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Patrick Watson

Marie-Soleil Lambert

Marie-Soleil Lambert is a Montreal-based jazz vocalist, composer, bassist and artist.  Passionate about art, creation, storytelling, scat improvisation and writing, she is enthusiastic about life and music.

Displaying her growth as a musician and a composer, Marie-Soleil takes the reins of her sextet Sun Fantasia formed in 2022 and has released her debut album, ‘’Free Spirit’’ in January 2023. A second album, entitled ''Anastasia'', has been released on November the 5th 2025. Craving to set a new sound in jazz, the composer infuses her music with influences from other musicians, such as Chick Corea, Weather Report, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa and with different styles to create something original and personal. With hints of modern jazz music and even a drop of progressive rock, Sun Fantasia transports you to a musical and artistic universe that stands out for its narrative and fantastical dimension. Each piece is a painting, and the works are a pure representation of art; they are sophisticated, unique, and surprising, yet well balanced between spontaneity and precise writing techniques.

Kate Wyatt Trio: Murmurations

by Neil Duggan
October 30, 2025

Murmurations, the dazzling aerial spectacle of starlings swirling together to form ever-changing shapes, is an apt title for this album from the Kate Wyatt Trio. The trio show a similar intuitive understanding, moving in unity while remaining attuned to each member's subtle shifts. Kate Wyatt is a Montreal pianist with a string of recordings ...

Ignasi Terraza: With Respect To Oscar And Niels

by Artur Moral
October 8, 2025

Exceptionalism is often presented with a spectacular surface. However, it also hides itself behind multiple layers of deep discretion. This is true with pianist, composer, educator and record producer Ignasi Terraza. His uniqueness is based on several facts: being the first blind person in Spain to earn--a mid-1980s achievement, without today's technology--a degree in Computer Engineering; ...

Children of the Light: Forging New Footprints

by Jiaowei Hu
September 29, 2025

"The trio is a real laboratory for colours, voices, and ways of playing interactions," says the Panamanian-born jazz pianist Danilo Pérez. With bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade, Pérez has forged a bond over two decades in Wayne Shorter's last and yet groundbreaking Footprints Quartet. After Shorter withdrew from the public eye, the three sidemen ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2025

by Mark Sullivan
July 16, 2025

Various Venues Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 28-July 2, 2025 The headliners of the 45th edition of the festival included names like Gospel legend Mavis Staples, Canadian rockers Blue Rodeo, Canadian Inuk musician Elisapie, New Orleans musician Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Nigerian singer/songwriter Ayra Starr, Canadian ...

Daniel Áñez

Colombian pianist born in Cartagena, Colombia, 1982, Daniel Áñez started his piano studies at 9 with teachers Liliana Hernández and Mauricio Villa. In 2005 he received his Musician Pianist with Honors undergraduate diploma from the Los Andes University, Bogota, where he studied with Ignacio Pacheco and Antonio Carbonell. In 2009 he finished his Master's Degree in piano performance at the University of Montreal, where he studied with Paul Stewart. He’s also a doctorate piano graduate from the University of Montreal, where he studied with Paul Stewart and Lorraine Vaillancourt. In 2009 he studied history and analysis of Latin-American music with Coriún Aharonián. In 2016 he completed a 5th cycle advanced training course certificate in music, performance, research and history from the Conservatory of Music of Montreal in the performance of the Ondes Martenot with Estelle Lemire.

Benoit LeBlanc

Sortiesjazznights.com 22nd Birthday Bash, Community Jazz Jam on May 2nd

March 28, 2025

sortiesjazznights.com is celebrating it’s 22nd birthday with the greater jazz community Friday May 2nd at La Sala Rossa! This is our 3rd yearly party and jam session and is the largest meeting of the Québec greater jazz community. The 2024 party was at the Patro Vys with a full house of friends, musicians, collaborators and partners ...

Philippe Massé

Born: January 20, 2000

Philippe Massé is a Montreal jazz double bassist and composer who incorporates elements of Middle Eastern, Latin and sometimes metal music, creating his own unique style. 

Philippe studied at Cégep Marie-Victorin and Université of Montréal, where he was mentored by Pierre-Alexandre Maranda, Sébastien Pellerin and Frédéric Alarie. In 2020, Philippe founded his trio with the aim of pushing back the boundaries of Modern Western jazz, incorporating elements of Oriental music to create a unique musical style close to his idols.

It wasn't until 2023 that he formed his final trio with university colleagues Sacha Desjardins on the piano and Alexandre Massé on the drums, resulting in his first album, Le vent, to be released in 2025.