John Macleod's Rex Hotel Orchestra

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John Macleod's Rex Hotel Orchestra september 28 @ 8:00 PM Led by John Macleod - Trumpet / Flugelhorn 20-piece Juno Award-winning Jazz Big Band Canada’s Finest Big Band Jazz Ensemble tickets coming soon! The life and career of John MacLeod is intricately bound to the history of jazz and big band music in Toronto. A native of this city, he took a very early interest in jazz and by the time he began studying the trumpet at age 12 was already an aficionado of New Orleans, Chicago and swing styles of the music. His earliest local hero was trumpeter "Trump" Davidson and by his early teens he was attending t.v. recording sessions where he would be amazed by studio greats such as Guido Basso, Moe Koffman and Teddy Roderman. A decade later, John would be playing with many of these early heros. In fact he would have professional involvement with every name listed in this release from Benny Louis t