André Keith White (born May 20, 1959) is a Canadian musician, composer, recording engineer and educator. He is an associate professor in jazz studies at the

Schulich School of Music The Schulich School of Music (also known as Schulich) is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 555, rue Sherbrooke Ouest (555, Sherbrooke Street West). The faculty was named after benef ...

in Montreal.

Early life

André White grew up in

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. He is the only child of Keith White, a schoolteacher and jazz pianist and Jeannine Cossette, a sales clerk and homemaker. He attended Riverdale High School,

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, where he earned a BA in English Literature, and

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, where he earned a master's degree in Sound Recording (

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Music career

White plays both piano and drums. He began playing drums at age 12. In high school, he formed a band with his classmates including guitarist

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. Some of the notable jazz performers he has accompanied in the past 35 years include

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, Steve Grossman,

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, Don Thompson,

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, PJ Perry and Al McLean. André's trio, with Alec Walkington on bass, and Dave Laing on drums, has been playing together for over twenty-five years, and has served as rhythm section to many of Montreal's important bands, including quintets led by Kevin Dean and Reno De Stephano, and the big band of Joe Sullivan.

Partial Discography

External links

André White's personal websiteProf profile: André White (music), McGill University

References

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