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The Montreal Jazz Festival (later: Montreal International Jazz Festival) was conceived by Alain Simard, who had spent much of the 1970s working with Productions Kosmos bringing artists such as Chuck Berry, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and others to Montreal to perform.
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.
Albert King; Average White Band (AWB); Ben E. King; Billy Cobham; Bob James; Bonnie Raitt; Charles Mingus; Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; Clark Terry; Count Basie; Dizzy ...
Montreux Jazz Festival takes place this summer across two weeks and multiple venues, with The Independent as the event’s exclusive global media partner
The album was recorded in Brooklyn, New York, and mixed and mastered in Montreal. It was produced by Kyp Malone, and featured a lineup including Malone, Mike Pride, Matt Lavelle, Stuart Bogie, and Darius Jones. It covers a variety of genres, including folk, post-rock, and multiple subgenres of jazz. The album was received positively by critics ...
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.
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Many Canadian cities host one or more jazz festivals. The Montreal International Jazz Festival, for instance, is the largest in the world. [19] Other prominent Canadian jazz festivals include the Winnipeg International Jazz Festival, the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Jazz Festival, and the Toronto Jazz Festival.