RIP Guido Basso

[Doug Elliott]

And yet another one is gone.

https://jazz.fm/guido-basso-obituary-ca ... -musician/

[Cmillar]

Sad to hear.

For anybody growing up in Canada from the 1960's through the 80's, the sound of Basso and his fellow musicians in Toronto (which were basically the members of the 'Boss Brass' big band with the likes of Moe Koffman, Terry Clark, Ian McDougall, Arnie Chycoski, etc. etc.) were 'in our ears' all the time.

They did all the national TV work with CBC for all the live music shows happening all the time (like....all the time!) and showed up in all the cities, towns, in the touring industrial show/convention bands that 'the rest of us' got to play in who happened to live outside of Toronto. We got to meet and play with people like Basso and others that inspired everyone and kept the musical standards very high all across the country, and when some of us got to actually live in Toronto and play with these people it was like getting called up to play in the NHL!

What a sound. His flugelhorn playing is 'the standard'.

RIP.

[Kbiggs]

Bummer. I remember growing up listening to some of his playing. My oldest brother was a trumpet player in high school and, for a time, a big jazz fan. He had a large-ish LP collection, and even had a jazz radio broadcast at college. He had a lot of trumpet and flugel soloists: Guido, Clark Terry, Hugh Masekela, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Art Farmer—all greats, now gone.

[AndrewMeronek]

Also featuring trombonist Teddy Roderman and Rob McConnell as the arranger.

[Bach5G]

Also featuring trombonist Teddy Roderman and Rob McConnell as the arranger.

Quick clip of Ed Bickert on guitar.