The Montreal Jazz Festival is overwhelming in a way, but somehow genial, and finally inspiring.
Montreal Jazz Festival
Jazz Review: Montreal Jazz Festival — An Ecosystem That Celebrates Sound
Berber guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar proved that the gifts behind the fingers are still all that matters.
Jazz Review: Second Dispatch from the 39th Montréal Jazz Festival
One of the most astonishing sets of my week in Montreal featured two Frenchmen, accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien.
Jazz Review: A Dispatch from the 39th Montréal Jazz Festival
Among the festival’s highlights: pianist-singer Jeremy Dutcher, who arrived on the stage of the tiny space Gésu dressed in shorts and a long flowing black robe with a hood.
