Bill McBirnie - New CD Release

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After contributing as a sideman to a wide range of recordings (including works by Junior Mance, Memo Acevedo, Irakere, Cache as well as his own earlier Extreme Flute projects), flutist Bill McBirnie swings and sparkles once again in a straight-ahead acoustic jazz setting. The Bill McBirnie Duo/Quartet
(Featuring Bernie Senensky, Neil Swainson & John Sumner) Paco Paco. This recording sets Bill alongside one of Canada’s foremost jazz pianists, Bernie Senensky, as well as a consummate rhythm section which is rounded out by the impeccable Neil Swainson on bass and a steadfast John Sumner on drums.

The album consists of a solid combination of standard jazz repertoire (including the cunning and crafty title track which was written by Bernie Senensky) yielding a balanced mix of duo and quartet outings, all of which are executed with a relaxed and “blowing session” like ease. The result is a CD with genuine “drop-the-needle-anywhere” charm.

The content of the album
(1) Like Sonny (J. Coltrane) 5:43
(2) Hackensack (T. Monk) 4:53
(3) Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus (Duffield/Webb) 6:32
(4) Doxy (S. Rollins) 4:46
(5) Bright Mississippi (T. Monk) 5:29
(6) My Song (K. Jarrett) 5:50
(7) Paco Paco (B. Senensky) 4:23
(8) East Of The Sun (B. Bowman) 4:00
(9) This I Dig Of You (H. Mobley) 4:21
(10) Hackensack (T. Monk) (reprise) 4:54
(11) The Great City (C. Lewis) 6:38
(12) O Grande Amor (Jobim/de Moraes) 6:29

Bill McBirnie is a jazz and Latin flute specialist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has studied with distinguished Canadian flutist and composer, Robert Aitken, and Cuban Charanga legend, Richard Eques. Bill is known for his superior technique on the entire family of flutes (from bass flute to piccolo). He is also recognized as an accomplished improviser, notably in the bebop, swing and Latin idioms as illustrated by his recordings as a sideman with Junior Mance, Irakere, Memo Acevedo and Cache.

Bill has produced two of his own EXTREME FLUTE projects and, more recently, a straight-ahead acoustic jazz recording under his own name featuring The Mark Eisenman Trio entitled, "Nature Boy" (which attained the No. 4 spot in Jazz.FM91's Top 40 international line-up for 2003 in Canada as well as being in the spin-cycle of Bob Parlocha’s syndicated jazz program in the US). Needless to say, “Nature Boy” has garnered consistently excellent reviews internationally—in Canada, the US, Britain, Holland and France.

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