Mason Jeffery-Off is a Canadian bassist, composer and bandleader based in Montréal. Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Jeffery-Off is a graduate of McGill’s Jazz Performance program. There, he studied with Ira
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Mason Jeffery-Off is a Canadian bassist, composer and bandleader based in Montréal. Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Jeffery-Off is a graduate of McGill’s Jazz Performance program. There, he studied with Ira Coleman and Rémi-Jean LeBlanc. An on-call Montréal bassist, he performs frequently with the likes of Jean-Michel Pilc, Darrell Green, and Kevin Dean.
In 2023, at age 19, Jeffery-Off was one of 16 international jazz musicians under the age of 25 to be selected for Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, a performer-composer residency located at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington DC. In 2024, he received the Hnatyshyn Developing Artist Grant (Oscar Peterson Grant for Jazz Performance).
This concert exclusively features Jeffery-Off’s original compositions, arranged for a trio consisting of Sam Fortin on piano, and Benjamin Shaw on drums, both from Montréal. His music draws a line between jazz, 20th-century classical music and folk.
