Interview With Ron Samworth - Part 1

Who: Ron Samworth

Interviewer: Tommy Babin

Vancouver-based guitarist/composer Ron Samworth is known on the Canadian improvised/contemporary music scene as an inventive textural improviser and a strong fluid melodicist informed and inspired by a variety of music traditions including jazz, rock, new music and folk music of many cultures. He leads the acclaimed Vancouver-based quartet Talking Pictures and co-leads the NOW Orchestra and is a member of Francois Houle’s electro-acoustic quartet and the Hard Rubber Orchestra.

He has appeared at all the major Jazz Festivals across Canada, the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, at New York’s Knitting Factory, and the New York Improvisation Festival, New Music America, Vienna’s "Let’s Cool One" Chamber Jazz Festival, Chicago and Berlin jazz festivals and other leading venues in Europe.