Daily News Roundup: 7 December 2016
Jazz pianist Joey Alexander is nominated for a Grammy in the jazz solo category. The 13-year-old Indonesian was nominated last year in two jazz categories…
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Daily News Roundup: 16 November 2016
Blues musician Bob Walsh died yesterday in Montreal’s Notre Dame hospital at the age of 68. He was hospitalized on November 5 after suffering a…
Rentrée Jazz: Fall Preview
On Stage By the looks of it, there is plenty of live jazz at the Maisons de la Culture this season, and the following listings…
Take the Eight Train
With its eight pieces, the octet is an intermediate size group: larger than a jazz combo but falling short of a big band. For the…
A Festival of 1001 emotions! 37th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
Montreal, Saturday, 9 July 2016 – When it comes to musical pleasure, nothing delivered like this 37th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, presented…
This Day in Music – 1937: Death of George Gershwin
Gershwin, one of the main catalysts for jazz to become America’s music, was a composer and pianist who bridged popular and classical modes. His prolific…
CD Review – The Claudia Quintet: Super Petite (Cuneiform Records)
Named after a term used to describe a friend of the band, Super Petite from Cuneiform Records’ Claudia Quintet fuses dense, eclectic, and complex ideas…
Video of the Day – Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – “K.K.P.D.”
New Orleans trumpet player Christian Scott is the driving force behind Stretch Music, a genre that aims to “stretch” jazz’s structural foundations to coalesce various…
“Mozart was born in New Orleans!” Paquito D’Rivera at FMCM Review
“The most beautiful piece written for the clarinet is Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major and we did a study on it at the Louisiana…
Jazz: Festive Collaborations
François Bourassa’s Pianorama In the years following his breakthrough as winner of the Montreal Jazz Festival Competition in 1985, pianist François Bourassa has constantly evolved.…
