Harry Vetro

In 2017, as Canada celebrated 150 years of confederation, Harry Vetro took to the road. He traveled coast to coast, visiting communities in the six Indigenous cultural areas in Canada (Arctic, Subarctic, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Plains, and Eastern Woodlands), in an effort to connect with musicians and artists from different cultural backgrounds, and to better understand the land's long cultural history.

Vetro released his self titled debut album Northern Ranger on T.Sound Records in 2018. He melded improvised music, with folk and classical influences creating a unique “Canadian” sound. Vetro's album topped fourth on the National Jazz charts in Canada [5] in November 2018 and was well received by critics around the world.

In 2018, Harry Vetro distributed his single “Buffalo Jump” worldwide on the Spotify Network. In late 2019, the music curators at Starbucks U.S discovered Vetro's single on Spotify. In January 2020, Playnetwork, a Starbucks partner contacted Vetro about obtaining the licensing rights to his single. In February 2020, Vetro's single was added to the “Starbucks Jazz” Spotify playlist. Through the Starbucks/Spotify partnership, Vetro's single “Buffalo Jump” is now receiving airtime in thousands of Starbucks retail locations across the United States. Harry Vetro is the only contemporary Canadian Jazz musician featured on the “Starbucks Jazz” Spotify playlist.[6]

Trout in Swimwear, Harrison²’s 2020 release, is a collection of contrafacts composed by Argatoff and Murley. Trout in Swimwear is a collaboration across generations. The album introduces Vetro and Argatoff to the Canadian jazz scene and displays Murley and Wallace’s knowledge of the jazz tradition. Their contrasting voices draw inspiration from jazz history creating a well-informed jazz album.[7]

"The absence of a chordal instrument opens up the music, encouraging the saxophonists’ dialogue and heightening Wallace and Vetro's presence. It puts Wallace's strong lines in the foreground and adds more room for his sculpted solos; Vetro is a very good drummer, precise and assertive with a keen sense of form." - Stuart Broomer (The Wholenote Magazine) [8]