The Jeff Johnston Trio is a Canadian jazz band from Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada. The trio, consisting of pianist Jeff Johnston, bassist Jim Vivian and drummer Michael Billard, has been nominated for a 2002 Juno Award and a 2000 East Coast Music Award .
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1-444: The Jeff Johnston Trio played its first show in 1983; that year the trio participated in the first Newfoundland Sound Symposium. The band's album Nuage , recorded in 2001, was nominated for a Juno Award as "Best Contemporary Jazz Instrumental". In 2013 the group released its fifth recording, Returning , featuring jazz in the style of 1970s and 1980s European pianists. Johnston has relocated to Montreal, where he has brought together
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