colter - Drums

2017

U.M.M.G

recorded 2 february 2018 at clara lichtenstein hall in montreal, qc
zach fischer - guitar
chris maskell - tenor saxophone
matt choboter - piano
alex leblanc - bass
william machado - drums

Due North

Evi Yan

Sax alto - Chris Edmondston 
Sax ténor - Michael Johancsik
Guitare - Félix Desbiens
Piano - Gentiane Gagnon 
Contrebasse/compo - Alex Le Blanc
Drums - Will Javier Machado

Computer screen/Brain attack

with 

tim watson - guitar/composition
chris seagraves -bass
brahm masla - drums

Salami Count

From Ben Monder's "Day After Day" (4/12/19) on Sunnyside Records.

Creating a distinctive voice and approach on a musical instrument is as difficult as it is rare. Guitarist Ben Monder has long been admired for his personal sound, remarkable command of the guitar, and stylistic versatility. His new recording, Day After Day (a two disc set), provides a look at two distinct sides of his artistic nature, the highly analytical, structural side and the more freely improvisational side, through a series of interpretations of cover material. 

The idea of presenting a collection of arrangements of other composers’ works had long been a goal for Monder, but one that until now had not been realized. In 2014, he was awarded a grant from The Shifting Foundation, and saw this as an opportunity to finally pursue this vision. For a few months he sequestered himself in an apartment in Saugerties, New York, and began the process of writing the arrangements that would ultimately find their way onto this release. Most of the selections are tunes dear to his heart, many taken from records he listened to in childhood.

Monder eventually enlisted longtime friend and collaborator Patrick Zimmerli to act as a sounding board and performance coach for the development of the solo material, and his help turned out to be invaluable, as was his accepting a producer’s role in the recording studio later on. These pieces, beautifully recorded by Joseph Branciforte in April of 2018, would become the first disc of Day After Day.

To round out and balance the project, Monder convened his favorite trio, including bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Ted Poor, at a session at Brooklyn Recording where they spent two days in October 2017 recording a variety of old pop tunes with the aid of master engineer James Farber. Monder would subsequently pare these down to eight pieces, which are presented on the second disc.

Day After Day

Dreamsville

Ben Monder - Dreamsville

Born in Connecticut and raised outside of Philadelphia, guitarist and composer Zach Fischer is a musician to watch on the Montreal jazz scene. Drawn to the guitar at an early age, Fischer has studied guitar with Ben Monder, Reinier Baas, Jesse van Ruller, Greg Clayton and Dave Manley, as well as improvisation in general with Gary Thomas, Pablo Held, Dick Oatts, Gregory Hutchinson, Anthony Tidd and Christine Jensen.
Fischer has performed with some of America and Canada’s finest jazz musicians, including Ambrose Akinmusire, John Hollenbeck, Kevin Dean, Erik Hove, Mike Rud, Jaleel Shaw and John Stowell among others. Zach holds a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance at McGill University, where he received the Seymour Schulich Scholarship for Excellence in Music as well as the David Moyse Scholarship for Excellence in Guitar.

Due North

Zach Fischer

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