Home » Jazz Musicians » Harry Vetro
Harry Vetro
In 2017, as Canada celebrated 150 years of confederation, Vetro traveled coast to coast, visiting communities in Canada's six Indigenous cultural areas (Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands) in an effort to connect with musicians and artists from different cultural backgrounds, and to better understand the land's long cultural history.
As a composer, Vetro utilizes traditional roots and new perspectives in the growing genre of contemporary jazz music. NORTHERN RANGER, Vetro’s debut album tells the story of his travels. Vetro melded his own style of improvised jazz with folk and classical influences to create a deeply personal statement, one that speaks to the country as a whole. Vetro’s album is currently fourth on the National Jazz charts in Canada and continues to gain international airplay from NYC. USA, to Toronto and across Canada.
Tags
The Harry Bartlett Trio: Wildwood
by Dan McClenaghan
The Harry Bartlett Trio's Wildwood twangs like something coming out of West Texas. The instrumentation is guitar, bass and drums, pure and simple. The opener, Burgess Falls," might suggest a wide open desert landscape in the U.S.A.'s southwest, but the real Burgess Falls is located in Tennessee, where good country music can be found. As suggested by the opener, in part Bartlett's style is rooted in American folk and Western music sounds, but it also embraces jazz and improvisation.
read moreHarry Vetro: Harry Vetro's Northern Ranger
by Dan Bilawsky
Through this debut release, Canadian drummer Harry Vetro taps into his homeland to present a series of wayfaring wonders. It's both a testament to his wandering spirit and an exploration of the Great White North's virtues as measured in nature and man. As 2017 marked the sesquicentennial celebration of Canada's confederation, Vetro saw fit to celebrate the moment by setting off on a journey across the country's vast lands. His travels took him to the six indigenous ...
read moreHarry Vetro’s New CD
Source:
Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The young Canadian drummer Harry Vetro has followed his debut album as a leader, Northern Ranger, with a shorter CD of four tracks. The new album has a similar title, Eastern Stranger, but perhaps that won’t create confusion among Vetro devotees. As in his first recording, the music reflects the influence of the drummer-composer’s nationality. It also captures a bit of the whimsy that occasionally peeped through the seriousness of the writing for strings on Vetro’s initial CD. Indeed, whimsy ...
read more
Recent Listening: Harry Vetro’s Northern Ranger
Source:
Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Recent Listening: Harry Vetro’s Northern Ranger A generation of Canadian musicians is coming to prominence in their youth and making substantial impressions. One is drummer Harry Vetro. After he was graduated from the University of Toronto Jazz Program, the 23-year-old spent much of last year exploring his country as it celebrated its 150th year of nationhood. He spent time in what he calls Canada’s six indigenous cultural areas—Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains and Eastern Woodlands. He gathered impressions of ...
read more
Music
Quidi Vidi Ditty
From: Eastern StrangerBy Harry Vetro
Northern Ranger
From: Harry Vetro's Northern RangerBy Harry Vetro
Buffalo Jump
From: Harry Vetro's Northern RangerBy Harry Vetro
Buffalo Jump
From: Harry Vetro's Northern RangerBy Harry Vetro