a bit 'o' news... ...a whole wack 'o' NEW tour dates here! There will be a rare solo J Zubot performance at the upcoming Vancouver International Jazz Festival at The Electric Owl on June 25th! Details here! JZ will be playing live to the 1922 silent film, 'Nanook Of The North', at the Northern Scene Festival in Ottawa on May 5 in 2013 with miss Tanya Tagaq and Jean Martin. Along for the ride will be a soundscore created by Juno Award winning composer Derek Charke! JZ will be touring live behind the 1923 silent film, 'The Grub-Stake', this May in Calgary, Ottawa's Northern Scene Festival and at Toronto's TIFF Lightbox Theatre! The musical director/composer for these performances is Whitehorse's Daniel Janke. Check the tour page for exact dates!! Songlines has released the debut recording by Haram, led by Gord Grdina! The 10-piece band features a combo of some of Vancouver's more prominent improvising & Arabic musicians. JZ takes the chair of the violinist on this one! Here's a review from All About Jazz! JZ recently worked on albums (violin, viola & some cello parts) for the likes of Stars, Mother Mother & The Crackling. Victo Records recently released a CD of a live performance with Tanya Tagaq at the 2010 Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville! The album also has JZ on violin/viola & Jean Martin on the drumkit! You can get a copy for yourself directly from here, or from Actuelle CD! Here are some reviews of the album! ...some of JZ's string stuff appears on the current Dan Mangan recording 'Oh Fortune' (2 time Juno Award Winner)! Check it out, it's a great record! ...here are some live reviews of the Dawson City Music Festival! Tanya Tagaq's was hailed as "a 40-minute piece of improvisation that was intimate, sensual, terrifying, beautiful, ugly, shrieking and cathartic." by Exclaim! and a "remarkable performance" by The Line of Best Fit! Here is JZ's incomplete, but pretty good, discography at allmusic.com! Take 'er easy.
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