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Flora Scott is a jazz vocalist, guitarist and song writer. She began playing the guitar and singing at the age of six and has performed at many venues around Victoria and Vancouver. She has studied jazz guitar with Oliver Gannon, Brian Nova, Rob Cheramy and Pat Coleman. She has also studied voice from Seattle-based vocalist Jay Clayton.
Scott has performed with Slide Hampton and Ian McDougall, plays guitar in the Don Leppard Big Band, and has had regular appearances at the Victoria International Jazzfest. Her style is influenced by jazz greats as diverse as Sarah Vaughn, Chet Baker, Mose Allison, Billie Holiday, Kenny Burrel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joe Pass, Jimmy Bruno and Django Reinhard. She has released two CD's.
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Josh Dixon started drumming at age three. Over the past 20 years, he has played thousands of jazz gigs throughout North America. After relocating to New York City in 1991, Dixon went on to perform with some of jazz music's top names, including Herb Ellis, Roy Hargrove and Kurt Rosenwinkle. In addition to New York, he is well known on the New Orleans music scene where he lived and performed. In 2004, he returned to his hometown of Victoria, where he continues his work as a professional jazz drummer through gigging, recording and teaching.
Born in Vancouver and raised in Victoria, Sean Drabitt has earned a reputation as a world-class jazz bass player. Spending most of the 90s in the vibrant jazz scenes of New York and New Orleans, he was able to work with many of the top names in jazz, including Mark Turner, all the Marsalis family, Betty Carter, Mike Stern, Greg Tardy, and many others. He has also performed on records with Jason Marsalis and Nicholas Payton. Drabitt has played in over 40 countries and spent a year teaching bass at two colleges in Seoul, Korea. His most recent projects include his Jaco Pastorius tribute band and Vancouvers Hip-hop fusion funksters, Namedropper.
Roy Styffe, a jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flute player, has spent many years in the Toronto jazz scene before eventually settling in Victoria. Styffe has recorded and performed with Don Thompson, Ed Bickert, Kenny Wheeler, Pat LaBarbera, Bernie Senensky and Ron Collier, as well as having two recordings under his own leadership. He has performed at major jazz festivals across the country, and regularly performs with the Monday Night Big Band, and the Chris Millington Big Band.
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