Centrediscs issues its first jazz compact disc. This issue in the Canadian Composers Portraits series features the life and music of legendary Canadian jazz musician and composer Phil Nimmons. Recorded live in Toronto at the Montreal Bistro, the Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra performs hot new sessions of many of Phil’s classic works.
This recording is part of the Centrediscs’ Canadian Composers Portraits series which documents the emergence of a generation of pioneering professional composers who firmly established Canada’s place on the world’s musical map. Each release in this retrospective of the last fifty years is dedicated to a single composer and uniquely combines full-length documentaries on the composers’ lives and music, as well as a selection of their most important works. “Each of the performances is exceptionally well done, with precision and strong emotional presence.”