Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn: A Joint Venture and Beyond
With no shortage of means at its disposal, the Festival international de jazz de Montréal is set to party in style this year, and with…
Browsing: Scena Jazz
Musique actuelle: Book Review
A keen observer of the new music scene in Montreal, Réjean Beaucage has taken to the task of demystifying that slightly strange bird known as musique…
Record Roundup From Modern to Contemporary
In our February jazz section, we discussed the meaning of the above terms in jazz. The three recordings under review serve to illustrate the points…
QJLQ: Backroom Revolution
In its day, the late 1960s, the Quatuor de Jazz libre du Québec (QJLQ) was the first local band dedicated to the cause of free…
ECM Records – From Modern to Contemporary
If Blue Note’s main accomplishment was to define the shape of modern jazz by successfully negotiating its transition out of the classic era, ECM Records…
Blue Note Records – From Classicism to Modernism
Few record labels have left a deeper imprint on jazz than Blue Note Records. Not only does its name speak for itself, but its catalogue…
A Contemporary Take on Jazz
For music listeners at large, the term “contemporary music” is associated to a body of works created over the past century from the Second Viennese…
Jessye Norman names Cécile McLorin Salvant winner of the Glenn Gould Protégé Prize
January 10, 2019 – TORONTO – Jessye Norman, winner of the Twelfth Glenn Gould Prize, has selected the gifted American jazz singer and composer, Cécile McLorin Salvant, as…
Jazz – Record Roundup
by Marc Chénard, Benjamin Goron et Éric Champagne Jazz at the movies The Romance of Improvisation in Canada / Justin Time – JTR 8613-2 Given…
The Quiet Radical – John Heward (1934-2018)
Artists generally confine their work to one field. Painters and sculptors, for instance, are not so involved in any of the performing arts. These require…
