BRIAN MURPHY RESUME
MEMORABLE AUDIENCES
The Dalai Lama of Tibet
Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York
Faye Dunaway
Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales
Prince Philip
Bono (U2)
"Windows 95"
Ms. Estee Lauder
Shirley Horn
Democratic National Convention
Congressional Black Caucus
SELECTED JAZZ PERFORMANCES
CONCERTS
-DuMaurier Jazz Festival, Toronto
-Jazz East Festival - Halifax, Nova Scotia
-Imatra Big Band Festival, Imatra, Finland
-San Marino Jazz Club, Tokyo
-Catania and Acireale, Sicily
-Jazz Across the Border, Berlin
-Festival Fringe, Edinburgh
-Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
-Florida Jazz and Swing Club, Boca Raton
ARTISTS
Peter Appleyard - University of Guelph, Ontario
Bob Berg - One Night Stan's, Hollywood, FL
Alan Bergman - Norman Jewison Estate, Caledon, Ontario
Ralph Bowen - Bourbon Street Jazz Club, Toronto
Teddy Charles - Audobon House, Key West
Albert Collins - Albert's Hall,Toronto
Dena DeRose - Colony Hotel, Palm Beach
Jodie Drake - Bellair Cafe, Yorkville
Harry "Sweets" Edison - East 85th Jazz Club, Toronto
Buddy DeFranco - Pensacola Jazz Festival, FL
Johnny Frigo, Cocoa Beach Jazz Festival, FL
Wycliffe Gordon/Longineau Parsons - JAMS, Palm Beach
Nicole Henry - Jamaica Inn-Ocho Rios, Virgin
Megastore, Times Square, Soul Cafe ,N.Y.C.
Bob Herriot - Imperial Room-Royal York Hotel, Ontario Place, University of Toronto
Simone Kopmajer, Cocoa Beach Jazz Festival, FL
Wynton Marsalis - University of Miami
Rob McConnell - Pepe's Jazz Club - Halifax
Donna "Blue" MacDonald - MOCA, Luna Star Cafe,
Sunshine Jazz Organization, Miami,
The Bull - Key West
Captain Hornblower's/The Reach Resort/Blue Heaven/Green Parrot/Hog's Breath, Key West
The Melton Mustafa Big Band, Riviera Beach Jazz and Blues Festival, Amaturo Theatre, FL
Big Miller & Jodie Drake - Molson International Jazz Festival, Toronto
Othello Molineaux -Jazz Across the Border, Berlin, Hollywood Jazz Festival, FL
Gerry Niewood - East 85th Jazz Club,Toronto
Dana Paul - Jazziz Bistro, Hollywood, FL
Jackie Paris - Tuscany, Miami
Barry Ries - Captain Hornblower's, Flagler's, Key West
Woody Shaw - Chik'n Deli, Toronto
Don "D.T." Thompson, Lorne Lofsky, Neil Swainson, Jerry Fuller - George's Spaghetti House,Toronto
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - Bourbon Street, Toronto
Jimmy Witherspoon - Bermuda Onion Jazz Club, Toronto
GUIDO BASSO
-Gemini Awards
-Jazz East Festival, Halifax
-Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
-St. Andrew's Jazz Concert Series, Toronto
-Top of the Senator, Toronto
-Toronto Arts Awards
-Tribute Concert to Oscar Peterson, Toronto
-Regency Jazz Cruise, Fort Lauderdale, Bermuda
ROB MCCONNELL & THE BOSS BRASS
-Imatra Big Band Festival, Finland
-DuMaurier Jazz Festival, Toronto
-Ottawa Jazz Festival
IRA SULLIVAN
-Captain Hornblower's, Key West
-Hollywood Jazz Festival, FL,
-JAMS, Palm Beach
-JVC Jazz Festival, Toronto,
-Miami Jazz Festival
-Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
-One Night Stan's - Hollywood, FL
-Panama City Jazz Festival, FL
-Pensacola Jazz Festival, FL
-Pigeon Key Jazz Festival, FL
SELECTED TITO PUENTE RECORDINGS
(As Arranger/Piano/Keys)
"Goza Mi Timbal", Concord Picante CCD4399,
GRAMMY and AFIM AWARD
