The Amanda Tosoff Quartet is bringing the jazz to the Slice, Sept. 28.
“I’ve been playing for about 15 years. I went to a high school with a great jazz program, which made me realize I could do this for a living,” said the pianist and band leader, Tosoff, who’s group won the General Motors Grand Priz de Jazz in Montreal last year. She will be bringing saxophionist Chris Gale, bassist Sean Cronin and drummer Morgan Childs. She will be playing Fender Rhodes organ and piano, thiough she also played trumpet and flute when still in high school.
The White Rock B.C. raised musician recently relocated to Toronto and immersed herself in the thriving jazz scene there.
“Toronto is great. There are a lot of fantastic players,” she said adding she is looking foreward to playing Lethbridge for the first time with her new CD “Looking North.”
“They are original compositions. There is a real variety,” she described.
“When composing, I’m influenced a lot by Duke Ellington,” she said adding the show will include a mixture of twentieth century classic jazz to more pop material a mixture of music from twentieth century classic jazz to original compositions.
“There will be a real variety from African grooves to staight ahead jazz,” Tosoff said adding she chose nine of her compositions for the CD and created an arrangement for a four horn horn section including some fine guests including trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, trombonist William Carn and saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist and piccolo player Kelly Jefferson.
— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor
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