Ottawa Jazz Fest

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  Brian Wilson presents 'Pet Sounds'

  Confederation Park Main Stage, Ottawa ON, July 3

  PUBLISHED Jul 4, 2016

  "Love and mercy, that's what you need tonight," sang Brian Wilson on the closing night of the Ottawa Jazz Festival (July 3). "So, love and...

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  Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

  Confederation Park Main Stage, Ottawa ON, June 29

  PUBLISHED Jun 30, 2016

  Wynton Marsalis, the distinguished New Orleans-born trumpeter and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, was master of ceremonies in...

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  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Confederation Park Main Stage, Ottawa ON, June 28

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2016

  Buffy Sainte-Marie stopped her opener "It's My Way" mid-song with apologies about an uncooperative machine on Tuesday (June 28). Unfazed th...

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  The Thing

  NAC Back Stage, Ottawa ON, June 28

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2016

  "The world is, of course, changing," said Mats Gustafsson, the Swedish saxophonist, "and it's far from equilibrium, I think we can all agre...

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  Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld

  NAC Back Stage, Ottawa ON, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2016

  Inside the hexagonal back stage of the NAC Studio, Sarah Neufeld and Colin Stetson kicked off the festival's first Monday (June 27) with a...

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  Ben Caplan

  Scène Tartan Homes Stage, Ottawa ON, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2016

  Sitting and singing animatedly at a Steinway Grand piano on the Tartan Homes Stage in front of City Hall, Ben Caplan looked positively debo...

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  Dan Brubeck Quartet

  Confederation Park Main Stage, Ottawa ON, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2016

  The California-born, Vancouver-based Dan Brubeck took his quartet through a series of jazz standards yesterday, most of which were written...

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  Colin Stetson

  NAC Studio, Ottawa ON, June 27

  PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2016

  On Monday night (June 27), a semi-circle of ten musicians in the NAC Studio performed the Ottawa debut of a recreated symphony by a Polish...