Born: June 21, 1973
Burnaby BC
Current home: Vancouver BC

Jared Burrows was born and raised in Vancouver where he was fortunate to be inspired by a very diverse group of fine local musicians including Fraser MacPherson, Bill Clark, Hugh Fraser, Stan Taylor, Roger Baird, Bruce Freedman, and Oliver Gannon. He later honed his skills in performance with some of these people and has worked continuously to develop the same kind of strong artistic vision he heard first in their playing. Some of his other musical influences include jazz musicians Jim Hall and John Coltrane, and twentieth century composers such as Weill, Stravinsky, and Ives. As a very active bandleader and sideman, Jared has performed extensively in concerts, festivals, radio, and television throughout BC, Alberta, Washington, and Oregon. He has toured Western Canada and the USA many times with his own trio and quartet, as part of the Burrows/Kohler Duo, and with the Knotty Ensemble. Burrows is also quickly becoming known as a producer, recording and mastering engineer, and as the head of the Third Rail Music Label. Currently, Jared's performing and recording work is focused on his jazz trio with Stan Taylor and Rob Kohler, the free improv group Burrows/Reed/Macdonald, and an Indo-jazz fusion project with two of Canada's finest Hindustani classical musicians: tabla player, Hari Pal, and singer, Shashi Lata Virk.

In addition to maintaining a busy performing career playing jazz and improvised music, Jared has played and composed music for film, dance, and theatre and has been commissioned to compose for chamber groups and electroacoustic resources. He holds a Masters degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on music aesthetics and cognition as they relate to the teaching of improvisation as well as Sufi and Taoist philosophy applied to music. In what little remains of his spare time, he builds guitars and basses for some of the West Coast's finest performers.

Tim Barrett Quintet - The Path BARR Records To be released Fall 2002?