Jim Robitaille

Jim Robitaille has appeared on 30 record­ings and doc­u­men­tary films includ­ing To Music, and A View From With­in on WCS with the Jim Robitaille Group fea­tur­ing NEA Jazz mas­ter Dave Lieb­man. His lat­est release on WCS with the Jim Robitaille Trio is called Space Cycles.

His tele­vi­sion and live per­for­mances include : The BET Jazz Chan­nel, The Time Warn­er Music Choice Jazz Chan­nel, PBS Tele­vi­sion, The Baird Audi­to­ri­um at the Smith­son­ian Institute’s Muse­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry, Wash­ing­ton, D.C, The Bearsville The­atre, Wood­stock, N.Y, the Berklee Col­lege of Music, Ryles Jazz Club Inter­na­tion­al, Nar­rows Cen­ter for the Arts, The Wang Cen­ter, Boston, MA, The Knit­ting Fac­to­ry and Smoke in New York, Quai Des Brumes, Mon­tre­al, QC, Cana­da, Gal­lerie Larouge, Que­bec City, QC, Cana­da, Club Nec­tar VT, Vet­er­ans Memo­r­i­al Audi­to­ri­um, Prov­i­dence, R.I., Zei­t­e­ri­on The­ater, Habi­tats for Human­i­ty, and tours in the US, and abroad.

The Jim Robitaille Group’s debut record­ing enti­tled To Music fea­tur­ing sax­o­phon­ist Dave Lieb­man, received inter­na­tion­al crit­i­cal acclaim win­ning three inter­na­tion­al com­po­si­tion awards for three of his com­po­si­tions from the record­ing. The CD was num­ber five in the top ten list of 2004 by the Dai­ly Ipirotikos Agon and the Apop­sy in Greece and was the pub­lish­ers pick for All About Jazz and the Boston Her­ald. The record­ing received inter­na­tion­al air­play and was #1 chart-bound on the Jazz­Week Jazz chart.

His record­ing A View From With­in on also fea­tures Dave Lieb­man and made the top 100 on Jazz­Week as well as Roy­al Stokes top ten jazz releas­es of 2109.

Awards include The 9th Annu­al Thelo­nious Monk Inter­na­tion­al Jazz Com­posers Com­pe­ti­tion spon­sored by BMI, The 2002 Great Amer­i­can Song Con­test First Place Instru­men­tal Cat­e­go­ry, and The 2002 Great Amer­i­can Song Con­test Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment in Song­writ­ing Award. Oth­er acco­lades include The 2011 Assets For Artists Grant, The Julius Hemphill Jazz Com­posers Alliance Com­pe­ti­tion, The Inter­na­tion­al Song­writ­ing Con­test, Budrus doc­u­men­tary film, and numer­ous per­for­mance grants from the Mass­a­chu­setts Cul­tur­al Coun­cil For the Arts.

Jim Robitaille has stud­ied gui­tar and impro­vi­sa­tion with jazz gui­tarist Jon Dami­an at the Berklee Col­lege of Music, Boston, MA, and impro­vi­sa­tion with Char­lie Bana­cos. Robitaille has per­formed con­certs and taught work­shops, class­es, clin­ics, and mas­ter-class­es in Que­bec Cana­da, St John U.S.V.I, West­field State Col­lege, Berklee Col­lege of Music, Bran­deis Uni­ver­si­ty, Holyoke Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege, The Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts Dart­mouth, Cape Cod Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege, Con­necti­cut Col­lege, West­ern New Eng­land Col­lege, Bris­tol Com­mu­ni­ty Col­lege, Fal­mouth Acad­e­my, and Tabor Acad­e­my, and is an applied jazz gui­tar lec­tur­er, ensem­ble direc­tor, and founder and direc­tor of the Per­for­mance Jam Ses­sion Series on the Jazz Fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mass­a­chu­setts Dartmouth.