Sounds About Right: The Musician as Recording Engineer
As much as musicians are celebrated for having fashioned this art form called jazz, their efforts would probably have never reached a wider audience if…
Browsing: Scena Jazz
Years like these
Timeline 2020 As the pandemic still rages, it’s been tough sledding for the arts. Performing arts in particular have been hard hit and the outlook…
Blue Moods
Gone but not forgotten If jazz is social music, as Miles Davis once put it, the current rule of social distancing has weighed heavily against…
2020 Francos de Montreal and Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Cancelled
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and following the measures imposed by government authorities, which include cancelling non-essential activities and restricting entry of non-residents to the…
The QJLQ Story (Final Chapter)
At this time a year ago, this section presented a conversation with historian Eric Fillion, author of a book chronicling the rise and fall of…
Gone But Not Quite Forgotten
In his short lifespan, trumpeter Don Ellis was something of a free-thinker in the jazz world. In the early 1960s, he was part of the…
Something Old, Something: New Big Band Music Reloaded
During the Swing Era, jazz took over the hit parade and laid its claim as the popular music of the time. From the mid-1930s into…
Record Roundup : Continental drifts
American Grooves Michael Formanek Very Practical Trio Even Better – Intakt CD335 While the musicians on this recording are identified with the experimental jazz scene,…
AEC @ 50: Still on the Edge
With the emergence of jazz a century or so ago, the once frowned-upon practice of improvisation was thrust back into the spotlight of Western music.…
New Perspectives
…in concert: Off Jazz Festival, 20th Edition, Oct. 3-12 A year ago, change was in the air at the Off Jazz Festival in Montreal. For…
