2014 | Traditional Jazz Album of the Year | John MacLeod & His Rex Hotel Orchestra | | The JUNO Awards

John MacLeod's credentials as a trumpeter, composer and arranger have been firmly established in a distinguished career spanning over thirty years on the Canadian music scene. He has worked with Toronto's most elite musicians and musical organizations in both the jazz and commercial music fields. He was a featured soloist with one of the world’s most renowned big bands, Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass. He has performed, produced and engineered on over a hundred albums including Grammy and JUNO Award winners. As a composer and arranger, John has scored music for symphony orchestras including his own Champagne Symphony. In 2003, John formed the 20 piece "Rex Hotel Orchestra" who released their inaugural recording Our First Set in 2010 and received the JUNO Award for Best Traditional Jazz Album in 2011. This year the band released their current CD Our Second Set. In 2008, John conducted and performed with his own symphony pops orchestra, The Champagne Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York City featuring world-renowned Canadian jazz clarinetist, Bob DeAngelis. The Champagne Symphony has also recorded two CD’s all with MacLeod's symphonic arrangements. John currently teaches at Humber College and the University of Toronto.