MICHAEL HERRING
Genres: 21st Century Modern, Post Bop • Canada

Michael Herring is a double-bassist and composer based in Toronto who writes, performs and records across genre lines, equally comfortable in jazz as in roots settings, including folk, world, and pop/rock.  Herring leads and co-leads a number of groups which focus on original music of which he is a major contributor: Herring co-leads Peripheral Vision along with guitarist and long-time collaborator Don Scott; a modern-jazz quartet that brings out the synergy between their strong musical personalities and their complimentary writing styles. Peripheral Vision has maintained a busy touring schedule with the release of it’s third album Sheer Tyranny of Will Michael Herring Quartet, a chordless two-saxophone band drawing inspiration from 1960’s jazz, especially Mingus and Ellington. Michael Herring’s Vertigo, an original jazz sextet comprised of the strongest voices in the next generation of Canadian Jazz and New York’s David Binney on alto saxophone, has just released Dark Materials, a follow-up to Coniferous read more...