For those unaware, Dan Pitt is a guitarist, composer and improviser currently based in Toronto, Canada.

Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Dan started studying guitar at 10 years old. Throughout his teens, he played music both in school and with bands at venues downtown. Eventually, Dan went on to study jazz at Mohawk College learning from guitarist Bob Shields. Afterwards, Dan moved to Toronto and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance at the University of Toronto.

Dan performs regularly throughout Toronto in a variety of music genres and ensembles. He leads his own creative improv group, Dan Pitt Trio, which features bassist Alex Fournier and drummer Nick Fraser.

In 2021, Dan expanded his group and recorded a quintet album entitled “Wrongs”. This group included woodwind players Naomi McCarroll-Butler and Patrick Smith along with the members of Dan’s trio.

Together, these five musicians extend the vision of this experimental music and build upon it further in this larger ensemble format. These explorations are continued further in the groups latest release “Horizontal Depths,” which is out now.

1. 27 Hours (5:45)
2. Horizontal Depths - Part One (2:20)
3. This Is Fine (4:45)
4. The Sorrow (3:45)
5. Echo Park (6:53)
6. Tautology (5:06)
7. Horizontal Depths - Part Two (7:28)
8. Lester Sleeps In (4:37)

This expertly crafted, wholly impassioned new recording opens on the playfully flirtatious 27 Hours and then proceeds to bring us the transformative melodies within Horizontal Depths - Part One, the upbeat and fluent This Is Fine, before we are lovingly gifted the lonesome, yearning ode The Sorrow.

Along next is the free spirited Echo Park which is itself backed seamlessly by the magically sombre Tautology, the music rounding out on the vibrantly-hued Horizontal Depths - Part Two, coming to an all too soon close on the veritably cinematic Lester Sleeps In.

Musicians:
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - Alto Saxophone and Bass Clarinet
Patrick Smith - Tenor Saxophone
Dan Pitt - Electric Guitar and Compositions
Alex Fournier - Double Bass
Nick Fraser - Drums and Cymbals

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