Guido Basso
with vocalist
Carol McCartney

October 20, 2025
Brantford Downtown Jazz Concert Series
GUIDO BASSO (trumpeter, flugelhornist, harmonica-player, arranger, composer, conductor)
was born September 27, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was only nine years old when
he began playing the trumpet, becoming recognized as a prodigy while studying at Montreal’s
Conservatoire de musique du Quebec. He was just a teenager when he was already becoming
prominent on the Montreal club scene, where singer Vic Damone first heard him and took him
on international tour with him for two years.

In 1958 he joined singer Pearl Bailey and her bandleader husband, famed drummer Louis
Bellson, touring North America with them for three years before moving to Toronto to join the
busy studio and television scene there. His playing career as a stand-out sideman and leader,
soared, and he became one of the biggest jazz names in the country, and beginning in 1975,
frequently organized and led big band concerts at Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition
featuring jazz luminaries including Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, Woody Herman, Benny
Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. He can be heard on hundreds of record albums,
playing and recording with stars from Buddy Rich and Oliver Jones to Carol Welsman and
Diana Kralll. He is currently featured on vocalist Diana Panton’s latest release “Pink”.

Guido Basso was a charter member of Rob McConnell’s stellar The Boss Brass, and the Rob
McConnell Tentet, playing with the Boss Brass as a featured soloist throughout their lifetime,
and appearing on 30 Boss Brass recordings. He was part of the highly successful “Sound of
Toronto” series of reunion concerts of the Boss Brass in 2008. In the late ‘70s, he formed his
namesake society orchestra which became the most prominent feature of major private and
public social events in Toronto over ensuing years. He was awarded the Order of Canada in
1994.

Among his Sound of Toronto Jazz Series concert appearances: “Let’s Get Lost - A Tribute to
Chet Baker in 2006, “The Greatest Love Songs” in February 2009 and as a featured soloist
with Diana Panton in October 2009

Awards:
1994 - Named a Member of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honour given in this
country, granted to Canadian citizens 'for outstanding achievement and service to the country
or to humanity at large'
2003 - Juno Award for ‘Traditional Jazz Album of the Year’ for Turn Out the Stars.
2004 - Juno Award for ‘Traditional Jazz Album of the Year’ for Lost in the Stars

Guido Basso is joined by vocalist Carol McCartney, pianist John Sherwood, bassist Steve
Wallace & drummer Frank DiFelice for a wonderful evening of jazz.

Sanderson Centre
for the Performing Arts
88 Dalhousie
Brantford, Ontario

Doors open 7:15 p.m.
Concert at 8:00 p.m.

General Admission

Tickets:  $28.00

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