A few suggestions for shows to discover as part of the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Event: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Here, capital letters would be required for each letter of the word “event”. We still pinch ourselves, to be honest, to finally have the opportunity to hear Alison Krauss and Robert Plant sing together in the flesh. Expectations are high as their two discs, Raising Sand And Raise the Roof, testify to a perfect musical harmony. Expectations are high, therefore, but we do not even cross our fingers: it can only be high quality.
Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier at Place des Arts, at 7:30 p.m.
The discovery: FELP
PHOTO LOUIS ROBITAILLE, PROVIDED BY BONSOUND
Klo Pelgag and Felix Petit
In 2019, Félix Petit won with Vincent Roberge the Félix for arrangements of the year for The night is a panther des Louanges, one of the most significant pop records of the last decade. HELP, the first album of his solo project FELP, has nothing pop about it, and everything from the work of an insatiable researcher, who draws on IDM, acid jazz and hip-hop at the same time. , with in addition a sax not disdaining some free momentum. His friends Klô Pelgag, Laurence-Anne, Hubert Lenoir and Greg Beaudin have already confirmed their presence at the party.
Club Montreal TD, at 11 p.m.
Really Jazz: JD McPherson
PHOTO FROM THE ARTIST’S WEBSITE
JD McPherson
Hallelujah! He is back. Not really jazz, you will rightly say. The 46-year-old singer and supersonic guitarist from Oklahoma is a propagator of rockabilly, old rock’n’roll and all that music from the back roads of America, the Red States of the Midwest. Drawing unrestrainedly from his distant roots, his music has nothing of an exercise in anachronistic style, everything is in the incendiary execution of the songs rendered with a quickdraw of hell. just listeningr North Side Gal Or Let The Good Times Roll and here you are dancing. Vintage to the bone. Fire !
7:30 p.m., Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, PdA