Jacques Kuba Séguin is a

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musician and radio host.

Early life

Séguin was born in

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to a Québécois father and a Polish mother.

Career

Séguin is a jazz trumpet player, composer,

orchestrator Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orch ...

, and radio host. He is most noted for his 2019 album ''Migrations'', which won the

Juno Award The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...

for Solo Jazz Album of the Year at the

Juno Awards The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...

2020 and the

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for Jazz Album of the Year at the

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. He was a leader of several ensembles, such as MiGRATIONS, Litania Projekt, and Odd Lot.Guillaume Bourgault-Côté
"Jacques Kuba Séguin, un épagneul et une trompette"
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'', March 4, 2017. He was the winner of the 2012-13 Radio-Canada Revelations prize. In 2015, he was nominated for two

ADISQ ADISQ (french: Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la video; eng, Québec Association for the Recording, Concert and Video Industries, link=yes) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the indepen ...

awards and Prix Opus awards as Best Arranger and Jazz Album of the Year for L’élévation du point de chute. In 2016, he was nominated for two ADISQ awards Litania Projekt with the

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best arranger and jazz album of the year. Séguin performed with others, such as

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, Yves Léveillé, the Jazzlab, Philippe Côté, and

Vic Vogel Victor Stefan Vogel (August 3, 1935 – September 16, 2019) was a Canadian jazz pianist, composer, arranger, trombonist, and conductor. Biography Vogel was born in 1935 to Hungarian parents living in Montreal. He began playing the piano at the ...

Big band. He toured for two years with

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in 150 cities around the world.

Discography

* ''ODD LOT'' (2005) * ''ODD LOT 2/3'' (2008) * ''Litania Projekt'' (2012) * ''ODD LOT: :L'élévation du point de chute'' (2014) * ''Litania Projekt avec le quatuor Bozzini'' (2016) * ''MiGRATIONS'' (2019) * ''ODD LOT - Compilation 15 ans'' (2020)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seguin, Jacques Kuba 21st-century trumpeters 21st-century Canadian male musicians Canadian jazz trumpeters Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year – Solo winners French Quebecers Canadian people of Polish descent Félix Award winners Musicians from Quebec Living people Year of birth missing (living people)