In the Mood Jazz

The group's leader hails originally from Kingston Ontario, but is now based on Canada's west coast where she became a favourite with audiences in Vancouver and Victoria. Angela Verbrugge is a jazz vocalist who also composes her own music; this group is what she calls her project when it's time for standards we all know and love with experienced side musicians to tear up the solos and lay down the groove. "This lass with sass is just going to bowl you over!" Midwest Record. 

Angela began her career playing piano, trombone and acting in theatre, film and TV in Ontario. She graduated from George Brown Theatre School after a youth romping through old songbooks on her family's piano, watching vintage movie musicals and falling in love with the aesthetic of the films with Fred Astaire, Rosemary Clooney and Bing Crosby. She performed in musicals such as Anything Goes before moving west and having a business career before feeling the call to return to performing. Her lifelong love of jazz standards and the Great American Songbook comes to fruition with this iteration of her band and musical expression.  While her career as a solo artist focuses on her original compositions and lyrics, her performances of lesser known standards makes its way into her recording catalogue. Angela has gathered between 12K-50K monthly listeners on Spotify, and in the last three years has toured in Japan, Turkey, UK, Germany, Luxembourg and Canada.

In the Mood Jazz Group gathers musicians for whom the swing feel is paramount. Its repertoire welcomes listeners with songs they know from shows and movies, popular culture and their grandmother's piano. 

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