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Chase Sanborn

Biography

CHASE SANBORN (trumpeter, flugelhornist) was born on September 3, 1956 in Summit, New Jersey, U.S.A. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. A veteran session musician, he has played on hundreds of commercial recording dates and logged many hours in the orchestra pit for Broadway musicals. For some time he was a member of the Ray Charles Orchestra and has appeared with a lengthy list of jazz and pop artists including Aretha Franklin and Diana Krall.

Based in Toronto since 1981, Sanborn has become a mainstay of the Toronto jazz scene, both as a player and educator. He is a long-time columnist for Canadian Music magazine, and a contributor to a variety of music-related publications.

To date, he has released five albums under his own name including his the latest, Double Double, featuring duets with pianist Mark Eisenman. Reviewing his previous release, Perking Up, Toronto Star jazz critic Geoff Chapman wrote, “Chase Sanborn’s latest disc is illuminated by sublime statements and moments of aching poignancy. Creativity is front and center here.”

Sanborn joined the jazz faculty at the University of Toronto in the mid 1990s and appears throughout North America as a clinician and guest artist. His instructional books, CDs and DVDs - Jazz Tactics, Brass Tactics, Tuning Tactics - are used widely and are noted for their entertaining approach to playing and teaching music.