Etiket: FIJM
Our selection of July 6 at the FIJM
Thursday July 6 RJ Leblanc TD Studio, 6 p.m. Composer and bassist Rémi-Jean LeBlanc launched a fourth album last December as a leader, Le Solid HEYDAY oozing jazz fusion from…
Maneige at the FIJM: For a few more laps
At Gesù on Friday, we can say that a big loop will be closed. A very big tour of Maneige, the image is essential. Almost fifty years after their first…
Macy Gray show canceled at FIJM
The Montreal International Jazz Festival (FIJM) had to revise its closing show, scheduled for Saturday evening, in extremis, following the cancellation of the performance originally scheduled to be given by…
Herbie Hancock and Jean-Michel Blais offer an evening to go down in the annals of the FIJM
The Montreal International Jazz Festival hit the mark yesterday with its programming choices. Quiet, on a Monday evening downtown? It depends: with Jean-Michel Blais on the Place des Festivals, the…
Meditations and swaying at the opening of the FIJM
The jazz gods have been kind to us. It had been raining for two days, and again yesterday for a good part of the day until 5 p.m., when the…
The Roots non-stop closing the FIJM
The 42nd edition of the Festival international de jazz de Montréal ended Saturday evening with a powerful explosion of funk and rap, courtesy of the American orchestra The Roots which,…
Our picks for July 9 at the FIJM
The Psychelic Furs/X MTelus, 8:30 p.m. While there are sometimes rock stars at the FIJM (Peter Frampton, Doobie Brothers, etc.), or even prog stars (King Crimson here, Tangerine Dream there),…
Passing through the FIJM, Cadence Weapon returns home
At 36, one of the stars of the day’s outdoor programming at the Festival international de jazz de Montréal (FIJM), author, composer and rapper Cadence Weapon, is on a roll.…
Robert Glasper at the FIJM: the science of rap at the service of jazz
A Théâtre Maisonneuve at full capacity for the return, last night, of composer and pianist Robert Glasper, who came to spread the good jazz, soul and hip-hop vibes that have…
[Critique] FIJM: Lee Fields and the beautiful loan parade
Monday at the FIJM: in an hour, it will be the turn of Lee Fields and his Expressions to occupy the main stage of the Place des festivals. Yet, in…
[Critique] FIJM: Lee Fields and the beautiful loan parade
Monday at the FIJM: in an hour, it will be the turn of Lee Fields and his Expressions to occupy the main stage of the Place des festivals. Yet, in…
In pictures | The FIJM in the eyes of our photographers
4 Gesu, June 30, 2022 | Put together at the last minute in view of the absence of singer Madison McFerrin, this quartet did not disappoint anyone. An impulsive and…
The FIJM fills up with festival-goers
It started again as if there had been no pandemic. The Quartier des Spectacles was packed Thursday night for the opening of the 42nd edition of the Montreal International Jazz…
Francos and FIJM | Laurent Saulnier will step down
The programming of the Francos and the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal will bear the mark of Laurent Saulnier for one last summer. After 23 years with Équipe Spectra,…