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 — ...

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 ...

One of the charges that has historically been leveled against the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (the FIJM, or popularly, the Montreal Jazz Festival) is that the programming had gone from ...

The Montreal Jazz Festival has ultimately cancelled performances of the controversial show SLĀV, which features a mostly-white cast performing African-American slave songs. The show was protested by ...

Montreal has never been called the birthplace of jazz. But for the past three decades, the city has been pivotal in stoking the genre's flames via the ever-growing Montreal Jazz Festival. Kicking off ...

The Montreal International Jazz Festival is one of the biggest and most diverse celebration of the genre in the world. But how did Montreal first become known for jazz? For our latest Sense of Place ...

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 ...

On a breezy summer night in Montreal, the air crackled with something far cooler than jazz clichés. Under the ornate ceiling of the Maison symphonique, an unlikely king took the stage. Clad in a black ...

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 ...

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As the biggest and one of the oldest jazz festivals in the world, it’s no surprise that Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is supremely well organised, has excellent indoor and outdoor venues ...

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— better ...