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Mike Rud is a Juno Award-winning guitarist and composer, who has performed alongside such musicians as Herb Ellis and Joey DeFrancesco. In New York City in 1996, Mike studied with the great Jim Hall and recorded his debut album featuring Jorge Rossy, Joe Martin, Bill McHenry, and John Stetch. More recently, Mike renewed his connection with great American jazz guitarists, performing with John Stowell, Chris Flory, and of course Peter Bernstein, who Mike has known since 1992.

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Mike Rud: Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein

Read "Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud Trio Invites Peter Bernstein" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Calling guitarist Mike Rud one of the best kept secrets on his instrument is only a bit off the mark. Rud's Notes on Montreal (Self Produced) took home a Juno Award, after all, so his presence has most certainly been felt in his native Canada. Yet his work and name haven't traveled like they should, making a bigger mark below and beyond his homeland. Whether painting with thematic tones as a leader, serving as a sideman with pianist Peter Hum, ...

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Peter Hum: Ordinary Heroes

Read "Ordinary Heroes" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Canadian jazz pianist Peter Hum has been a fixture and mainstay on the Ottawa jazz scene for three decades. A journalist by profession, covering education, crime and city hall for the Ottawa Citizen, a social conscious and music, have always been driving forces in his life. His third album as leader, Ordinary Heroes contains ten original compositions all inspired by his social and political concerns in today's society and, as such, is dedicated to those to whom we all owe ...

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Peter Hum: Ordinary Heroes

Read "Ordinary Heroes" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The ideals of promise and hope, and the desire to create a better world and drive out the darkness, need not be fueled or forwarded by the extraordinary. As George Takei, the legendary actor-cum-activist once noted in referencing the individuals who provided succor during the horrors of the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, it's often the “ordinary heroes" who light the way. Taking inspiration from Takei's words, pianist Peter Hum uses his third album as ...

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Mike Rud: Miniatures

Read "Miniatures" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


What to do, what to do, what to do? That question must always be swimming around the mind of the creative performer. And for those who reap some sort of critical success with their work, it's magnified, as the listening public, no doubt, also ponders the next move. When faced with this endless sea of choice, many in said position try to outdo their previous successes, going bigger and broader in scope or retreading over the ground of their prize-winning ...

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Mike Rud: Notes On Montreal

Read "Notes On Montreal" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Do you have to be intimately familiar with a specific locale and its literary representations and intimates in order to appreciate music that's inextricably linked to it? Guitarist Mike Rud's Notes On Montreal raises that question, but it's a question that can never truly be answered. For it's up to each individual artist to find a way to appeal to in-the-know audiences while also catering to a broader segment of people who may know little or nothing about the place(s) ...

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Mike Rud: Live From Lotusland

Read "Live From Lotusland" reviewed by Stephen Latessa


Canadian guitarist Mike Rud is a player of great touch and lyricism. Live From Lotusland features nine tracks recorded at CBC studios in Vancouver from 2002-04. The music within is highly melodic and inviting, featuring musicians who are clearly at ease with each other.

Ray Brown's great “Blues For Junior is given a magnificent reading as a duet for bass and guitar. Russ Botten's bass lopes along amiably like an elephant trudging through the heat while Rud's guitar ...

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“…[Notes on Montreal is] a deeply ambitious project to be sure, but it’s also a resounding success, establishing Rud not simply as a first-rate jazz guitarist but as a formidable songwriter and distinctive Canadian artist with a compelling vision to share.” –Peter Hum, The Ottawa Citizen, jazzblog.ca

“The biggest surprise for me at the 2016 Montreal Jazz Fest was Mike Rud. I went to the Upstairs Jazz Club to see Peter Bernstein,…Mike proved to be the real deal, more than equal to the challenge of working with Bernstein, whom I’d last seen in Montreal with Sonny Rollins…Since then I’ve listened attentively to the wonderful variety of music he’s recorded, including his new voice-and-guitar album Miniatures, which I’ve had the pleasure of sharing with my listeners on New England Public Radio.” –Tom Reney, Jazz a la Mode on New England Public Radio, Springfield, Massachusetts

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Shifting Sands

Self Produced
2021

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Ordinary Heroes

Self Produced
2020

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Salome's Dance: The...

Bent River Records
2020

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Miniatures

Self Produced
2015

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Notes On Montreal

Self Produced
2014

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Live From Lotusland

Cellar Live
2005

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Salome's Dance

From: Salome's Dance: The Mike Rud...
By Mike Rud

Spare Hearts

From: Ordinary Heroes
By Mike Rud

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