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Lex French

Born: November, 1983

New Zealand-born jazz trumpet player Lex French, hailed by Radio Canada jazz critic Stanley Pean as “an extraordinary trumpeter,” is fast becoming a bright star on the Canadian jazz scene.

French possesses a unique voice on the trumpet and plays with technical virtuosity and abiding musical inventiveness, often being compared to legendary trumpeters Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, and Kenny Wheeler. He is also an internationally sought-after composer and arranger and has recently been commissioned to write works for jazz orchestra, jazz quartet, and string quartet. He holds a Doctorate of Music from McGill University.

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2026

by Mark Sullivan
July 16, 2026

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montreal, Canada June 30-July 4, 2026 The 46th edition of the Festival presented over 350 shows, two-thirds of which were free. The festival organizing team highlighted performances by legendary jazz-funk band The Headhunters, the Charles Lloyd Quartet, St. Vincent Symphonique (a series of ...

Divine Apology

By Saku Mantere

Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2025
Track listing: Meditation; Sorrow; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; Lapin Äidin Kehtolaulu; Not Fair; Velvet; The Last Romantic; Ensin Toinen; Emerald Angel; Marty's Song

Meditation

November 20, 2025

Album: Divine Apology
By Saku Mantere
Label: Orchard of Pomegranates
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:19

Of What Remains

By Melissa Pipe

Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Complainte du vent; La part des anges; Ici, ainsi; Fragment no. 2; Apothecium; Complaint du vent (reprise); Day; Puudutus.

Harbour

By Christine Jensen

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Passing Lion's Gate; Swirlaround; Wink; Surge; Harbour; Cascadian Fragments; Fantasy On Blue.

Jim West: 40 Years and Going Strong at Justin Time Records

by Kerilie McDowall
April 4, 2024

Owner of Canada's Justin Time Records, the multi-award-winning Jim West, has brought stellar top performers from the Canadian music scene and the USA to the global stage since 1983 for almost half a century, and that's some heavyweight “cred." To celebrate, the label has crafted a compilation, 40 Years of ...

L'Origine Eclat​ee

By Jean-Marc Hebert

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: La déteinte; L'Origine éclatée; Séquence mouvante; Terre rouge (trio); L'Attente; Deux ombres; Sud-Ouest.

Melissa Pipe Sextet: Of What Remains

by Hrayr Attarian
May 19, 2023

On the enchanting Of What Remains, her debut as a leader, Canadian saxophonist and bassoonist Melissa Pipe delightfully blurs the boundaries between jazz and western classical music. Pipe leads a cohesive sextet on seven of her haunting originals, on the theme of time, and an arrangement of Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits' “Puudutus." For instance, ...

La parte des anges

April 30, 2023

Album: Of What Remains
By Melissa Pipe
Label: Odd Sound Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 08:30