Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Jeff Younger is a prolific guitarist and composer who received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the highly regarded Capilano College Jazz Studies Program. Never afraid to step outside the box, Jeff majored in composition, writing modern classical music, while maintaining a strong secondary emphasis in modern jazz guitar. Since relocating to Vancouver, Jeff has been bandleader, composer, sideman, co-conspirator and hired gun in an enormous number of musical adventures and projects. He has preformed and studied with many people who’s names would impress you and many more whom you’ve never heard of but are amazing musicians and artists. He gigs regularly all over Vancouver, has played in the Vancouver International Jazz Festival and the Vancouver International Dance Festival, performed in live theatre, radio and television, worked for an Elvis impersonator, was commissioned to compose a jazz tune for a recently published book, and has done a stint as a jazz guitar player on the floating consumer herding device known as a “cruise ship”. Among much else, he currently leads his all original, modern jazz quartet The Unsupervised, his all original, entirely tasteless country band The Family Stump, the free improv duo Alternative Worlds, and performs entirely improvised solo guitar w/electronics shows fondly referred to as Jeff Younger’s Devil Loops. He is quickly becoming one of the most interesting and individual artists on the West Coast and feels like he’s just begun his musical adventures. His website is jeffyounger.net.
