The last summer single of 2025! 2x JUNO Award Nominees Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks in collaboration with Latin GRAMMY Award Winner, Cheo.
Over the last few years, ALEX BIRD has become one of the most exciting names on the Canadian Jazz scene. With praise from around the globe and alongside songwriting & piano partner EWEN FARNCOMBE, Bird has created timeless and heartfelt originals for a modern audience. This talented team has produced something that is completely unique: four original & independent albums. Their sophomore album, You Are the Light and the Way, backed by their Jazz Mavericks, was nominated for “Best Vocal Jazz” at the 2022 JUNO Awards. Also in 2022, Bird & Farncombe wrote and released Canada’s Thanksgiving anthem, The Sweetest Moments, which received a national ad campaign across Canada, with interviews on CBC, CTV, and other major news outlets.
Bird and Farncombe’s third album, a duo record, dropped as a surprise of 11 originals entitled Songwriter in November of 2023. Kira Grunenberg at DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE wrote, “Impassioned messages sung and played from one’s heart but worn on a well-dressed sleeve. Songwriter is an elegant, romantic, and well-executed gem of a record.” Songwriter was nominated for “Best Vocal Jazz” at the 2024 JUNO Awards.
From headlining the Sudbury Jazz Festival to making appearances at The Markham Jazz Festival, The Kensington Market Jazz Festival, and The Niagara Jazz Festival, and playing such top-notch music venues as The Jazz Bistro, Upstairs Jazz, Knox Hall, Reid’s Distillery, The Old Mill, and Sellers & Newel; Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks are continuing their growing momentum.
In the Summer of 2024, Bird & Farncombe began releasing all-original Bossa Nova collaboration with Latin Grammy Award Winner and Grammy Nominee Cheo, the founding member of one of the biggest bands to come out of Venezuela, the jazz/funk band Los Amigos Invisibles, discovered by David Byrne. To cap off 2024 Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks released their 4th album, an all-original Christmas album called Another Christmas Day. Not only recorded live-off-the-floor, the album was recorded without the use of headphones or studio monitors. The record recieved much praise, including a special Christmas spot on Global News with Susan Hay.
To kick off 2025, Alex Bird & The Jazz Mavericks were the headlining opening act for Markham’s prestigious “Jazzlicious Winterfest” series, with 5 nights of shows. In August, Bird & Farncombe released the rest of their EP with Cheo, entitled Casanova, Bossa Nova, Lover Man. The journey continues as Bird & Farncombe are now in the process of writing their 5th album.
Bird was adopted from Romania and came to Canada at six weeks old. He literally grew up with the classics. Starting at the age of two, he was taken to hang around the Toronto Jazz scene and had the opportunity to see and meet many of the greats along the way: Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Ray Brown, Oscar Peterson, Mel Tormé, Ray Charles…the list goes on. Without even knowing it, his musical training developed, sitting around at smoky Jazz clubs into the wee small hours of the morning.
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