Guido Basso

Guido Basso ( born September 27, 1937 in Montreal ) is a Canadian jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, harmonica, orchestra conductor ), arranger and composer.

Life and work

Basso started at the age of nine, playing the trumpet. During his studies at the Conservatoire de musique du Quebec, he was discovered by Vic Damone, with the two years he was on an international tour. 1958 Louis Bellson brought him to join his band, to which he belonged for three years and Pearl Bailey accompanied them. Then he became a studio musician in Toronto; 1963-1967 he was the musical director of the local television station CBLT. He was a founding member of Rob McConnell The Boss Brass and can be heard as the trumpet soloist on more than 30 albums.

Since 1975, he organized and led big band concerts in Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition, failing with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. Since the late 1970s he has produced his own albums with his orchestra; He has also recorded with Ron Collier, Phil Nimmons, Peter Appleyard, Jerry Toth, Moe Koffman, Ed Bickert, Buddy Rich, Oliver Jones, Carol Welsman, Gene Lees, Diana Krall, Emilie- Claire Barlow, Sophie Milman and Diana Panton.

Prizes and awards

Basso was in 1994 awarded the Order of Canada. For his album Turn Out the Stars, he received a 2003 Juno Award; in the following year, his album Lost in the Stars won the " Traditional Jazz Album of the Year " with a Juno Award.