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Jul 4, 2024 · Robert Glasper at the Montreal Jazz Festival, 2024. Photo by Cindy Lopez On Canada Day, the crowd gave it up to festival regular, modern jazz and Black music icon and key-killer Robert Glasper , who simply had a great time on the main outdoor stage — jamming on tracks from his Black Radio album series, paying tribute to J Dilla and giving his incredible band equal shine as the holiday ...
Jun 28, 2024 · The book also has stories about the various musicians Simard got close to over the years at the jazz festival, including memories of Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Vic Vogel, Miles Davis and B.B. King.
- Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette
Jun 24, 2022 · The Montreal International Jazz Festival’s VP in charge of programming has played a key role in selecting the acts that take the stages of our city’s biggest music event for the past 23 years ...
Apr 4, 2023 · The Montreal International Jazz Festival unveiled an all-star lineup on Monday that includes a range of legendary performers, local artists and rising stars. The 43rd festival will include more ...
- The first notes ever heard at the festival were played by Ray Charles at the Expo Theatre on Île Sainte-Hélène. Tickets to this 1980 concert cost a whopping $7.
- In 2004, the festival got the Guinness World Record for the largest jazz festival after attracting almost two million visitors over the course of the festival's run.
- Incredibly, about two-thirds of the events at the festival are free and open to the public every year.
- The festival touts that 60,000 litres of beer and 2,500 kilograms of fries are consumed on a yearly basis.
Jul 1, 2022 · Montreal's Jazz Festival often sees crowds of over 100,000 gathered peacefully downtown. Organizers are hoping the 2022 edition will be the biggest one yet, but are keeping a close eye on rising ...
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Website. montrealjazzfest.com. The Festival international de Jazz de Montréal is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. [1] Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including ...
