Bassist and composers Sage Reynolds is highly active on the Montréal music scene performing and writing in a variety of musical styles and contexts, including jazz, indie rock, pop, electronica, Turkish Classical Music, and the folk traditions of North America, Latin America, and Europe. Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, he moved to Montréal, Québec in the mid-nineties to pursue his studies and make a life for himself as a professional musician.
Sage has performed and recorded with many different musicians and groups as a double-bassist, electric bassist, and/or vocalist. Some of these groups/musicians include: Sage Reynolds Quartet, Life in Winter, Courtney Wing, Matt Lipscombe, Julian Brown, Jade McNelis, Stars, Land of Talk, Sarah Neufeld, Amon Tobin, Canto, Ismail Fencioglu, Shtreiml, Kaba Horo, Sean Craig Quintet, Gabriel Lambert Trio, André Leroux, François Bourassa, Guy Bélanger, Rick Haworth, Rita Chiarelli, Harry Manx, Bella Fleck, and Andrea Revel. Other musical activities include regular freelance gigging, jazz bass instruction at Concordia University, jazz combo coaching at The McGill Conservatory of Music, the instruction of private students, and studio session work (with performance and composition on Sean Craig Quintet- Under Glass (Ora Records), performance on Amon Tobin- Foley Room (Ninja Tune), and performance and arranging on Stars- "Your Ex-Lover is Dead" Single (Arts & Crafts), among others).
In March of 2007 Sage founded an rock band called Life in Winter in which he is the primary songwriter, as well as lead vocalist and bassist. Life in Winter has played shows in Montréal and has started recording their material, having done sessions with Vid Cousins (Amon Tobin, Moondata) and George Massenburg (Beck, Toto, Frank Sinatra, Journey.)
Life in Winter has just finished mixing their debut album, and it will be release later this year (2012.)
Sage was awarded the "Prix Étoiles Galaxie de Radio-Canada" at the 2005 Montréal International Jazz Festival for his compositions "Saturday Afternoon" and "On the Wall". In October 2005 his quartet opened for John Scofield at the famous Spectrum. Sage Reynolds Quartet played a second and third concert at the MIJF in 2006 & 2008 and performed for the first time at both the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and l'OFF Festival de Jazz de Montréal in June of 2007. "On the Wall", Sage's first full length CD as a composer/band-leader/producer, was released in September of 2006 on Effendi Records (Montréal, FND067.)
To purchase "On the Wall" please visit: www.effendirecords.com or contact Sage via MySpace.
In addition to his work in the Province of Québec, Sage has performed elsewhere within Canada's borders, including concerts and festival appearances in Toronto (including NXNE), Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Owen Sound (Summerfolk Music Festival), Winnipeg (Folk Fest) and Vancouver (Vancouver International Jazz Festival). He has performed internationally in locations such as Alaska, Central America, South East Asia, New York, NY, Merida, Mexico (at the 2005 Merida Jazz Festival Internacional), and Austin, Texas at the 2006 Folk Alliance Conference.
The bulk of Sage's musical training occurred while completing his Bachelor of Music Degree, Majoring in Jazz Performance, at McGill University (2000). Other training has included several years of private study (teachers: Kurt Walthers, Jordan O'Connor, Michel Donato, Eric Legace, Alec Walkington, John Hebert) as well as participation in numerous master classes and seminars, including bass master classes (with Johannes Weidenmuller, Dave Holland, Mark Dresser, Drew Gress, Larry Grenadier) and participation in The International Jazz Workshop at The Banff Centre for the Arts (1999), where he played and studied with Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, and Kenny Werner.
For more info visit: www.sagereynolds.ca (soon to be updated!)
