Dave Young Quartet

with Kevin Turcotte, trumpet; Robi Botos, piano or Reg Schwager, guitar; Terry Clarke, drums

Jazz at the Woodyard
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Historic Logging Museum

Dave Young is a quiet, deferential man with a twinkle in his eye. But with a deeply burnished double bass fiddle in his hands he can suddenly and miraculously channel the true and authentic spirit of jazz, accessing endless reserves of melodic and rhythmic invention. For this, he's a multiple winner of National Jazz Award's "Bassist of the Year" and has been named Member of The Order of Canada.

  The Dave Young Quartet features very special artists (each with a prominent career); but if we could magically bring all Dave's friends and on-stage collaborators over the years here too we could really fill the Logging Museum. Can you imagine Oscar Peterson (with whom Dave enjoyed a decades-long musical relationship), Clark Terry, "Sweets" Edison, Zoot Sims, Joe Williams, Oliver Jones, Kenny Burrell, Hank Jones, Gary Burton, Rob McConnell, Barney Kessel and James Moody all crammed on our stage? We’re talking jazz Royalty here, folks! And let's not forget Lenny Breau, because one of Dave’s most beloved gigs was a five-year stint as a member of that iconic jazz guitarist's quartet.

Dave Young's many CDs include the recently issued Mean What You Say and the JUNO-winning Fables and Dreams (with co-leader Phil Dwyer), as well as Two by Two - Volumes 1 & 2, which feature Dave in duet performances with jazz legends such as Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Mulgrew Miller, Tommy Flanagan, Ellis Marsalis, Kenny Barron and Oliver Jones.

Come to the concert. Sit close.