Jesse Zubot is a

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musician primarily known for his

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playing. Zubot also works as a composer, producer and recording engineer.Nick Krewen
"Jesse Zubot: They shoot, he scores"
'' Words & Music'', March 27, 2020.

History

Zubot's acoustic-instrumental group Zubot and Dawson won a

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in 2003 for Roots & Traditional Group Album of the Year. Zubot was also a member of Great Uncles of the Revolution in this era.Kerry Doole
"Jesse Zubot can’t stop scoring"
'' Words & Music'', June 24, 2024. Since 2003, Zubot has toured with Tanya Tagaq,

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, 7-piece art-rock ensemble Fond of Tigers,

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, Ndidi Onukwulu, Jim Byrnes,

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and others. Zubot is a member of the seven-piece post-everything ensemble Fond of Tigers. Since the early 2000s Zubot has spent time working in the improvised and creative music scenes with artists such as

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, Jean Martin, François Houle, Joe Fonda,

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, Orkestra Rova, Dylan van der Schyff, Tony Wilson,

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, Peggy Lee, David Tronzo,

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, Matthew Bourne,

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, Humcrush, and others. Zubot created Drip Audio in 2005. Drip Audio is a record label from the Vancouver underground scene and now includes creations by musicians from

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, 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. He has appeared as a session musician on recordings by

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, Mother Mother,

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, Tanya Tagaq,

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, Frog Eyes, Kathryn Calder, Alpha Yaya Diallo,

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, 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

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in Paris (March, 2009). Zubot has composed pieces for both the

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and Symphony Nova Scotia, as well as scores for numerous films and television series. 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

*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)

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Jesse Zubot
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zubot, Jesse Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Musicians from British Columbia Canadian folk violinists Canadian jazz violinists Canadian male violinists and fiddlers Canadian session musicians Canadian record producers 21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers 21st-century Canadian male musicians Canadian male jazz musicians Musicians from Saskatchewan

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