Over the last three years, Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks have become one of the top acts in the Canadian Jazz scene. Alongside songwriting and piano partner, Ewen Farncombe, Bird is creating timeless and heartfelt originals for a modern audience. This talented team has spent their time producing something that is completely unique, three original albums in three years.
2022 brought JUNO nominations, reviews from around the world, and even the crafting of "Canada's Thanksgiving Anthem", “The Sweetest Moments”, which was broadcast across the country with a national ad campaign, and interviews on CBC, CityTV, and many other news outlets. To cap off 2022, Bird and Farncombe released a surprise duo album of 11 originals entitled, "Songwriter". Kira Grunenberg at DownBeat Magazine wrote of the album, "Impassioned messages sung and played from one’s heart but worn on a well-dressed sleeve. Songwriter is an elegant, romantic, and well-executed gem of a record."
Alex literally grew up with the classics. As a young boy he was taken to hang around the Toronto jazz scene and had the opportunity to see and meet many of the greats along the way; Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Oscar Peterson, Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Cleo Laine...the list goes on. Without even knowing it, his musical training developed, sitting around at smoky jazz clubs into the wee small hours of the morning.
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