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BILL MCBIRNIE – EXTREME FLUTE Bill McBirnie is a jazz and Latin flute specialist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has studied with renowned American flutist, Samuel Baron, distinguished Canadian flutist and composer, Robert Aitken, as well as Cuban charanga legend, Richard Egues. Bill is known well for his superior technique but he is also recognized as an exceptional improviser (notably in the bebop, swing and Latin idioms) as demonstrated by his recordings as a sideman with Junior Mance, Irakere, Memo Acevedo, Emile-Claire Barlow and Cache. He has performed extensively with Toronto's finest musicians including Bernie Senensky's Moe Koffman Tribute Band. Here are just a few illustrative comments regarding Bill’s work: "Dear Maestro McBirnie, [This] just blew me away. Great, great playing...Innovative... I have never heard anyone play like this...Great technique and music making. The scales are so even it sounds like he wrote the Taffanel scale book...I would recommend that you all pick up a copy...Bill, when you read this, I have to take my hat off to you. This is great playing by any standard." (SIR JAMES GALWAY, Galway Flute Chat) "A distinguished flutist with a devotion that shows up in the airy sweetness of his sound at ballad tempos and in the remarkable control he can bring to rapid-fire, skittering runs on up tempo, Coltrane-inspired material." (STUART BROOMER, Editor, Coda magazine) "McBirnie has always handled bop exceptionally well. You can he