Music
This year’s Montreal Jazz Festival Festival would have been more successful had it not been for all the construction ripping apart the city.
This world-premiere recording of the 1826 Paris version of Gaspare Spontini’s Olimpie makes a powerful case for a composer much admired in his own day.
The Rolling Stones were still up there, sounding vital, and that alone delivered satisfaction.
A sense of promise remains a hallmark of the Montreal Jazz Festival — always end by looking forward.
Saturday’s performance made up for a rain delay withthe longest single set since the band’s millennium-greeting Everglades marathon.
The Montreal Jazz Festival is overwhelming in a way, but somehow genial, and finally inspiring.
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Wilco went all-in this year for a personal bond, inviting internet-culled winners onstage for live-band karaoke with the group.
Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony is his third effort in the grand form.
Satoko Fujii and Ramon Lopez are clear-eyed adventurers; this is free jazz that shimmers with inquisitive transparency.
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