Smart words, smart chords, smart clothes - Dave Lang has had a fondness for smartness since someone told him he had a smart mouth. Inspired by Louis Armstrong, Cole Porter and Lenny Bruce, Lang writes smart songs that make you smile.

"Even the love songs are biting and satirical" - Geoff Berner

Dave Lang loves jazz, loves writing songs and loves having fun. Since his two year residency in an old vaudeville theatre in rural Saskatchewan he's made jazz music that brings the genre back to the bars, drunks and drug addicts that first breathed life into it. Referential without being reverential, he writes new standards from a modern Canadian perspective. Lang tours Canada regularly and has appeared on record alongside musicians such as Neko Case, Corb Lund, Geoff Berner and Carolyn Mark. He has written music for film and television and received glowing reviews online and in print magazines such as The Georgia Straight and Spin.