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In 2020, for the first time in its 40-year history the International Montreal Jazz Festival was cancelled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in what would have been its 41st edition. [10] In 2021, because of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the 41st edition was postponed until autumn, reduced to 5 days, and limited to outdoor performances, while ...
The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes over 2 million visitors (12.5% of whom are tourists) as well as 300 accredited journalists.
Bickert was known for popularizing the use of solid-body guitars, rare among jazz artists at that time, which produced a distinct and signature tone. Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, who moved to the UK in the 1950s, released a number of albums on ECM Records in the 70s and 80s. [17] Also recorded by ECM was Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley.
Montreux Jazz Festival takes place this summer across two weeks and multiple venues, with The Independent as the event’s exclusive global media partner
With most festival-goers a little sauced, this festival can’t help but become a relaxed and friendly social event that just happens to have 100 or so artists performing over its four-day stretch.
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( May 2019 ) This is a list of artists that have performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival .
April 14 – First day of Coachella 2023, a two weekend event, occurs.Jazz musicians in attendance are The Comet is Coming and Domi and JD Beck [4]; April 15 – After 8 years, British band GoGo Penguin's contract with Blue Note Records ends, and the band switches to XXIM Records, a record label more typically associated with neoclassical music and progressive electronic music.
Nov. 27—It's time to make your plans for the 32nd annual Boscov's Berks Jazz Fest, scheduled for Friday, March 24, through Sunday, April 2, 2023. The festival's spectacular lineup of some of the ...