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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2008: Days 1-3

by A. Henkin
June 29, 2008

Days 1-3 | Days 4-5 | Days 6-8 | Days 9-11 June 26th It would be perfectly understandable for the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal to “take a year off" in 2008. Next year will be the festival's 30th anniversary and this year presents logistical challenges with the loss of a few ...

Leonard Cohen Montreal's Poet Son Heralds Its Festival

June 29, 2008

Leonard Cohen played three concerts on the eve of the Montreal International Jazz Festival. MONTREAL -- On Wednesday night, in the last of his three concerts presented as preludes to the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Leonard Cohen, the 73-year-old hometown poet-hero on tour for the first time in 15 years, said that on his last time ...

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2008: Days 4-6, June 23-25, 2008

by John Kelman
June 28, 2008

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 | Days 10- 11 Renaud Garcia-Fons / Corkestra / Lee Konitz Mimi Fox / Amir Amiri / Berne, Anker, Speed TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 23-25, 2008

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2008: Days 1-3, June 20-22, 2008

by John Kelman
June 25, 2008

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8 | Days 10-11 Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis Cosmos /Harris Eisenstadt / Iro Haarla TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 20-22, 2008 In the days leading up to the 2008 ...

The Government of Canada Supports Jazz Winnipeg

June 24, 2008

Residents and visitors to Winnipeg will have the opportunity to enjoy a variety of jazz performances and expand their appreciation of music, thanks to an investment by the Government of Canada. Steven Fletcher, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Member of Parliament (Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia), on behalf of the Honourable Josee Verner, Minister of Canadian ...

The Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: The Refined Brilliance of Heart and Mind

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 23, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4Egberto Gismonti and Friends break the crystal silence of an unforgettable night. An invitation was extended by the Art of Jazz: Come to the 2008 Celebration and be captivated, inspired, excited and entertained. In covering jazz festivals for over 25 years in four ...

Dom Minasi Trio at the Ottawa Jazz Festval

June 19, 2008

Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: A Tale of The Sorcerer and The Storyteller

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 19, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Hermeto Pascoal and Sheila Jordan, center-stage at the Art of Jazz Celebration It was billed as “The Global Village": A place where jazz legends, lions and lovers come together to explore rhythmic intricacies and tonal colors from all over the map... where jazz ...

Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: A Legend Kick-Starts Summer Jazz in Toronto

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 18, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Celebrating Jazz Icon, John Norris Miles Davis once famously suggested that the term “legend" ought never be applied to those people still alive--artist or otherwise. But there are times when a person--artist or otherwise-- achieves so much in his lifetime that one ...

Art of Jazz Celebration 2008: The Ripple from Africa That Became an Ocean of Sound

by Raul d'Gama Rose
June 18, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Ancient Future with Randy Weston at the Art of Jazz Celebration Before he even sits down to play, Randy Weston fills a room... a venue if he has to. Then he pulls back the piano stool, stretches out his arms and the ...