The Brodie West Quintet
CANADIAN TOUR DATES
Fall 2024
OCT 10
Sackville NB
@ Greenslades
OCT 11
Halifax NS
@ The Music Room
Presented by Upstream Music
OCT 11
Halifax NS
@ Dalhousie University Workshop
Oct 26
Calgary AB
@ Highline Brewery
Oct 27
Edmonton AB
@ The Yardbird Suite Matinee
Oct 28
Edmonton AB
@ U of A Workshop
Oct 29
Victoria BC
@ James Bay United Church
Oct 30
Duncan BC
@ The Showroom
Oct 31
Nanaimo BC
@ The Nanaimo Music Conservatory
Nov 1
Gabriola Island
@ The Phoenix Concert Hall
presented by Lulu Arts
Nov 2
Vancouver BC
@ Ironworks
presented by Coastal Jazz
Nov 13
Toronto ON
@ Tranzac Club
This tour is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts
Meadow of Dreams
Brodie West alto saxophone
Tania Gill piano
Josh Cole bass
Nick Fraser drums
Evan Cartwright drums
Produced by Brodie West and Matt Smith
Recorded at Canterbury Studio Feb 29/March 1&2, 2020 by Jeremy Darby and Julian Decorte. Mixed by Matt Smith
Mastered by Jeff McMurrich
Design by Alex Durlak
Ansible Editions/Astral Spirits 2022
Clips
Brodie West alto saxophone
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 Decorte
Mixed by Matt Smith
Mastered by Fedge
LORNA 011
17 Ep
Brodie West alto-saxophone
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
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!