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Mark Mclean Featuring Wade o. Brown at TD Toronto Jazz Festival at Jazz Bistro

Courtesy of Jazz Bistro | Posted on June 6, 2014

Where

Jazz Bistro
TD Toronto Jazz Festival

251 Victoria Street
Toronto
Map
416-363-5299

When

Sat, June 21, 2014
20:00

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Musicians

About

One of the most dynamic and versatile studio and touring drummers in the jazz, R&B and pop realms over the past 15 years, Mark McLean had a single criterion when it came time to expand his horizons beyond the groove and record his long awaited breakout as a powerhouse composer and lyricist: it had to Feel Alright.

In an industry that often prefers pigeonholing to expansive creative expression, the multi-talented artist – whose credo is “I don’t want to be seen as a drummer, I want to be known as a musician whose instrument just happens to be drums” – breaks all the rules on this eclectic 11 track set, sharing his love for everything from old school soul, down and dirty blues/funk and traditional jazz to Southern folk-pop with a zydeco twist, Rat Pack-like swing, edgy pop/rock and New Orleans brass band music....

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