Search

Keywords

Content Type



This project was made possible by funding through the Canadian Culture Online Strategy and the Heritage Policy Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Canadian Heritage

Mike Malone

Biography

MICHAEL (MIKE) MALONE (trumpeter, composer, arranger) has been part of the Canadian jazz music scene since the early 1970s. He is a key member of the jazz studies faculty at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, serves as a clinician for Yamaha Music Canada, and conducts Improvisation Workshops at York University in Toronto.

Malone is featured as both a writer and performer with singer Ranee Lee, Nimmons ‘n’ Nine Plus Six, the Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra, Ted’s Warren Commission, the Alex Dean Quintet, The Brass Connection, the Kieran Overs Nonet, and the Ted Moses Quintet.

Mike Malone was a featured trumpet player in eight separate “Sound of Toronto Jazz” Concerts at the Ontario Science Centre between 1977 and 1995.