In almost any other French-language city in the world, this inquiry would translate as: “Do you speak cutting-edge jazz?” But at Canada’s 44-year-old Festival International de Jazz de Montreal — ...

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The music festival landscape is incredibly saturated. Period. As summer festival lineups drop, it’s increasingly become this monotonous drivel of the same acts recycled into a slightly different ...

If you had told 18 year-old me that I would have had a blast at Montreal Jazz Fest, I would have given you a bewildered stare. While I have always been aware of jazz, it has taken me until ...

After a hiatus in 2010, in order to take a three-week Norwegian road trip, it's great to get back to the festival that the Guinness Book of Records calls "The biggest jazz festival in the world." But ...

The post Montreal Jazz Fest 2024 Offered a Blueprint for Fixing the Broken Music Festival System appeared first on Consequence. In the dimly lit back bar of a venue on Saint-Catherine Street, a woman ...

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...

When Geoff Molson bought L’Équipe Spectra in December 2013, he gave Alain Simard and André Ménard matching Habs hockey sweaters. It’s a fitting image as, 5 1/2 years later, the Montreal International ...

Since 1980, for ten days every July, the Montreal International Jazz Festival has showcased the finest living jazz legends alongside up-and-coming talent. Recognized by Guinness World Records as the ...

As cities debate how to sustain the nighttime economy while keeping residents safe, Montréal’s past reminds us that the way ...