Jazz

Jonah Yano Brought Fake Storms and Real Feelings to Montreal

Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal QC, June 29

PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2023

For years now, it seems like the Montreal International Jazz Festival has broadened the meaning of jazz, and opened the door to artists ope...

TD Toronto Jazz Fest Reinstates Outdoor Programming

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023

After postponing its outdoor programming yesterday (June 28) due to air pollution from forest fires in Northeastern Ontario and Quebec, TD...

Léon Phal Brought Gallic Élan to Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 28

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023

Sponsored by the French Embassy of Canada, Champagne native Léon Phal played the smaller Fourth Stage inside the National Arts Centre on We...

Mark Guiliana Brought the Precision and Punctuality

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 28

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023

Perhaps the most exclusive slot of the festival thus far, it was only with some effort that even the illustrious press were able to make th...

Borrowed Instruments and Soggy Skies Couldn't Keep the Mary Ancheta Quartet Down in Ottawa

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 26

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

Battling less-than-great air quality and some frankly unpredictable weather at the festival's 6:30 pm main stage slot, we were greeted by t...

Little Animal! Showed Ottawa Their Weirdo-Jazz Bonafides

Ottawa Jazz Festival, June 26

PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023

Mercifully tented, the OLG stage was the place to be on a stormy Monday night; shielding from the elements, incubating the jazz. The 7:30 s...

Peter Brötzmann, Celebrated Free Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 82

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2023

Peter Brötzmann — the acclaimed German free jazz saxophonist who released over 50 albums across his career and recorded with Cecil Taylor,...

Posthumous jaimie branch Album Announced with New Song "take over the world"

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2023

A posthumous album by late American trumpeter and composer jaimie branch has been announced. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))...