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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Aretha, Wayne and Wynton
Just in time for Christmas shopping (or avoidance thereof), organizers of the Montreal International Jazz Festival have announced three concerts planned for next summer’s 34th edition. All mark the...
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Montreal International Jazz Fest 2013: Belle and Sebastian coming
Loved by the pop-geek cognescenti, the quirky indie-pop heroes Belle and Sebastian have been confirmed as one of the acts for next summer’s 34th annual Montreal International Jazz Festival (It’s OK,...
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The Montreal International Jazz Festival announces a stellar second wave
Photo of She & Him courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival The latest batch of ticketed indoor concerts announced by the organizers of the Montreal International Jazz Festival is a...
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Concert announcements: Pink Martini, the Lumineers, Ian Anderson and more
Just as you catch your breath from another batch of Montreal International Jazz Festival concert announcements, the festival organizers – always eager to keep the momentum going - hit you with a new...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: teens hear the call of the blues
Photo by Jean-François Leblanc; courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Could this be the first harbinger of summer? The call is on for would-be blues players, between the ages of 13 and...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Aretha cancels her June shows;...
Aretha Franklin has announced that she is cancelling her June appearances, according to Rolling Stone. Montreal International Jazz Festival organizers have confirmed that her June 29 festival...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Sharon Jones’s July 3 show is off
Sharon Jones has scrapped her touring schedule and the Aug. 6 release of her disc Give the People What They Want, which can only mean that her July 3 concert with the Dap-Kings, which was to take place...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: more blowouts, free outdoor shows...
Photo of John Roney courtesy of the Montreal International Jazz Festival Amadou & Mariam will close the 34th annual Montreal International Jazz Festival with a free outdoor blowout concert,...
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New music review: Big Sur, Bill Frisell (Okeh)
Commissioned for last year’s Monterey Jazz Festival, Big Sur is a series of 19 chamber-jazz sketches by Bill Frisell, whose last ill-advised move – if he has, in fact, ever made one – is too far back...
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Playlist: Michael Kaeshammer
A healthy affection for the sounds of New Orleans has always been pretty much front and center in the jazzy, boogie-woogie music of pianist and showman Michael Kaeshammer. On his latest disc, With You...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2013: Patrick Watson will preside over...
Patrick Watson will perform a pre-opening concert as part of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, organizers have confirmed. Watson and band will play at the Gesù June 25 at 8 p.m., three days...
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Playlist: Phronesis
Photo by Cat Munro/ Courtesy of Sue Edwards Management; left to right: Ivo Neame, Anton Eger, Jasper Høiby Two years to the day after they won some new fans during a free outdoor show at the 2011...
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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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