Guido Basso Obituary

Guido Basso, CM was a Canadian jazz musician who was a member of Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass big band. He was a trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, composer and conductor.

Guido Basso Obituary

One of the integral charter members of the Grammy and Juno Award-winning group Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass has died at 85.

Master trumpeter, flugelhornist, harmonica player, composer, arranger, and conductor Basso died of natural causes Monday morning at his Toronto home, according to an Instagram post by his wife, Kristin Basso.

“He went so quickly and so peacefully. My heart is broken,” Basso wrote.

Basso was a consummate musician, said Don Breithaupt, leader of the band Monkey House, who worked with him often in numerous settings.

“Apart from being a world-respected jazz man, artist, and improviser, particularly on the flugelhorn, he was also such a fixture on the music scene here as a bandleader,” Breithaupt said.