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The Artistic Director's Guide is our way of taking you "beyond the bio". Here you'll find audio and video clips, and I'll describe what I like about each artist and suggest why he or she is important to the scene. So dive in—use the menu options above to find an artist, and let's seek to answer "What's so good about...?"

Josh Grossman, Artistic Director
Toronto Downtown Jazz

What's so good about Phil Dwyer?

Artist: 
Phil Dwyer

I like to start these posts with some sort of concise statement on why the musician being profiled is so important. I was going to do that with Phil Dwyer, but Canadian jazz legend Don Thompson does it so much more eloquently than I could. He says:

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