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Charlie Biddle: Father of Montreal Jazz Festival
by Ed Hamilton
Charlie Biddle and his bass fiddle brought Jazz to Montreal and all of Quebec. Biddle died February 5th and only one city in North America really knows who he was and why he was so important to that city. Charlie as he was known to all was a bassist extraordinaire and jazz club restaurateur ...
Miles Davis: Live in Montreal
by AAJ Staff
The debate will continue to rage over whether Miles Davis' later period output (post-1980) is creative music or simply an aberration to an otherwise creative career. One thing is clear however; that the best way in which to experience the later Miles Davis bands is not through the overproduced studio albums cut for Warner Bros., but ...
Cool Jazz in a Cool City: IAJE in Toronto 2003
by Ken Dryden
Although a fellow jazz journalist expressed his sentiment about the first scheduling of IAJE outside of the U.S. by sarcastically stating “Toronto in January, ...wonderful," I was very much looking forward to my first trip to Canada. Since it sometimes is hard to sneak away very far from the conference for very long without missing too ...
IAJE Conference, Toronto 2003
by David Adler
Like a swarm of bees, jazz people of all kinds converged on Toronto for this year's IAJE conference. My stopover flight from Columbus, Ohio was full of them. I peered across the aisle and there was Luis Perdomo, along with almost all the members of Marlon Simon's Nagual Spirits. I stood in the Customs line and ...
Charlie Haden/Egberto Gismonti: In Montreal
by C. Andrew Hovan
Back in 1989, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal organized several tribute concerts surrounding bassist Charlie Haden and many of his renowned peers. Of the various and sundry combinations put on display, the pairing of Haden with Brazilian composer and master musician Egberto Gismonti was surely the most inspired. Far from a marketing ploy, this ...
Charlie Haden/Egberto Gismonti: In Montreal
by AAJ Staff
Twelve years after the fact, this live duet performance from the 1989 Montreal Jazz Festival has finally been brought to light. It's a wonderful combination: Charlie Haden is comfortable in just about any setting (consider his tenures with Ornette Coleman, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and Keith Jarrett's American Quartet). Egberto Gismonti has been continuously honing and ...
Trio X: On Tour
by John Sharpe
This is the third release by Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen, three virtuosi known collectively as Trio X. It was recorded live in March this year and must set a record for hitting the streets so quickly – all kudos to Cadence Jazz Records. Like previous releases by the group it is an intriguing ...
Tim Hagans / Bob Belden: Re-Animation: Live in Montreal
by Todd S. Jenkins
Given the technical considerations, I didn’t expect that trumpeter Tim Hagans and saxophonist Bob Belden would be able to translate their groundbreaking 1999 project, Animation/Imagination (Blue Note), to the live stage, but they proved me wrong in astonishing fashion. This new disc documents the band’s performance at the Montreal Jazz Festival with Hagans on trumpet, Belden ...
Michael Vlatkovich: TorontoLive
by Mark Corroto
Whoever said that the saxophone most closely resembles the human voice probably never heard Michael Vlatkovich’s trombone. Actually Vlatkovich sounds a lot like my uncle Rocco. He always sounded a bit tipsy, even when he wasn’t drinking. When Rocco enters a room, everyone knows it, Blap, Fwap...everyone’s happy. When Vlatkovich speaks, er sings, it’s the same ...
