Jesse Zubot

Jesse Zubot
Jesse Zubot, Moers Festival 2012
Background information
BornLeader, Saskatchewan, Canada
Instruments
Member ofZubot and Dawson, Great Uncles of the Revolution
Websitejessezubot.com

Jesse Zubot is a Canadian musician primarily known for his violin playing.[1] Zubot also works as a composer, producer and recording engineer.[2]

History

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Zubot's acoustic-instrumental group Zubot and Dawson won a Juno Award in 2003 for Roots & Traditional Group Album of the Year. Zubot was also a member of Great Uncles of the Revolution in this era.[3]

Since 2003, Zubot has toured with Tanya Tagaq, Dan Mangan, 7-piece art-rock ensemble Fond of Tigers, Stars, Hawksley Workman, Ndidi Onukwulu, Jim Byrnes, Kelly Joe Phelps and others. Zubot is a member of the seven-piece post-everything ensemble Fond of Tigers.[3]

Since the early 2000s Zubot has spent time working in the improvised and creative music scenes with artists such as Evan Parker, Jean Martin, François Houle, Joe Fonda, Mats Gustafsson, Orkestra Rova, Dylan van der Schyff, Tony Wilson, Fred Frith, Peggy Lee, David Tronzo, Gerry Hemingway, Henry Kaiser, Matthew Bourne, Nels Cline, Humcrush, and others.[citation needed]

Zubot created Drip Audio in 2005.[1] Drip Audio is a record label from the Vancouver underground scene and now includes creations by musicians from Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, New York and London.

Zubot has produced recordings for artists Tanya Tagaq, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Inhabitants, Ndidi Onukwulu, Fond of Tigers, Viviane Houle, Tony Wilson, Copilots, The Sands, and others.[3] He has appeared as a session musician on recordings by Destroyer, Stars, Dan Mangan, Justin Rutledge, Mother Mother, Amy Millan, Tanya Tagaq, Louise Burns, Veda Hille, Alan Doyle, Kelly Joe Phelps, Frog Eyes, Kathryn Calder, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Long John Baldry, Joe Keithley, Raffi, Jadea Kelly, Secret Mommy and The Be Good Tanyas.

Zubot's score for Benoît Lachambre & Su-Feh Lee's Body Scan was presented, with the piece, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (March, 2009). Zubot has composed pieces for both the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia, as well as scores for numerous films and television series.[3]

A live album by Tagaq, called Anuraaqtuq, featuring Zubot on violin and viola, was released in the fall of 2011 on Victo Records. This concert was recorded at The Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville in 2010.

Discography

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  • 1998: Zubot & Dawson - Strang (Black Hen Music)
  • 2000: Zubot & Dawson - Further Adventures in Strang: Tractor Parts (Black Hen Music)
  • 2001: Great Uncles of the Revolution - Stand Up (Black Hen Music)
  • 2002: Zubot & Dawson - Chicken Scratch (True North Records)
  • 2003: Great Uncles of the Revolution - Blow The House Down (Black Hen Music)
  • 2005: Zubotta (Drip Audio)
  • 2005: LaConnor (Drip Audio)
  • 2006: Fond of Tigers - A Thing to Live With (Drip Audio)
  • 2006: Jesse Zubot - Dementia (Drip Audio)
  • 2007: ZMF Trio - Circle The Path (Drip Audio)
  • 2007: Tony Wilson 6tet - Pearls Before Swine (Drip Audio)
  • 2007: Fond of Tigers - Release the Saviours (Drip Audio)
  • 2009: Gord Grdina's East Van Strings - The Breathing of Statues (Songlines)
  • 2010: Fond of Tigers - Continent & Western (Drip Audio)
  • 2010: The Element Choir - At Rosedale United (Barnyard Records)
  • 2011: Tanya Tagaq - Anuraaqtuq (Victo Records)
  • 2012: Gordon Grdina's Haram - Her Eyes Illuminate (Songlines)
  • 2014: Tanya Tagaq - Animism (Six Shooter Records)
  • 2014: Hector and the Search For Happiness (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Various Artists (Varèse Sarabande Records)
  • 2015: Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Club Meds (Arts & Crafts)
  • 2015: Tony Wilson 6Tet - A Day's Life (Drip Audio)
  • 2016: Fond of Tigers - Uninhabit (Drip Audio/Offseason Records)

Awards

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Award Date of ceremony Category Work Result Ref(s)
Canadian Screen Awards 2015 Best Original Score Hector and the Search for Happiness
with Dan Mangan 		Nominated [4]
2017 Two Lovers and a Bear Nominated [5]
2023 Best Original Song "You Are My Bones" — Bones of Crows
with Marie Clements, Wayne Lavallee 		Nominated [6]
Canadian Screen Music Awards 2023 Best Original Song Won [7]
2024 Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film Resident Orca
with Josh Zubot 		Pending
Best Original Score for a Dramatic Series or Special Bones of Crows
with Wayne Lavallee 		Pending
Juno Awards 2015 Producer of the Year "Caribou", "Uja" — Animism by Tanya Tagaq Nominated [8]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Ranta, Alan (24 February 2015). "Jesse Zubot Outlines Drip Audio Plans, Sets to Work on New Destroyer and Frog Eyes LPs". Exclaim!.
  2. ^ Nick Krewen, "Jesse Zubot: They shoot, he scores". Words & Music, March 27, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d Kerry Doole, "Jesse Zubot can’t stop scoring". Words & Music, June 24, 2024.
  4. ^ Gregory Adams, "Dan Mangan nabs Canadian Screen Awards nominations". The Georgia Straight, January 14, 2015.
  5. ^ Stuart Derdeyn, "2018 Jazz Festival pays tribute to Jesse Zubot's Drip Audio label". Vancouver Sun, June 13, 2018.
  6. ^ John R. Kennedy, "Ian LeFeuvre Up For 2 Canadian Screen Awards". iHeartRadio Canada, February 22, 2023.
  7. ^ Howard Druckman, "Fifteen SOCAN members honoured in 2023 Canadian Screen Music Awards (CASMAs)". Words & Music, October 31, 2023.
  8. ^ "Tanya Tagaq, Leela Gilday nominated for 2015 Juno Awards". CBC North, January 27, 2015.
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