Blue Moods
Gone but not forgotten If jazz is social music, as Miles Davis once put it, the current rule of social distancing has weighed heavily against…
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AEC @ 50: Still on the Edge
With the emergence of jazz a century or so ago, the once frowned-upon practice of improvisation was thrust back into the spotlight of Western music.…
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…
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…
Jazz – Record Roundup
by Marc Chénard, Benjamin Goron et Éric Champagne Jazz at the movies The Romance of Improvisation in Canada / Justin Time – JTR 8613-2 Given…
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…
Carla Bley cancels Montreal appearance
Montreal’s Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ) and the city’s jazz festival (FIJM) regret to announce the cancellation of Carla Bley and Steve Swallow’s appearance on…
Music and Beyond: Pushing Boundaries
Music and Beyond, the annual classical music and arts festival, has been springing to glorious life throughout the city of Ottawa every July since 2010.…
EFFENDI RECORDS: MEETINGS OF THE MINDS
Since its arrival on the scene, Montreal’s Effendi Records has championed the cause of contemporary mainstream jazz. It has done so by issuing a steady…
Effendi Records: Two Decades and Still Going Strong
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Effendi Records, Montreal’s premier label for home-grown contemporary mainstream jazz. “Effendi”, if you didn’t know, is a word of…
