The Brodie West Quintet
West’s quintet makes a strong case for the creative potential and emotional persuasiveness of idiomatically syntonic post-bop jazz.
Bill Meyer
The Wire, March 2022
This is exciting, eventful music of the highest quality […] Defying conventional wisdom, perhaps, Brodie West’s music is complex, creative and loose.
Andy Hamilton
The Wire, November 2018
A groove-driven percussive web, one where complexity is derived from simplicity with plenty of twists. It’s an enchanting, avant-garde mix to dig into.
Downbeat, April 2022
West is among the most creative figures in Canadian music, reconstituting long-running conventions into musical puzzles as engaging as they are disruptive.
Stuart Broomer
thewholenote, March 2022
…a complex momentum that seemingly reviews the jazz language of the 1950s, but which is oddly and absolutely contemporary.
Stuart Broomer
Musicworks
First and foremost: this is a jazz album, the way jazz was intended: "the sound of surprise”…. as serious as they come, yet goes straight to the heart…
Nilan Perera
Exclaim!
Meadow of Dreams
Brodie West alto saxophone, compositions
Tania Gill piano
Josh Cole bass
Nick Fraser drums
Evan Cartwright drums
Produced by Brodie West and Matt Smith
Recorded at Canterbury Studio March/April 2020 by
Jeremy Darby and Julian Decourte
Mixed by Matt Smith
Mastered by Jeff McMurrich
Design by Alex Durlak
Ansible Editions/Astral Spirits
released March 2022
Clips
Brodie West alto saxophone, compositions
Tania Gill piano
Josh Cole bass
Nick Fraser drums
Evan Cartwright drums
Artwork by Sandy Plotnikoff
Recorded at Canterbury Studio Feb 19/20 2018 by Jeremy Darby and Julian Decourte
Mixed by Matt Smith
Mastered by Fedge
LORNA 011
17 Ep
Brodie West alto-saxophone, compositions
Tania Gill piano
Josh Cole bass
Nick Fraser drums
Evan Cartwright drums
Recorded at the Tranzac March 27/28 2017
Recorded and Mastered by Fedge
LORNA 09
video
Video by Chris Boni
Photo Martin Reis