Jake Langley Trio

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The Trio's performance is accompanied by a workshop/clinic from 4-5:15pm at the Long & McQuade Music Education Centre. Please see the workshop tab for more info.

New York based, Canadian guitarist Jake Langley, has been gaining international attention in the past four years while touring as part of the world renowned Joey Defrancesco Trio. Langley has won the National Jazz Award as “Guitarist of the Year” for the years 2004 – 2006 and was nominated for a 2007 Juno Award for “Best Jazz Recording” for his CD Movin' and Groovin. He has appeared on over 100 other recordings and performed with a wide cross-section of leaders from blues-man Bobby “Blues” Bland and David Clayton to jazz stars Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Hutcherson, Jimmy McGriff and James Moody. As a leader of his own trio, Jake has recorded four CD's: Doug's Garage, Non Fiction, Diggin In and most recently Movin’ and Groovin. The titles Movin and Groovin and Diggin In aptly describe the character of his classic guitar/organ jazz sound. Langley is touring Canada this fall with fellow Canadian expatriates, drummer Ian Froman and keyboard player Sam Yahel.

Yahel has been acknowledged four times as the “#1 Rising Star Organist” in Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Poll. He has had a high profile career, playing and recording with the likes of Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux, and in a more muscular fashion for several years with Joshua Redman, Maceo Parker and Bill Frisell.

Ian Froman is a seasoned creative and working musician who moved to the US from Ottawa, where he began playing drums in his early teens. Froman has received two Juno Awards (1998, 1999), two Jazz Report Magazine awards (1998, 1999) and a West Coast Music Award (1998) for his work with the Canadian group Metalwood.