Adam Teixeira on drums. Justin Gray on electric bass. Chris Evans on electric guitar.
Influences
Art Blakey, Archie Shepp, James Ulmer, David Murray, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Coleman Hawkins, John McLaughlin, Sonny Sharrock, John Coltrane, Wlliam Parker, Fred Anderson, Grant Green, Ornette Coleman, Guns N Roses, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Derek Bailey, Prince, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonic Youth, Lee Morgan, Billy Harper, Albert King, Wilson Pickett, Bill Withers, Albert Ayler, Lonnie Johnson, Miles Davis. Lots more...
It is my pleasure to introduce you to the creative jazz trio known as The Frontier. Our sound is steeped heavily in the jazz idiom but also reflects our taste for rock and funk. Our music is very unique and displays an affinity for freedom, passion and creativity. We are gaining a healthy following here in Toronto because of that.
Adam Teixeira on drums, Justin Gray on electric bass and Chris Evans on electric guitar make up The Frontier. We met at Humber College, where we all were studying jazz performance. Our unique taste for free jazz and funk-fusion is what set us apart from most of the student body there and is how we found each other. We’ve been exploring new sounds and rhythms together as a trio for just over a year.
As a new group in Toronto, it’s not always easy to break through and get a tonne of attention. However, we’ve been played regularly on The Jazz Zone with Tien Providence (CKLN 88.1FM). Also, we are playing regularly at some of Toronto’s hippest clubs, including Trane Studio, the Gladstone Hotel and NOW Lounge. Our first LP is also in the midst of being mixed and mastered with a tentative release date of ??sooner or later?? So, we’ve only been on the scene for a very short time, but we’re already gaining some notoriety in the Toronto jazz scene for being unique, exciting and always engaging - a group to really look out for this summer.
Finally, we’d like to thank you for checking us out and taking interest in new, creative music.
Hi! How's it going? Hear our debut singles, BURN and MILLIONTH SONG. For fans of Oasis, Radiohead, Foos, Matt Good, City and Colour, Coldplay. Show this Friday in TO!!! Acoustic set @ Legendary BLack Swan (154 Danforth @Broadview) $5 cover ($1 goes to CAMH Research for Mental Health). 9pm... see you there!
come watch us "sell out" to the man this sat. early show, on stage at 9Pm. opening for the marble index. FREE show if you message us for our guest list so do it you crazies.
Please forgive this small mass-message-type comment, but we just want to tell everyone about our latest project: "DIG YOUR ROOTS - CREATIVE JAZZ". Independent artists, CDs, live concerts aired on radio stations . . . it's all quite exciting for us. Come on over to our page to check out all the details.
We'll be back here soon to see what's up with you these days. Feel free to drop us a comment in the meantime.
hey evans, i dont know if you like alcohol or not, but tonight we'll all be at andy pool hall drinking beers and hacking butts and watching ash play. its right up the street from disaster house so come by. also, can we have the afterparty at your house? i'll assume thats a yes! wicked!
Good chillin' with ya, Evs. Look at you, all technical n' shit. So much brain under all that hair. Mysteriously, there's also a lot of hair under your brain. Did you check our video?
Hey Chris. Dig Your Roots is really glad we're friends! We hope you'll come check out our latest artists. A project of the National Campus and Community Radio Association Come check us out at Myspace!
hey Chris. member the pea pod blues review. member burnin a J with Dickson behind The PINEtageuos theater in haliburtin? Dicksons Sax was squealin like a pig!
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