The Rex's Annual Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane: Pat LaBarbera Quintet

The Rex Hotel Jazz and Blues Bar

Pat Labarbera, saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, jazz educator was born in Mt. Morris, New York and spent the first thirty years of his life in the United States before moving to Toronto in 1974. His father taught the basics of music to Pat and his two younger brothers, John (a gifted arranger/trumpeter) and Joe (a highly accomplished drummer). He studied at the famed Berklee College of Music, and soon after graduating, began to make his presence felt with the best of the American big bands.

Pat Labarbera quintet

Ben Ball grew up in Sarnia, Ontario and began playing drums at age thirteen. At the age of seventeen he enrolled in Humber College and completed the Applied Music Program by the age of twenty. During his student sojourn, he became focused on Jazz music and after graduating from Humber, received a Canada Council project grant to study with Chris McCann in Kingston Ontario. After touring and playing at various jazz clubs around Toronto, Ben received another project grant from the Canada Council and decided to move to New York to pursue his interest in Jazz music

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Sep 19, 2024

The Rex's Annual Birthday Tribute to John Coltrane: Pat LaBarbera Quintet · The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Club

Apr 12, 2024

Pat Labarbera quintet · The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Club

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