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Adrian Vedady

Adrian Vedady is one of Montreal’s finest jazz bassists. Since 1998 he has been performing, recording and touring nationally and internationally. He is known for his beautiful sound, his creativity, his ability to connect with a broad array of musicians and his soulfulness.

He performs regularly with such great Montreal musicians as Jim Doxas, Al McLean, Christine Jensen, Lex French, Andre White, Steve Amirault, the late Wray Downes and Yannick Rieu. He has performed with Canadian jazz greats, Lorne Lofsky, Kirk MacDonald, Brad Turner, Florian Hoefner, Kevin Turcotte and Roddy Ellias.  Vedady has worked with international artists such as Marc Copland, Dan Weiss, Peter Bernstein, Ingrid Jensen, Jean-Michel Pilc, Sheila Jordan, Chet Doxas, David Liebman, Ariel Pocock, Ravi Coltrane and George Colligan.

Adrian Vedady has received two composition grants from the Quebec Council for the Arts in 2005 and 2009. He has also received a FACTOR recording grant in 2007 which led to the recording of his first album as a leader In Three Acts. In 2014, he won a Juno award for best jazz album with Mike Rud's Notes on Montreal project. In 2020, he won another Juno award for best jazz album with Jacques Seguin’s Migrations. In 2022, he won an East Coast Music award for best jazz album with the Montreal Jazz Trio.

In 2022, he will be on tour with the Doxas Brothers quartet in support of their album, The Circle, The Montreal Jazz Trio, in support of their self-titled album, Code Quartet, in support of their album, Genealogy, and the Kate Wyatt quartet, in support of her album, Artifact.

“Adrian Vedady should be considered as one of Montreal’s best double bassists. The quality of his rhythmic accompaniment, the fluidity of his phrasing, the clarity and roundness of his lines makes him one on the most important contributors at the heart of the local scene.” -Alain Brunet, La Presse, 2009.

“What a ridiculously fine bass player Adrian Vedady is. His impeccable ear for tuning and level/balance, his agility around the instrument and his fluency as an improvisor are just jaw-dropping. A player who ‘must be counted among Montreal’s finest double bassists’ might also happen to be one of the best in the world.”-Sebastian Scotney, London Jazz News 2022.

Awards

2020 Juno for Best Jazz Album (Jacques Seguin Migrations)

2014 Juno for Best Jazz Album (Mike Rud Notes on Montreal)

FACTOR grant

Conseil des Arts et de Lettres du Québec grant


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Album Review

Christine Jensen: Day Moon

Read "Day Moon" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Christine Jensen has been described by jazz writer Mark Miller of The Globe and Mail as “one of the most important Canadian composers of her generation." Jensen grew up in Nanaimo, British Columbia with the likes of tenor saxophonist Phil Dwyer and pianist & vocalist Diana Krall but is now based in Montreal, Quebec. She originally went to that city to attend McGill University from which she received her first degree in jazz performance in 1994 and, subsequently, a Masters ...

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Kate Wyatt: Artifact

Read "Artifact" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


At this point, in June of 2022, there is not a lot of internet chatter concerning Montreal-based pianist Kate Wyatt. Her website does not include a biography. But a trip to YouTube land reveals a bit of music from her debut CD release, Artifact. That may be all anyone needs in terms of an introduction. It is uncertain what can be learned from those “played with" and “performed alongside" nuggets that are common in new artist intros anyway.

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Sean Fyfe: Late Night

Read "Late Night" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Sean Fyfe is a peripatetic Canadian jazz pianist who has vagabonded his musical way from Vancouver Island to Montreal to New York City and now London. He has not forgotten the friends he met along the way and so his cohorts for the session are some buddies from Montreal: guitarist Sam Kirmayer, bassist Adrian Vedady and drummer André White. In keeping with the concept of staying with things that are familiar, of the eight-composition playlist for ...

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Sean Fyfe Quartet: Late Night

Read "Late Night" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The opening number on pianist Sean Fyfe's latest album, Late Night, is “Happy," which could serve as a subtext for the album as a whole. Even when performing a solo rendition of Billy Strayhorn's mournful “Lush Life," Fyfe somehow manages to sound happy, lending a sunny counterweight to the heart-breaking sense of loss that permeates Strayhorn's jazz classic. Happy seems to be inbred in Fyfe's temperament, which is one of the reasons listening to Late Night is such a pleasure. ...

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Montreal Jazz Trio: Montreal Jazz Trio

Read "Montreal Jazz Trio" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


We had the Modern Jazz Quartet, sometimes tagged MJQ, from 1952 until--after a stop and start or two--the early 90's. They were a class act, playing in formal attire, playing classically-influenced jazz with a dollop (sometimes more than a dollop) of the blues. Restraint and laid back complexity was the name of the game. Now we have the Montreal Jazz Trio (we could call them MJT, though there is no indication that they have ever claimed that title) ...

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CODE Quartet: Genealogy

Read "Genealogy" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann


Chordless or not, quartets tend to find a way around the necessity of vertical simultaneousness to create significant harmonies. With the Montreal-based Code Quartet it's the former variety of instrumentation, combining a vital rhythm section of drum and bass with two horns, much like Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet or its logical continuation in the group Old and New Dreams. The music of Genealogy, made up almost exclusively of originals--hold the traditional “O Sacred head, Now Wounded," harmonized by Johann Sebastian ...

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Doxas Brothers: The Circle

Read "The Circle" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Family figures squarely into The Circle. For tenor saxophonist Chet Doxas and drummer Jim Doxas, brotherhood is both a literal and figurative tie. These siblings have been playing music together in various configurations from their earliest days, so their bonds truly extend from blood to bandstand. And with their father manning the board for this quartet session recorded at the family homestead in Pointe Claire, QC, it's all Doxases on deck. This album's title references the crescent ...

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Primary Instrument

Bass

Location

Montreal

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

McGill University

Concordia University

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Concerts

May 10 Fri

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Day Moon

Justin Time Records
2023

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Late Night

Cellar Records
2022

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Cherished Possessions

Self Produced
2022

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Artifact

Self Produced
2022

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Upon First Impression

Orchard of Pomegranates
2022

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Genealogy

Justin Time Records
2021

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Étude de Mars

From: Day Moon
By Adrian Vedady

Building You, Building Me

From: Upon First Impression
By Adrian Vedady

Antepenultimate

From: Artifact
By Adrian Vedady

Artifact

From: Artifact
By Adrian Vedady

My One and Only Love

From: Montreal Jazz Trio
By Adrian Vedady

Watching It All Slip Away

From: Genealogy
By Adrian Vedady

A Word From The Wise

From: The Circle
By Adrian Vedady

Evident Monk

From: Occupational Hazard
By Adrian Vedady

The Moon is Made of Gold

From: Because I Loved
By Adrian Vedady

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