The Vinyl Hunter – Where to shop for vinyl records in Chicago Vinyl hunting in a city that you are visiting for a short period of time requires good preparation. You need to do a bit of research on each store...
DAVID FRIESEN – Double Bass Masterclass In the 70s, there weren't that many double bass players that could rivet an audience to their seat with a solo performance. Tacoma-born David Friesen...
MELANIE DE BIASIO – The Black Soul Melanie De Biasio has this aura around her. Her soft voice feels haunted when on top of the mysterious folk rock her musicians produce for her. It...
MYRIAD3 – It’s All in the Details My evening started at the Club Jazz stage, near the Gésù, where Toronto trio Myriad3 were finishing a few of their own compositions and were...
NEIL COWLEY TRIO – On the Edge If The Bad Plus are the most rock of all jazz bands, English musicians in Neil Cowley's Trio probably are the most jazz of all rock bands! At the...
JESSE MAC CORMACK is a stellar cover band The Jazz Fest chose a new path for exploration this year with series Re:Creation, giving artists the opportunity to revisit a music repertoire and...
BRIA SKONBERG – Jazz is Fun! Classic jazz and the repertoire from the 40s is the type of music that is fun to rediscover. That was the pop music of the avant-guerre era!...
ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT – What is now Shaping is a different job than reinventing. The sound of deriving is originative, and Robert Glasper has declared that jazz has become a museum of...
SHABAKA & THE ANCESTORS – No Frontiers! It is quite a feast that the six-piece band from South Africa served the public at the Gésù last night, at the Montreal Jazz Fest. Afrobeat, free...
GIOVANNI GUIDI – GIANLUCA PETRELLA – Emerging Talents from Italy Almost all the albums that are stamped with the ECM label logo promise to be excellent, or at least, interesting. Each breathes quality. The music of...
ALA.NI – Time-travelling enchantement Some of us knew it already: it is extremely difficult not to fall under the charm of the the London-based new sensation. A number who those who did...
BILAL: Synthesizing Authenticity and influences For now over decade, Bilal has been prominent figure of the R&B scene, a genre that is significantly less celebrated here than among our southern...
VOLCAN TRIO – Pure Freedom! The supergroup formed by pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, bassist Armando Gola and drummer Horacio “el Negro” Hernandez delivered high-voltage free...
MISC – What is great jazz? What is great jazz? This question can have lots of different answers, depending on whom you ask it to. There are different tastes, different currents...
Montreal Jazz Festival Opening Day – Free Shows Walkabout Montreal Jazz Fest is so big at this point, it's hard to walk around the dedicated entire neighbourhood blocked off for it. So many people, from...
What to see at the 2016 MONTREAL JAZZ FEST… per venue News Release from Spectra - Montreal, Tuesday April 26, 2016 — It’s an indoor program that combines quality, abundance and diversity! The 37th...
What’s hot in JAZZ in 2015? A top 10 list is very hard to do as there is so much more out there to enjoy. I tried to keep it as local as possible, because here in Montreal and...
MELODY GARDOT – Soul Woman Jazz singer Melody Gardot signed one of the most interesting albums of the year. Her unique blend of pure jazz ballads (Morning Sun), cool soul funk...
JOEL GIBEROVITCH, from Upstairs: “Running a jazz club is not a job, it is a lifestyle.” Among the most passionate people about music are those who work in the music industry: at labels, as press relation people, as concert promoters, as...
Top Outdoors Free Shows at the MONTREAL JAZZ FEST 2015 After my article highlighting the top 5 shows to see indoors, here are the top 5 shows you should see outdoors, at the 36th Montreal Jazz Festival...
Top Indoors shows at MONTREAL JAZZ FEST 2015 There are hundreds of great concerts at the 36th edition of the famous Montreal Jazz Fest. Here are my selection of top shows to see indoors (you'll...
EMMA FRANK, in a dark place Emma Frank is a Montreal jazz singer that doesn't choose the easy way to get into someone's mind. Her complex melodies require the listener's full...
POKEY LAFARGE. Drink up, it’s Pokey. Before I start on Mr Lafarge’s latest album. Please take a look at this clip. His last show in Montreal. Was present. Had beer spilled on by...
Blown away by Em Pompa’s BELLFLOWER "The Lotus Factor” is an album that I keep pressing play whenever I want to escape from my lovely jazz world. Blown away by the feelings of this...