"Out of This World", Concord Picante CCD4448 AFIM AWARD
"Mambo of the Times", Concord Picante CCD4499 AFIM AWARD
"Master Timballero", Concord Picante CCD4594
"Hot Timbales", Concord Picante 2132
"Concord 30th Anniversary Boxed Set" Concord CCD6-2182-2
AS PERFORMER/PRODUCER
Jazz Radio Canada, Brian Murphy Trio, , CBC (Original Music)
"Mantlepiece", Brian Murphy Sextet, CBC (Original Music)
"America's Shining Sea", Dan Mobley featuring Willy & Lobo, (Arranger)
"Something That Nobody's Got" J.R. Moragues, (Writer/Arranger)
"Live at Tuscany", Joe Donato with the Brian Murphy Trio, Fountainhead FS33531
OTHER ARTIST RECORDINGS
"Billy Strayhorn Songbook", Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Phil Woods, Concord Jazz
"Songs From The Heart", Sylvia Bennett
"For Friends", Joe Donato, Fountainhead VR3352
"TNT" , Denis Parker, Neil Bishop, Claude Caines, Teddy McNeil
"Friends of Funkadero", (Arranger/Piano), Turk Mauro, Duffy Jackson, Don Miller, Randall Dollahon
"Live at the Luna Star Café", Donna 'Blue' MacDonald, (Arranger/Piano) Mack Emerman (Producer)
"What the World Needs Now is Love" Laura Theodore w.
Chuck Bergeron, Lee Schwartz, Teddy Mulet. Noah Brandmark and others, Bearcat Records
OC6054
SELECTED SHOWS
Shirley Bassey
Julie Budd
Eddie Daniels
Engelbert Humperdinck (M.D.)
Hal Linden
Regis Philbin & Susan Lucci
"Catskills on Broadway", Mal Z. Lawrence, Dick Capri, Massey Hall
"John Gray's Rock 'n Roll", National Arts Centre, Ottawa,
"The Magic of the Musicals", Marti Webb, U.S./Canadian Tour,
"Don Messer's Jubilee",(M.D.) Canadian Tour
Freda Payne
"Red, Hot and Cole",(M.D.), Vivian Reed/Dance Theatre of Harlem
"Torch", Melody Cooper, Festival Fringe, Edinburgh
AWARDS/GRANTS/PUBLICATIONS
Ambassador of the Arts - Dade Cultural Alliance
Artist in Residence - Jazz East Festival, Halifax
Brian's arrangement of "Straight No Chaser" appears as a reference for converting a non-clave melody in the "Salsa Guidebook"
by Rebeca Mauleon
Canada Council "B" Grant- Studies with Doug Riley
Canada Council Grant - Electronic Music Studies
"CBC Radio" Production of "Black Music in Nova Scotia"
with Charles "Bucky" Adams won an international
GABRIEL AWARD
Canada Council "B" Grant for Studies with Doug Riley
Canada Council Grant for Electronic Music Studies
Artist in Residence - Jazz East Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Ambassador of the Arts - Dade Cultural Alliance
EDUCATOR
Lecturer At Osher Life Long Learning Institute -
The University Of Miami - 2012 to Present
New World School of the Arts (Miami) 2008
- Instructed Advanced Jazz Ensemble
- Brian was sponsored by the Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute)
Frost School of Music (University of Miami)
- Guest Lecturer 2008
Young Musicians Camp (University of Miami)
- directed Honors Jazz Ensemble
- and taught applied keyboard studies. 2007-2019
Telluride High School (Telluride Colorado) 2006
Albertson College (Boise, Idaho) 2005
Barry University (Miami) 1997
Jazz East Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 1992
Ontario Big Band Festival (Toronto) 1986
Dalhousie University (Halifax, N.S.) 1983
St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, N.S. 1981
Private Teaching - 1981 to Present
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