Summer 2025: jazz festival season
Rain or shine, for jazz fans summer always means one thing: festival season. As always, La Scena Musicale offers a wide selection of interesting shows…
Browsing: Scena Jazz
Hugo Blouin’s “Sport National”
Hockey stories for voice(s) and jazz ensemble Last February, at the Prix Opus gala, double bassist and composer Hugo Blouin was awarded the prize for…
Ana Sokolović & Kris Defoort Compose imposed works of the 2025 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition
Announcement of the composers of the unpublished imposed works for the 2025 Piano Competition Semi-final Ana Sokolović – Two Studies for Piano www.anasokolovic.com A key figure in…
Review | Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Rhythms of Harlem
With Uptown Nights (seen March 8), the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra paid tribute to the world of jazz as it was founded on the talents of…
Jazz: Bourgie Hall
A Chick Corea Rarity Since its opening in 2011, Bourgie Hall has become an indispensable venue for Montreal concertgoers. Situated within the Montreal Museum of…
The Sun Ra Arkestra: Space-Age Jazz Returns
As the joke goes, symphony orchestras are mostly 19th-century cover bands. In jazz, the big bands provide that link to the past, with “ghost bands”…
2024: The Year in Records
As 2024 comes to an end, let’s take a look (and a listen) to those releases we may have missed this year… The Sky Will…
Cecil Taylor, Dark and Luminous
In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylorby Philip FreemanWolke Verlag, 2024, 344 p. Like his contemporaries and fellow avant-garde masters Bill…
Record Reviews
Fresh sounds… AnchorsJason Stein, bass clarinet; Joshua Abrams, bass; Gerald Cleaver, drums; guest artist/co-producer Boon. TAO Forms (TAO 16), September 2024 Musicians who dedicate themselves solely…
Devin Daniels: Fire in the West
“I always tell people I’m trying to bring that toxic New York swing energy to L.A.,” saxophonist Devin Daniels confesses to Nate Chinen in the…
