Ladies First
By now there are international days of just about everything, and surely one for every calendar date, even for that added one in leap years.…
Browsing: Scena Jazz
Off the Record: Four of a Kind
New Standards Vol. 1 Candid Records The flip side of Terri Lyne Carrington’s aforementioned fake book (see feature article here), this album covers 11 of…
News | 2023 JUNO Award Nominees Announced
The Juno Awards just announced their nominees. Here are the finalists in the classical and jazz categories. VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR I ALBUM…
Interview | Ranee Lee @ Centaur Theatre – Viva la Diva!
Any town with a decent jazz scene has at least one good diva of popular song. In Montreal few, if any, would dispute Ranee Lee’s…
The Record Round-Up 2022
Bass is the Place Michel Donato et ses amis québécois / Effendi FND 166 Having turned 80 last summer, Michel Donato has not yet played his last…
Charles McPherson – The Artistry of Linear Logic
The list of jazz musicians whose reputations grew out of an association with others as famous than them, if not more, is quite long. Think…
OFJM 2022: Bolder than Ever
A year after its truncated 2020 edition, Montreal’s Off Jazz Festival (OFJM) returned with a slate of 20 events, many of which sold out on…
Backstage at Carnegie Hall: Opera by Tim Brady
Tim Brady is very single-minded. For six years, he has nurtured his opera about the history of the electric guitar, as personified by its pioneer,…
Off the Record: Have Trumpet Will Excite
While summer is the time for most to take leave from the rat race, music journalists are not so fortunate. Between running around at festivals,…
Fall Previews – On Stage and Off the Record
By the looks of it, Montreal’s music scene is back on track for the fall season, unless COVID-19 throws yet another curveball at us with…
