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Reliable Parts is an improvising trio featuring two west coast creative music veterans -- guitarist Jared Burrows and bassist Clyde Reed -- with Toronto drummer and percussionist Joe Sorbara.
Jared Burrows
Jared Burrows is a guitarist and composer in Vancouver, Canada. His music draws on jazz, free improvisation, and from the traditional musics of India and West Africa. He leads the Jared Burrows Quartet, and Sextet, the Vancouver Improviser's Orchestra, and is involved with many other ensembles in the Vancouver area including: Thunder Lizard, Dave Robbins' Electric Band, Brad Muirhead 4, Colin MacDonald's Pocket Orchestra, Gare de Lyon, Len Aruliah Quintet, Michael Vlatkovich Quintet, and the Offering of Curtis Andrews. Jared's work includes many cross-cultural collaborations in performance, composition, and education, including long-term projects with Carnatic singer, Dr. Vidyasagar Vankayala, and Ghanaian drummer and educator, Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo. Recent performance highlights include concerts and recordings with mrdangam maestro, Sri Trichy Sankaran, and with legendary Los Angeles reed player, Vinny Golia. Clyde Reed
Canadian bassist, Clyde Reed, is a long-standing member of the creative music scenes in Vancouver, Portland, and Seattle. A founding member of New Orchestra Workshop Society, he can be heard on many of their recordings, including those featuring guests Marilyn Crispell, Barry Guy, George Lewis, and Renee Lusier. He has also played and recorded frequently with Nikki Carter, Bruce Freedman, Rich Halley, and Paul Plimley. Reed is regularly invited to perform at international jazz festivals in North America and Europe including the Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Chicago, Penofin (California), Bumbershoot (Seattle), Earshot (Seattle), Berlin, and Lisbon Jazz Festivals. His long-term collaborators include Bobby Bradford, Jared Burrows, Nikki Carter, Bruce Freedman, Vinny Golia, Rich Halley, George Lewis, Kenton Loewen, Paul Plimley, Claude Ranger, Dylan van der Schyff, Joe Sorbara, and Michael Vlatkovich. Joe Sorbara
Canadian drummer and percussionist Joe Sorbara has spent nearly two decades developing a reputation as an imaginative and dedicated performer, composer, improviser, organizer, and educator throughout the extraordinary creative music communities in and around his home in Toronto, Canada. Joe and his family recently made a temporary move west to Vancouver where he spent two years getting to know many of the west coast’s most adventurous musicians. Sorbara is a highly inventive musician who has played and recorded with the AIMToronto Orchestra, Ken Aldcroft, Jared Burrows, Anthony Braxton, François Houle, Evan Parker, Allen Ravenstine, Clyde Reed, and Friendly Rich as well as with his own projects including The Imperative, Other Foot First, Reliable Parts, Remnants Trio, My Misshapen Ear, Mars People, and the Imaginary Percussion Ensemble. He is equally comfortable playing jazz, free improvised music, indie rock, and chamber music; but is most at home when playing them all at the same time. |
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