After just one second listening to Chantal’s voice, I was hooked. The quality of so many jazz female vocalists is quite remarkable - Emily-Claire Barlow, Laura Anglade, Stacey Kent etc… Do you know if Chantal‘s still active on the local scene? As much as I enjoy listening at home, nothing beats live jazz…
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I remember there was a few before pandemic. Le quai des brumes, La maison du jazz.
It seems like la maison du jazz moved to Laval
Je n’en connais pas beaucoup et je crois qu’il n’en reste tout simplement pas beaucoup. Je ne mettrais pas le Quai des Brumes dans la catégorie jazz, il peut arriver, à l’occasion, qu’un band un peu jazz soit à l’affiche mais c’est plutôt l’exception.
Purement jazz il y a le Dièze/Onze un peu plus bas sur Saint-Denis et Upstairs dans le centre-ville
I noticed that women generally doesn’t like fusion probably because it’s too technical. Un peu dommage parce que ce type de musique a des envolées plutôt planantes…mais plus pour les gars j’imagine.
Effectivement j’ai souvent entendu, de la part de mes amies, que la musique du genre fusion et aussi le rock progressif, était trop cérébral et pas assez émotive. Il y a sûrement un lien à faire avec l’adage qui veut que les hommes soient moins connectés avec leurs émotions que les femmes. Je ne suis pas nécessairement d’accord avec ce genre d’affirmation mais ça reste encore très généralisé comme perception.
Glad you enjoy her as much as I do. She's great in concert. I know Chantal moved to Ottawa a few years ago and she was having some health problems, but I haven't heard anything recently about her. Still hoping she makes a return appearance to Montreal for jazz festival. (Wish the jazz club "NYC" from the DeNiro movie "The Score" really existed in Montreal).
Cap'tain and bodick 's comments about fusion music are interesting. Probably the most popular artist in jazz music today is Laufey, who won this year's Grammy for best jazz album. She's very popular amongst Gen-Z females who first noticed her on TikTok. She has stated that she wants to do to jazz music what Taylor Swift did for pop music. Oh my! Is this a good thing? She's appearing at this year's Festival and her evening concert sold out fast. A few tickets remain for the afternoon show. But beware - there will be alot of screaming young females(not your usual jazz crowd). But if her music can get these young fans to explore other jazz artists, maybe a good thing?
I love how this thread turned into a “music discovery” thread. Adding some names to my playlist
I will be there for the afternoon concert and hopefully those young screaming females are going to be too impressed by the Maison Symphonique and will temper their screaming !!!
Anyone with any updates on the Jazz Festival? I saw Al Di Meola Sat night at Maisonneuve. Scintillating set with Al's virtuoso fusion guitar playing collaborating with the latin beats of his supporting players from around the world. Wow - they were on fire! Also managed a short acoustic set with my favorite "Norwegian Wood". Fabulous.
Wednesday saw Norah Jones and her smooth velvety voice. (20 years ago she was the Laufey of her time.) She played some new songs and some of her favorite older songs. I especially loved her interpolation of Ellington's tinkling piano from "In a Sentimental Mood" into her "Come Away with Me." Just as Ellington interpolated Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" melody into "In a Sentimental Mood". I love how jazz music inspires one generation to the next, each building on what came before.
And for those of you not familiar with jazz, looking to discover some new sounds - Here is the above mentioned "In a Sentimental Mood" by Duke Ellington with John Coltrane. Love listening to this on a lazy Sunday afternoon or a hot summer night when I can't sleep and enjoying a glass of wine. Not just great jazz - great music. Timeless.
Wednesday saw Norah Jones and her smooth velvety voice. (20 years ago she was the Laufey of her time.) She played some new songs and some of her favorite older songs. I especially loved her interpolation of Ellington's tinkling piano from "In a Sentimental Mood" into her "Come Away with Me." Just as Ellington interpolated Gershwin's "Someone to Watch Over Me" melody into "In a Sentimental Mood". I love how jazz music inspires one generation to the next, each building on what came before.
And for those of you not familiar with jazz, looking to discover some new sounds - Here is the above mentioned "In a Sentimental Mood" by Duke Ellington with John Coltrane. Love listening to this on a lazy Sunday afternoon or a hot summer night when I can't sleep and enjoying a glass of wine. Not just great jazz - great music. Timeless.
I attended the second show which was on Wednesday. I actually went to see Martha Wainright & ended up enjoying Norah Jones as much & actually more. I regretted missing Robert Plant & Allison Krauss’ performance last season when i had the chance to go so this time i figured i wouldn’t have any regret about the Jazzfest when i’d leave Mtl this time around. I’m really glad i did. I really enjoyed attending this year’s jazzfest & for the most part the weather cooperated.
Hi all - since I started this thread, might as well give my feedback on some of the concerts I saw.. first coup de cœur for Gabi Hartman, even Andre Ménard himself came to stage to present her. She will be one to follow closely. Loved the Joy Lapps Project (much better on stage than on records) but did not really enjoy Buffalo Nichols. Yaya Bey was entertaining.
Saw Laufey on the Saturday afternoon concert and it was as advertised. But maybe even better was my first visit to La Maison Symphonique, what a beautiful hall, I was in awe. You can actually hear clearly her heels when she was walking on stage in between songs…what an amazing venue!
One of my favorite performer and song writer is Dominique Fils-Aimé. Although I prefer seeing her in more intimate settings, she was great on the big stage Saturday night
I would have loved to see Norah Jones but I could not be in town on those dates….hopefully I’ll get a chance soon… So when I came back to Montreal, I enjoyed Halie Loren and renewed with Angelique Francis. She and her sisters and dad are always a fun act to follow and play good blues… On the Friday, it was my birthday and I book my ATF SP and we both went to dinner, went to see Pink Martini (first time for me and it was amazing, how can a band of 12 musicians play so tight, it’s mind boggling), then we went for a cocktail on a rooftop terrace and then ….. well you know..
Other shows to mention, Yannick Rieu and Milena Casado but I must say those were not my favorites…
Can’t wait for next year!
Saw Laufey on the Saturday afternoon concert and it was as advertised. But maybe even better was my first visit to La Maison Symphonique, what a beautiful hall, I was in awe. You can actually hear clearly her heels when she was walking on stage in between songs…what an amazing venue!
One of my favorite performer and song writer is Dominique Fils-Aimé. Although I prefer seeing her in more intimate settings, she was great on the big stage Saturday night
I would have loved to see Norah Jones but I could not be in town on those dates….hopefully I’ll get a chance soon… So when I came back to Montreal, I enjoyed Halie Loren and renewed with Angelique Francis. She and her sisters and dad are always a fun act to follow and play good blues… On the Friday, it was my birthday and I book my ATF SP and we both went to dinner, went to see Pink Martini (first time for me and it was amazing, how can a band of 12 musicians play so tight, it’s mind boggling), then we went for a cocktail on a rooftop terrace and then ….. well you know..
Other shows to mention, Yannick Rieu and Milena Casado but I must say those were not my favorites…
Can’t wait for next year!
