Mike Herriott Toronto Big Band

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Mike Herriott Toronto Big Band October 18 & 19 @ 8:00 PM 16 piece band, all brass and rhythm BUY TICKETS! Tales of Tricksters and Vagabonds is an original programmatic work for large jazz ensemble, drawn from Mike Herriott's 2023 album of the same name (H&H Records) and rooted in his master's thesis in music composition. The suite portrays six unforgettable figures from folklore and literature — the scheming cat of Puss in Boots, the gold spinning Rumpelstiltskin, Shakespeare's quicksilver Mercutio, Dickens's oily 'Umble Uriah, Dostoevsky's guilt-haunted Rodion's Republic, and the gloriously life-loving Sir Jack (Sir John Falstaff) — moving from the comic to the genuinely sinister and back again across a single evening. The ensemble's instrumentation — brass and rhythm section, with no saxophones — recalls the lineup of Canada's celebrated Boss Brass. Each performance pairs the premiere