Gordon Grdina

Gordon Grdina is a guitarist and oud player from Vancouver, Canada, whose music draws on jazz, free improvisation and Arabic and Persian traditions. He leads groups in Vancouver and New York, and his album China Cloud won the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year in 2019. Grdina studied at Capilano University and Western Washington University and spent five years taking private lessons with bassist Gary Peacock. He recorded for Songlines with Peacock and Paul Motian.