Mark Godfrey

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Marc Godfrey (* around 1988 in West Elgin ) is a Canadian jazz musician ( double bass , composition ) of the Post Bop .

Live and act

Godfrey studied jazz interpretation at the University of Toronto . From the 2010s he played in Toronto with Jack Bodkin (piano) and Eric West (drums) in the Pram Trio , with whom the joint album Saga Thirteen was created in 2016 ; In 2014 he and the trio received the Grand Prix de Jazz of the Montreal Jazz Festival . He was also heard on album 20 by the Toronto Jazz Orchestra. In 2018 he recorded his first album live ( Prologue ), followed in 2020 by the album Square Peg with his own compositions that were composed on his trips in a minivan between New York and Toronto and that he and his quintet (with Allison Au (alto saxophone), Matt Woroshyl (Tenor saxophone), Chris Pruden (piano) and Nick Fraser on drums) that same year in Toronto. It received an excellent reception in the Down Beat .

Godfrey has performed at jazz festivals across the country and with a variety of Canadian artists including Kellylee Evans , Barbra Lica, Jake Koffman and the Toronto Jazz Orchestra . He also works as a jazz teacher. In 2019 he received the Emerging Jazz Artist Award from the Toronto Arts Foundation. In the field of jazz, he was involved in four recording sessions between 2016 and 2020, according to Tom Lord .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c West Elgin Native Mark Godfrey Wins Prestigious Jazz Award
  2. ↑ a b Square Peg. Down Beat, July 1, 2020, accessed July 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Mark Godfrey Wins the 2019 Emerging Jazz Artist Award. Toronto Arts Foundation, June 24, 2019, accessed July 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 6, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Godfrey, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godfrey, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician (bass, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH West Elgin