Smooth light jazz. Solo piano and piano trio with acoustic bass and drums.

13 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Smooth Jazz, EASY LISTENING: Lounge



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Maxine Willan was born and raised in Australia and came to Toronto, Canada after completing her classical piano training in order to study jazz and the music of North America which she had come to love from an early age, listening to her mother, a pianist, perform the music of Duke Ellington and Fats Waller, and then hearing Louis Armstrong and later the wondrous Thelonius Monk. She studied with Canada's best teachers in piano and arranging while working as a professional pianist in Toronto's top hotels and clubs. She has performed in jazz festivals in Toronto and across Ontario, and has been featured in radio station CJRT's concerts from the Ontario Science Centre. As well as performing solo, and with her own jazz ensemble, she arranges and performs with various big swing bands in Ontario. Maxine has also composed several musical theatre productions which have been produced in Toronto and Ontario including Twelfth Night Blues which was produced at the Stratford Festival.