The Year on Record
Our picks for some of 2025’s best releases. The Birdsong Project Presents: Birdly Serenade David Murray Quartet: David Murray (tenor sax, bass clarinet), Marta Sanchez…
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Benjamin Deschamps: Taking Jazz Above and Beyond
At a relatively young age, saxophonist Benjamin Deschamps has already garnered some impressive credentials: Révélation Jazz for Radio Canada/CBC in 2017–18 and winner of the…
From Coast to Coast
Recommended Fall gigs Vancouver For an Easterner, the Vancouver jazz scene always seems bursting with activity. This reviewer admits being a bit jealous of all…
Fall 2025: Focus on Rimouski and Guelph
Now that summer is almost over, the loud festival sets digested, the family vacation ended, some of us (maybe still smelling of campfires and bug…
Summer 2025: jazz festival season
Rain or shine, for jazz fans summer always means one thing: festival season. As always, La Scena Musicale offers a wide selection of interesting shows…
Hugo Blouin’s “Sport National”
Hockey stories for voice(s) and jazz ensemble Last February, at the Prix Opus gala, double bassist and composer Hugo Blouin was awarded the prize for…
Jazz: Bourgie Hall
A Chick Corea Rarity Since its opening in 2011, Bourgie Hall has become an indispensable venue for Montreal concertgoers. Situated within the Montreal Museum of…
The Sun Ra Arkestra: Space-Age Jazz Returns
As the joke goes, symphony orchestras are mostly 19th-century cover bands. In jazz, the big bands provide that link to the past, with “ghost bands”…
2024: The Year in Records
As 2024 comes to an end, let’s take a look (and a listen) to those releases we may have missed this year… The Sky Will…
Cecil Taylor, Dark and Luminous
In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylorby Philip FreemanWolke Verlag, 2024, 344 p. Like his contemporaries and fellow avant-garde masters Bill…
