Winnipeg born, Vancouver based guitarist/composer Jeff Younger is one of the busiest, most interesting and original musicians in Canada. Prone to rampantly tasty guitaristic diversity, deadly serious compositional tendencies, and lawless sprees of sonic expressionism, he’s been called “the mad scientist of the electric guitar” and “Vancouver’s own Frank Zappa”. A leading figure in Vancouver’s contemporary jazz and improv scene, Jeff is an in demand composer, performer, collaborator and educator. He leads some of the city’s most exciting and adventuresome projects, including voracious modern jazz monster The Unsupervised, the entirely improvised solo guitar w/ electronics Jeff Younger’s Devil Loops, the fearlessly playful Sawhead Trio, and the 10-piece chamber/improv ensemble Nocturnal Puddle Reflections. The Unsupervised has been nominated for the 2011 Montreal International Jazz Festival’s Grand Prix du Jazz Award and Galaxie Award for Composition, and Younger has been twice previously been nominated for The Vancouver International Jazz Festival’s Galaxie Rising Star Award. Jeff is one of the city’s busiest and most inspired performers, mischievously leads Vancouver’s most hilariously inappropriate country band The Family Stump, and has been know to sing a heart wrenching ballad or two when the spirit takes him. POSTS