Daily News Roundup: 8 July 2016
+ Canadian violinist and winner of the OSM’s Manulife Competition in 2004, Nikki Chooi has been named the new concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera. +…
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CD Review – The Claudia Quintet: Super Petite (Cuneiform Records)
Named after a term used to describe a friend of the band, Super Petite from Cuneiform Records’ Claudia Quintet fuses dense, eclectic, and complex ideas…
Video of the Day – Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – “K.K.P.D.”
New Orleans trumpet player Christian Scott is the driving force behind Stretch Music, a genre that aims to “stretch” jazz’s structural foundations to coalesce various…
Daily News Roundup: 7 July 2016
+ The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble is coming to Cinéma du Parc on July 29. The movie will be…
Daily News Roundup: 6 July 2016
+ Cleveland Classical talks with guitarist Denis Azabagić about winning prizes, his wife and duo partner flautist Eugenia Moliner, and practice philosophy. “I remember when…
This Day in Music – 1937: Benny Goodman records “Sing, Sing, Sing”
On July 6th 1937, Benny Goodman recorded New Orleans swing standard “Sing, Sing, Sing” in Hollywood with his band. Goodman would go on to make…
“When you sing, I can’t die, I live forever” Lila Downs at the FIJM
Lila Downs performed last Saturday night at the Métropolis theatre for the Montreal International Jazz Festival. Close to 2,000 fans gathered to see the singer-songwriter…
Daily News Roundup: 5 July 2016
+ Read Jeanne Hourez’s review of Nicholas Angelich’s latest release of Liszt, Schumann, and Chopin. (French) + Jacques Lacombe was invited to the Tanglewood Music…
Video of the Day – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers “Dat Dere”
In light of the ongoing Montreal Jazz Festival, here’s a wonderful live performance of the pianist Bobby Timmons’s “Dat Dere” by Art Blakey and the…
Daily News Roundup: 4 July 2016
+ Read Wah Keung Chan’s review of Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna at the Montreal international Jazz Festival this past weekend. “While there is much to…
