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DEAN
COTTRILL 529jazz@videotron.ca Born in Dunblane Ontario in 1953, Dean Cottrill discovered a love for music early, singing as a 5 year-old at his school Christmas concert... |
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the height of Beatlemania formal piano lessons could not have been
further from his mind; music meant revolution and the guitar was
its main weapon. Having seen older brother Gordon do an E chord
once too often he appropriated his technique, and eventually his
cherished Gibson Melody Maker. Along came the Cream, Hendrix, Neil
Young, Jeff Beck, Santana, Mike Bloomfield and the like. During adolescence, singing and poetry were closeted and the piano remained decidedly uncool, but a passion for serious music through classic guitar florished as well as an interest in acting. Cottrill's early gig calls were as often for bass as guitar. He landed a weekly house gig playing mainstream jazz while other bands offered country, rock & roll and blues. In 1979 he moved to Edmonton where he studied composition and performance at Grant MacEwan Community College. He freelanced as a sideman and later formed his own bands, eventually integrating his songs with the standard repertoire. A cassetteHandful of Grooves came into being in 1990 with eleven original songs. Two tunes in particular brought Cottrill some recognition; Pussyfootin' gained him a Juno as part of the CBC/Stony Plain Great Canadian Blues Project, and Baby Your Feets Is Cold was recorded by ex-Paul Butterfield guitar legend Amos Garrett. |
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Restless
for new territory and culture, Cottrill made the leap east to Montreal,
wheres in 1997 he joined the weekly HOUR magazine to cover the blues,
roots and jazz scene, a position that afforded him an opportunity
to develop a journalistic counterpart to his musical activities.
It also brought him into contact with promoters, other artists,
and perhaps most notably with bandleader Vic Vogel, who signed him
to VV Records. Cottrill plays in understated bluesy folk patterns with a warm voice and unorthodox, fluent guitar style : the culmination of 25 years of musical experience. |
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