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Reg Schwager

Reg Schwager is a Canadian jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and bandleader whose career spans leader recordings, vocal partnerships, and major Canadian ensembles.

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Career Overview

About Reg Schwager

The Canadian Encyclopedia traces Schwager’s development from childhood study in New Zealand and Sudbury to Toronto jazz work beginning in the late 1970s. It documents a career as guitarist and composer across small groups, orchestras, vocal partnerships, and more than one hundred recorded guest or session appearances.[2]

Schwager’s official site links his biography, label, video, Spotify, and SoundCloud archives. The documented leader catalog begins with Resonance and continues through Border Town, trio improvisations, song-based projects, and later recordings under his own name.[1][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, guitarist, and composer

Reg Schwager leader groups

The Canadian Encyclopedia documents albums under Schwager’s name in solo, trio, and ensemble settings.[2][1]

Guitarist, composer, and arranger

Jeannette Lambert collaborations

Schwager has written vocal jazz material with his sister and performed standards with her since their youth.[2]

Guitarist and sideman

Canadian and international ensembles

His biography records sustained work with George Shearing, the Dave McMurdo Jazz Orchestra, and leading singers and instrumentalists.[2]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1986 · Justin Time Records

Resonance

Leader, guitarist, and composer

The Canadian Encyclopedia identifies Resonance as Schwager’s debut album under his own name.[2]

Release details

1997

Border Town

Leader and guitarist

This release appears in the representative leader discography documented by the Canadian biography.[2]

Release details

2017

Songbook

Leader, guitarist, and composer

Songbook represents Schwager’s writing and guitar work in the later portion of his documented catalog.[2][1]

Release details

Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Reg Schwager on Spotify

Browse the guitarist’s canonical streaming catalog linked directly from his official site.

Official SoundCloud

Hear recordings and works shared through Schwager’s artist-linked audio account.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Reg Schwager. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official links to biography, recordings, and media

    Reg Schwager

  2. [2] Career biography and selected leader discography

    The Canadian Encyclopedia