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Chris Andrew

Since graduating from Grant MacEwan College in 1990, Chris has become a key player in the Alberta music scene. His musical diversity can be seen through his numerous performances over the years in genres such as jazz, funk, pop, latin, or musical theatre. He has studied in Cuba and has toured across Canada countless times in a number of bands in various musical styles.

Although well known as a jazz educator in Alberta, Chris is best known for his ability to play. In the jazz vein, Chris’ resume lists a veritable who’s who of jazz. Chris has performed with Joshua Redman, Sonny fortune, Bud Shank, Pete Christlieb, Joe LaBarbera, P.J. Perry, Kirk MacDonald, Paquito D’Rivera, Brad Turner, and Steve Wallace just to name some highlights. On the local scene, Chris has performed or recorded with numerous well known groups including The Jump Orchestra, Maracujah, Bomba, Kelly Allana, Tim Tamashiro, The Swinging Bovines, The Edmonton Symphony, Phatty, and The Devoties. Chris spent the first half of 2005 as the musical director for the Decidedly Jazz Danceworks show: ?BULLA!, in which the song ‘3 Corners of Emotion’ from the Hutchinson Andrew Trio was featured. Chris has recently been honoured with the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award for his virtuosic talent.

Awards

2013 Montreal International Jazz Festival TD Grand Jazz Award 2013 City of Edmonton Arts and Culture Performance Award 2011 Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 2008 National Jazz Awards Rising Star Award 2004 CBC Galaxie Rising Star Awarded to BOMBA Hutchinson Andrew Trio Prairie Modern (2013) Nominated for Best Jazz Recording (WCMA) Chris Andrew Strange Days (2011) Nominated for Best Jazz Recording (WCMA) Hutchinson Andrew Trio Music Box (2008) Nominated for Best Jazz Recording (WCMA) Hutchinson Andrew Trio Lost but not forgotten (2004) Nominated for Best Jazz Recording (WCMA)


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PJ Perry: No Hugs

Read "No Hugs" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The title of Canadian alto saxophone maestro PJ Perry's album does not mean that Perry wants No Hugs, rather that the Covid pandemic that arrived in 2020 meant there would be “no hugs" between Perry and his beloved grandson, Atticus, in the “big brown chair" that served as their hangout until the quarantine was over. On the plus side, it gave Perry and longtime friend and colleague, bassist Neil Swainson, ample time to work together on new material, the result ...

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PJ Perry: No Hugs

Read "No Hugs" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


PJ Perry is a survivor. Now, in 2022, eighty-one years old, he has been playing saxophone since he was fourteen, when he joined his father's dance band as a baritone saxophonist. During the course of his lengthy career, he has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and a couple of European cities, before settling in Edmonton, Alberta. As a technically accomplished and eloquent alto saxophonist, he has played with the likes of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass, Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton and ...

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Bent River Records
2022

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Cellar Music Group
2022

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Self Produced
2009

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