Bob Day’s career on the Canadian jazz scene began in Toronto where he played with Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass, Phil Nimmons n’Nine Plus Six and the O’Keefe Centre Orchestra backing up singers such as Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Bennett. He also performed and recorded there with jazz greats such as Moe Koffman, Guido Basso and Ed Bickert.

His move to Vancouver in 1976 led to gigs with the Bobby Hales Big Band, Pacific Salt, Paul Horn and his own trio with Oliver Gannon and Torben Oxbol.

Internationally Bob traveled the US in 1970 with Paul Anka: worked in New York city in 1986 and in 1990 toured Sweden and Germany with Stockholm’s hottest jazz band Panta Rei under the direction of Erik Lundmark.

Since moving to Calgary in 1986 Bob has played with the Bob Erlendson Quintet, the Eric Friedenberg Big Band, and Bob’s own quintet, which has been an outlet for his original compositions. He has studied with legendary valve trombonist and composer/arranger Bob Brookmeyer in New York City off and on since 1986 and this association has inspired Bob’s writing. Bob also performed with Brookmeyer as a soloist at the 1984 Edmonton Jazz Festival.