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Mark Godfrey
Bassist Mark Godfrey is quickly becoming one of the new faces in Canadian jazz. Hailing from Southwestern Ontario and currently living in Toronto, he has established himself a mainstay in this national community and was named the 2019 Emerging Jazz Artist by the Toronto Arts Foundation. Composing and performing for many years with his contemporary jazz group, Pram Trio, Mark’s work as a co-leader, bassist, and composer has garnered international recognition. In 2014, this group was awarded the Grand Prix de Jazz from the Montreal Jazz Festival and has performed as a feature artist at jazz festivals across Canada including those in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, and Rimouski. Following the release of Pram Trio’s most recent album in 2016, Mark began composing for five-piece jazz ensemble and in 2017 started the Mark Godfrey Quintet
Icterus II
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Three Wars; Here's to Circle; Aku San Zan; Dosage; Juan Soto; Old Guard; Our Circle; Leave Unattended and Suffer the Consequences.
Stefan Hegerat's Bet Against Algorithmic Music
by Lawrence Peryer
Stefan Hegerat reached his breaking point with Spotify. Last year, the Toronto drummer and composer made a decision that's becoming more common among independent musicians: he began the process of removing his music from the streaming giant. “I recently read Liz Pelly's book about the evolution of Spotify and that really sealed the deal ...
Shaping the Invisible
By Teri Parker
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Becoming; Humph; K.T.T. Bass Intro; Kitchen Timer Tune; Desolate Places; Segment; Paw Prints;
Retrograde; Strolling.
Segment
Album: Shaping the Invisible
By Teri Parker
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:40
Square Peg
By Mark Godfrey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Black Stars; Square Peg; No Gig Today; U.S.S. Rent-A-Car; Skyline; One Game Away From Winter; Forty Minutes Or More; Driving Westbound; McDuff; Bucket List.
USS Rent-a-Car
Album: Square Peg
By Mark Godfrey
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Duration: 07:16
New albums from Carla Bley, Lisa Hilton, Mark Godfrey, Nutria and Oded Tzur.
by Bob Osborne
There is a striking album of new music from pianist/composer Carla Bley, whose trio with Andy Sheppard and Steve Swallow is now in its 25th year. Individual associations among the players go back much further: bassist Swallow first recorded music by Carla in 1961. Bley's distinctive piano, with its hints of Monk and Satie, is beautifully ...
Mark Godfrey: Square Peg
by Dan McClenaghan
Mark Godfrey has done his fair share of commuting in furtherance of his jazz career. Toronto--his home base--to New York has been a regular journey. The near five hundred mile trip would certainly be shorter (timewise) via airplane. But the decision was made to roll in a 2006 Dodge Caravan, due to the fact (we can ...
Toronto Jazz Orchestra: 20
by Jack Bowers
The name on the album--20--says it all: the world-class Toronto Jazz Orchestra has been presenting marvelous music in eastern Canada and beyond for twenty years and has marked the special anniversary by releasing the fourth in a series of admirable recordings that began in 2001 with Toronto Jazz Orchestra. This time out, all ...
