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 — ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page. Montreal artists Charlotte Cardin and Matt Holubowski headline the opening and closing free outdoor ...

MONTREAL JAZZ: It’s early Monday morning (the crack of 10:30 a.m.) in presently jazz-consumed Montreal, and four kindly jazz world powerhouses are gathered around a table. In this modest meeting sits ...

If you had told 18 year-old me that I would have had a blast at Montreal Jazz Fest, I would have given you a bewildered stare. While I have always been aware of jazz, it has taken me until ...

The music festival landscape is incredibly saturated. Period. As summer festival lineups drop, it’s increasingly become this monotonous drivel of the same acts recycled into a slightly different ...

When Geoff Molson bought L’Équipe Spectra in December 2013, he gave Alain Simard and André Ménard matching Habs hockey sweaters. It’s a fitting image as, 5 1/2 years later, the Montreal International ...

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 ...

After a hiatus in 2010, in order to take a three-week Norwegian road trip, it's great to get back to the festival that the Guinness Book of Records calls "The biggest jazz festival in the world." But ...

The Montreal International Jazz Festival has canceled a controversial stage show, 'SLAV,' that features African-American slave songs performed by a largely white cast dressed as cotton pickers and ...

The city of Montréal in the Canadian province of Quebec is known for a number of things: Great bagels, a thriving art scene, a certain je ne sais quoi. It's also home to the largest jazz festival in ...