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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Serena Ryder at Club Soda; July 2,...
You really have to hand it to Serena Ryder. There aren’t many singer-songwriters who work as hard to get love from the audience. Fewer still can get even a skeptic to wave the white flag. Ryder gives...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Alain Caron receives the Oscar...
Photo courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival Bassist Alain Caron is set to receive his Oscar Peterson Award when he performs tonight (Wednesday, July 3) at the Gesù, having been first...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: She & Him at Salle...
Photo of Zooey Deschanel from Gazette files; photographers, at the request of She & Him, were not allowed in the concert. The Montreal International Jazz Festival debut of pop duo She & Him...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Lyle Lovett at Salle...
Thursday night was one of those direct-conflict nights at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the kind that forces you to make difficult choices. Which is how I came to miss Chris Isaak’s...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Bettye LaVette and Wanda Jackson...
(Note: There are no photos from the concert, as photographers were barred from the venue at the request of Wanda Jackson. But the Montreal International Jazz Festival has provided video of a tiny bit...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Belle & Sebastian at Salle...
Photos by Dario Ayala/ The Gazette. Above: Stuart Murdoch (left) and Stevie Jackson. Below: a fan gets swept away. Has such raw truth been spoken from the stage in recent memory? “We thought we’d play...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Julie Lamontagne and the Opus Jazz...
It was a concert we might not have realized we needed. When Julie Lamontagne released her excellent solo piano album, Opus Jazz, last year, it felt like the arrangements were complete. With only her...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: The Soweto Gospel Choir at the...
Photo by Frédérique Ménard-Aubin; courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. It was a particularly animated Saturday night prayer meeting. And it was easy to imagine that God himself was...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Porn Flakes pay tribute to the...
Photo courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival Maybe there’s a future in bringing more tribute bands to the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Porn Flakes (by the way, there might be...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: The Specials at Metropolis; July...
It could have been a last-minute highlight. It should have been the place to be on the closing night of the 34th Montreal International Jazz Festival. The Specials, with five of the band’s original...
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