Lucy Lambert
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Canadian Beats:
“This ensemble of instruments creates a delightful mix of textures and colors, resulting in a truly eclectic and enchanting composition. The arrangement not only showcases the distinct characteristics of each instrument but also amplifies their collective strength when united in harmony.
The lyrics create a vivid atmosphere, and the poetic narrative behind the lyrics leaves an imprint on the listener’s mind.
Overall, the album showcases the creative possibilities within jazz and shows that pushing boundaries outside of the norm is the way to success.”
Sorties Jazz Nights!:
''Lucy Lambert sings very well... Have confidence in Lucy Lambert's Violet Drift. It will illuminate your night.'' - Sorties Jazz Nights!
Lucy is a virtuosic accordionist, jazz singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Lucy's singing is influenced by the great vocalists of early jazz music. Her unique voice is often compared to jazz singers such as Billie Holiday, and Amy Winehouse.
She is a self taught musician who focusses on jazz accordion, singing, and violin, though genre bends to include swing, manouche, eastern european, rebetiko, punkrock and folk music. She came to jazz accordion through several years of playing in the street with different jazz bands as a travelling street performer, busking her way through Europe, East Asia and the United States, before moving to Montreal and performing and recording with various jazz and swing groups, and travelling to New Orleans where she was influenced by jazz and American music.
She also has a BFA in painting from Concordia University and a background in professional dance training, performance art, theatre, creative writing and flamenco dance, which she studied for years including 3 months in Granad for advanced intensives while performing as a musician.
Lucy now lives off a youth artists grant which pays for her living expenses for one year, and to record her next album.
Lucy est une musicienne autodidacte qui se concentre sur l’accordéon jazz, le chant et le violon, bien que le genre se plie pour inclure le swing, le manouche, l’Europe de l’Est, le rebetiko, le punkrock et la musique folklorique. Elle est venue à l’accordéon jazz après plusieurs années à jouer dans la rue avec différents groupes de jazz en tant qu’artiste de rue itinérante, faisant du bus à travers l’Europe, l’Asie de l’Est et les États-Unis, avant de déménager à Montréal et de se produire et d’enregistrer avec divers groupes de jazz et de swing.
Elle a voyagé et joué en Amérique, en Écosse, en Europe et à la Nouvelle-Orléans où elle a été influencée par la musique jazz ancienne de la Louisiane et de l’Amérique, ainsi que par le ragtime et le folkpunk.
Elle détient également un baccalauréat en peinture de l’Université Concordia et une formation en danse professionnelle, en art de la performance, en théâtre, en création littéraire et en danse flamenco.
“This ensemble of instruments creates a delightful mix of textures and colors, resulting in a truly eclectic and enchanting composition. The arrangement not only showcases the distinct characteristics of each instrument but also amplifies their collective strength when united in harmony.
''The lyrics create a vivid atmosphere, and the poetic narrative behind the lyrics leaves an imprint on the listener’s mind.
''Overall, the album showcases the creative possibilities within jazz and shows that pushing boundaries outside of the norm is the way to success.”
-Canadian Beats
“If there was such a thing as a jazzologist, then Lucy Lambert would be one. The musician practically lives and breathes jazz as the lead singer, accordionist, and bandleader for her acoustic jazz act Lucy Lambert’s Violet Drift. The Montreal-based band just released their self-titled debut album back in October, which features compositions originally by Duke Ellington and Jellyroll Morton. ''
-V13 Magazine
Our album‘s incredible band of Montreal’s top jazz musicians includes Joseph Abbott on the clarinet. Joe has toured and recorded with BC hall of famers Diane Lines, Lloyd Artzen, as well as five time maple award winner Harpdog Brown.
Louis Levesque is the founder of the popular trad group ‘the Royal Pickles’ on the tenor banjo. We have virtuosic McGill Jazz MFA graduate Juliette Malgrange on jazz cello, creating a bowed 3 part harmony with the clarinet and accordion not often heard in jazz. She is known in such groups as La Fin du Monde. We have Tyler Parent on the contrabass (Old Time Honey)
We have already had our new album played on CBC's Saturday Night Jazz show with juno award winner Laila Biali. We also had three songs from our recent album featured on CBC radio canada's selection of Canadian jazz artists in Stanley Pean’s “Quand le Jazz est La” Show. We were featured with 5 of our songs and an interview on the Jazz Today Radio Show, and been played twice on Jazz FM radio. We were interviewed on CKUT, CJSW and were #1 on the CJSW Jazz Charts. We have also been featured on CIBL Jazz Actuel show and CFRO-FM Accordion Noir show, Lushlife, and Rimouski Jazz Radio, Coco Jazz, Aeropuerto Jazz Cafe and Women in Jazz Media.
We have had recent rave reviews in Montreal's biggest Jazz publication, ''Sorties Jazz Nights'', as well as in the Syncopated Times jazz journal, and V13 magazine.
Lucy currently lives off a youth artist grant from the Quebec government which pays for her to live and record her next jazz album over the duration of one year.
