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Mathieu Soucy

Canadian guitarist Mathieu Soucy is “a natural-born swinger” (Jack Bowers, All About Jazz) hailing from Montréal. His voice on the instrument “[...] has one foot planted firmly in the tradition and one foot planted firmly in the now” (Lyle Robinson, Jazz Guitar Life). He has released three albums/EP as a leader: Say Listen (2025), An Afternoon in NDG (2024) and Recollecting (2022).

Mathieu Soucy: Recollecting

Read "Recollecting" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 12, 2022

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 ...

The 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)