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Mathieu Soucy
Mathieu Soucy (he/him/il), “a natural-born swinger” (Jack Bowers, All About Jazz), “has been making quite a splash on the scene these days as a player, educator and composer with a nicely balanced style that has one foot planted firmly in the tradition and one foot planted firmly in the now” (Lyle Robinson, Jazz Guitar Life). His second album “An Afternoon in NDG”, co-produced with saxophonist Jeremy Sandfelder, will be released on November 22nd. Mathieu’s first full length album RECOLLECTING (Inner-Bop Records, self-released) features brilliant voices of the new generation of Canadian jazz and was released on September 30th. 2x JUNO-winner Caity Gyorgy makes a guest appearance on two tracks as a vocalist and lyricist.
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Mathieu Soucy: Recollecting
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Mathieu Soucy, a 2019 graduate of Canada's McGill University, in Montreal, hits the ground running with a splendid debut album, Recollecting, on which he guides a talented quartet of young musicians through seven of his engaging compositions plus Thelonious Monk's Reflections" and the well-traveled Rodgers and Hart standard, Where or When" (sung by Humber College alum Caity Gyorgy). Gyorgy is heard on one other number, Thinker and a Fool," a bright samba whose cryptic lyric is ...
Continue ReadingThe fascinating thing about this album is how Soucy manages to make these pieces sound as if they could have been written back in the golden era yet also fit incredibly well into the current musical landscape. (Kati Kiilaspea, TheWholeNote, vol. 28 issue no.4)
Soucy is a relatively young Montreal Jazz Guitarist who has been making quite a splash on the scene these days as a player, educator and composer with a nicely balanced style that has one foot planted firmly in the tradition and one foot planted firmly in the now. (Lyle Robinson, Jazz Guitar Life)
Primary Instrument
Guitar
Location
Montreal
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
Peter Bernstein
guitarKenny Burrell
guitar, electricJohn Coltrane
saxophoneBarry Harris
pianoBarney Kessel
guitar, electricThelonious Monk
pianoOscar Peterson
pianoBud Powell
pianoMark Turner
saxophone, tenorPasquale Grasso
guitarPhotos
Music
Line for Lyons
From: An Afternoon in NDGBy Mathieu Soucy
Thinker and a Fool
From: RecollectingBy Mathieu Soucy
Lennie's Changes
From: RecollectingBy Mathieu Soucy