“Mike De Masi is a double bassist and electric bassist active on the Montreal music scene.

After
graduating in 2012 from the renown Schulich School of Music at McGill University with a
bachelors in Jazz, having studied with some of Montreal’s finest musicians including Fraser
Hollins, Chet Doxas, and Jan Jarczyk, he went on to record on award-winning alto-sax player
Becky Noble’s 2013 album Salish Folk Song (Effendi). He also had the great fortune of
performing at the 2013 Cairo Jazz Festival with Egyptian-Canadian musician Ali El-Farouk with
special guest Nubian singer and master oud player Karam Mourad. He appears on Lulu Hughes’
2010 rock big band album entitled Lulu Hughes and the Montreal All City Big Band (Star.Ca).

De Masi has collaborated with some of Montreal's best such as Al McLean, Josh Rager, Daniel
Lessard, Andre White, Kevin Dean, Jessica Vigneault, Dawn Tyler Watson among others. He also
had the great pleasure of studying with Rufus Reid, Matt Brewer, and Larry Grenadier.
De Masi currently leads his own group which had the opportunity to open for Montreal sax-
man Rémi Bolduc’s group featuring international artists Ari Hoenig and Baptiste Trotignon in
March 2014 as part of the Jazz en Rafale festival. He also participated under his own name at
the Rimouski Jazz Festival in August 2014. Some highlights of De Masi’s work in recent years as
a sideman are performing in Montreal saxophonist Tevet Sela’s group in a concert featuring
New York based pianist Roy Assaf in October 2014, and playing in Québec city with David
Alain’s trio as the opening act for Gilad Hekselman featuring Mark Turner in July 2015.
De Masi is featured most recently on Andre White’s 2016 release Esprit De Corps with Bill Coon.
He’s toured most recently with Sam Kirmayer, whom he recorded for on Kirmayer’s 2017
release Opening Statement (Chromatic Audio), as well as in groups with Susie Arioli. De Masi
also started a masters at McGill University in September 2016 where he has already studied
with Rémi Bolduc and Jean-Michel Pilc and currently with François Bourassa. He’s also had the
fortune of performing live in trio with Jean-Michel Pilc in the summer and fall of 2017.”