Jake Wilkinson - trumpet
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Born in England in 1971, Jake Wilkinson
moved to Denmark at the age of three and came to Canada in 1978. He was
raised in a musical family; his father was a church organist and pianist.
At the age of nine, he began studying slide trombone and played in local
community bands, orchestras and rock groups. At sixteen, while at the
Claude Watson School For The Arts, he developed a more serious interest in
music as a career. After receiving two awards in high school musical
competitions he switched to valve trombone and began working on piano.
During this time he worked around Toronto with Grant Stewart and spent time
sitting in with jazz greats such as Bob Mover
and Don Thompson and studied privately with Rob McConnell.
Beginning in 1990, Jake studied with Joanne Brackeen on a scholarship
at the New School Of Music in New York City. Here he had the opportunity to
play with Larry Willis, Cecil Payne, and pianist for the Joshua Redman group
- Brad Meldhau. He returned to Toronto in 1991 and changed instruments
again - this time to trumpet and the following year spent more time studying
in New York with support from the Canada Council.
Jake works with Bob Mover and Don Thompson in the Toronto Jazz Quartet, the
Norman Marshall Villeneuve Sextet, and his own quintet for whom he preparing
material for a recording session this spring. He has recently recorded with
vocalists Liberty Silver and Priscilla Wright and done numerous recording dates
for the CBC's JazzBeat program. Jake freelances with a number of other bands
around the Toronto area and will be playing with Rob McConnell's Boss Brass.
January 1996
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