Record Roundup From Modern to Contemporary
In our February jazz section, we discussed the meaning of the above terms in jazz. The three recordings under review serve to illustrate the points…
Marc Chénard
Marc Chénard
Marc Chénard is a Montreal-based multilingual music journalist specialized in jazz and improvised music. In a career now spanning some 30 years, he has published a wide array of articles and essays, mainly in Canada, some in the United States and several in Europe (France, Belgium, Germany and Austria). He has travelled extensively to cover major festivals in cities as varied as Vancouver and Chicago, Paris and Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen. He has been the jazz editor and a special features writer for La Scena Musicale since 2002; currently, he also contributes to Point of Departure, an American online journal devoted to creative musics. / / Marc Chénard est un journaliste multilingue de métier de Montréal spécialisé en jazz et en musiques improvisées. En plus de 30 ans de carrière, ses reportages, critiques et essais ont été publiés principalement au Canada, parfois aux États-Unis mais également dans plusieurs pays européens (France, Belgique, Allemagne, Autriche). De plus, il a été invité à couvrir plusieurs festivals étrangers de renom, tant en Amérique (Vancouver, Chicago) que Outre-Atlantique (Paris, Berlin, Vienne et Copenhangue). Depuis 2012, il agit comme rédacteur atitré de la section jazz de La Scena Musicale; en 2013, il entame une collabortion auprès de la publication américaine Point of Departure, celle-ci dédiée aux musiques créatives de notre temps.
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QJLQ: Backroom Revolution
In its day, the late 1960s, the Quatuor de Jazz libre du Québec (QJLQ) was the first local band dedicated to the cause of free…
ECM Records – From Modern to Contemporary
If Blue Note’s main accomplishment was to define the shape of modern jazz by successfully negotiating its transition out of the classic era, ECM Records…
Blue Note Records – From Classicism to Modernism
Few record labels have left a deeper imprint on jazz than Blue Note Records. Not only does its name speak for itself, but its catalogue…
A Contemporary Take on Jazz
For music listeners at large, the term “contemporary music” is associated to a body of works created over the past century from the Second Viennese…
Tenors of the Time
Think of jazz instruments, and chances are the tenor saxophone is the first one that comes to mind. Past masters like Hawkins, Young, Coltrane, Getz…
Swing, Klezmer and Beyond
Long before the term “world music” became en vogue, jazz was already international. Nowadays it draws more liberally than ever on every possible genre, from…
OFF JAZZ 2018: Front Stage to Back Stage
Special Projects For its 2018 edition, the Off Festival has reduced the number of foreign performers in its program to a bare minimum. Yet this…
Off the Record
September Benjamin Deschamps: No Codes (Disques MCM). Launch on Friday Sept. 21, Dièse Onze. Hard Rubber Orchestra: Suite for Hard Rubber Orchestra by…
Fall Previews
As the summer winds down, the scene starts to pick up again, and pretty quickly, too, in the very week after Labour Day. Here’s what…
