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Montreal Jazz Festival 2004 Notebook, Part 1-3
by Ken Franckling
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Silver anniversary spectacle In addition to its 150 indoor ticketed concerts over 12 nights, downtown Montreal was bubbling with its usual crowd-pleasing mix of musical on 10 outdoor stages, street performers and people watching. If anything, the fact that it is the festival's 25th year, has intensified the ...
Buddy Rich Live at the 1982 Montreal Jazz Festival
by John Kelman
When one thinks of drummer Buddy Rich what comes to mind, first and foremost, are impressions of a brash personality and an even more outgoing drumming style. And while it is true that the majority of Rich's output with his various big bands falls in the camp of extroversion with bold, bright virtuoso playing, equally impressive ...
John Geggie/Sunna Gunnlaugs/Justin Haynes Ottawa, Canada May 22, 2004
by John Kelman
With a season has seen everything from duets with pianist Marilyn Crispell to trios with saxophonist Mike Murley and drummer Jim Doxas, bassist John Geggie chose, on May 22, 2004, to close off this year’s “No Boundaries” series in a quiet and intimate chamber jazz setting, featuring Icelandic ex-pat, pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, and Canadian guitarist Justin ...
Montreal Jazz Festival: As Sterling As Silver
by Ed Hamilton
Anniversaries and birthdays are synonymous with the beginnings of wonderful occurrences. The Festival International de Jazz de Montreal--a Sterling Silver conglomerance of Jazz sounds known round the world as the Montreal Jazz Festival, celebrates its 25th birthday. Andre Menard and cofounder-Alain Simard solidified the festival in 1979 organizing a week of various musical encounters. FIJM again, ...
John Geggie, 'No Boundaries' Series with Mike Murley and Jim Doxas
by John Kelman
Ottawa, Canada April 4, 2004 First the bad news. Veteran Ottawa bassist/composer/educator John Geggie, whose ongoing series of musical collaborations called “No Boundaries” has been deservingly successful for its sense of daring and invention, had planned a series of duets with Swedish bass legend Anders Jormin. Unfortunately, at the last minute, Jormin had to ...
Jean Beaudet Trio: Les Danseurs
by John Kelman
Risk-taking is endemic to jazz; however what can appear to be a chancy approach, in the final analysis, can also be merely shtick--the much-hyped The Bad Plus being a prime example. Canadian pianist Jean Beaudet knows all about risk. With a recording career that now extends back twenty-five years, he has been touted as the torch-taker ...
du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival, Toronto
by Jerry D'Souza
Jazz in its varied permutations, the blues and world music all came together at the 15th du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival in Toronto. This mix has been coming into the festival for some time now, for better or for worse. For better because it brings in an audience and for worse because some of that audience ...
Le Festival International De Jazz De Montreal 2001 Part 1-2
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Tom Terrell A nice cat manning the Festival's airport kiosk name of Nicola got me a ride into town. I got the VIP treatment at the Hotel Wyndham Montreal, met old friends in the press room (Claudia, Natalie, Katia, Alain), new faces (Sophie, Myriam) and the estimable Andre Menard (Premier VP and ...
Montreal Jazz Festival 2001
by Andrey Henkin
Jazz festivals can be an exercise in anticipation: Look forward to the first show, then the next, then the one after and then the festival ends. The hectic schedule means one concert is barely over by the time you are scrambling to find your seat at the next.The Montreal Jazz Festival alleviates this difficulty in ...
Chick Corea @ Montreal Jazz Festival
by Matthew S. Robinson
Armed with a piano and percussion set, the 2002 Miles Davis Award winner opened with a song for his father and then took the packed hall on a tribute trip through much of the rest of storied musical family. “Armando's Rhumba" began with tribal thunder on the toms, but quickly switched to a playfully vibe-y piano, ...
