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Jeff Goodspeed
Jeff is a member of The Goodspeed/Staples Quartet, winners of the 1995 East Coast Music Award for Best Jazz Recording. As a freelance performer on saxophone, clarinet and flute for the past twenty years, he has accompanied world class artists such as Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, Shirely MacLaine, Natalie Cole and many more. As a woodwind doubler in Toronto, Jeff played with the orchestras for Cats, Durante the Musical, Crazy For You, Guido Basso and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He spent two years with Roger Whittaker and three years with the RCMP Band. Today Jeff is active as a jazz performer and teacher in Nova Scotia and a consultant with Music Stop in Halifax. He is co-founder of the Nova Scotia Honour Jazz program founded in 1993
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Bobby Herriot
Bobby is truly a great contributor to the development of Canadian band music at the educational, community and professional levels. Noted for his brilliant wit, good nature and always accurate adjudication. He is also a composer, arranger and outstanding performer. Originally from Edinburgh Scotland he is a graduate of The Royal Military School of Music, The Royal Academy and The Royal College of Music. In addition to his service with the British Army, The Canadian Forces and the NORAD Band, Bobby has performed with many of the great jazz bands of North America, as well as with symphony orchestras, dance bands, theatre orchestras, and in the recording studios of Vancouver, Toronto, New York and L.A. His current activities include being the president of the Toronto Musicians Association, Festival Consultant to the DuMaurier Arts Ltd. Jazz Festival, and the conductor of the newly formed Greater Toronto Teachers' Wind Ensemble. He recently retired from the Reserve Forces with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. |
Paul Read
Paul is a graduate of University of Toronto's Bachelor of Music Education Program. His post graduate studies were at Berklee College of Jazz in Boston. Subsequently Paul established with his outstanding Secondary School jazz ensembles a fine reputation as a director and adjudicator. Later Paul was on staff with the Humber College Jazz Program and became program director in the early eighties. In 1991 Paul was asked to establish and head the jazz degree program at University of Toronto. In addition to his wide experience as an adjudicator and clinician, Paul directs the National Music Camp Summer Jazz Program and manages also to perform professionally on piano and saxophone. He and jazz singer Trish Coulter have recently released an album titled the Dance Never Ends.
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