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Established in 1982, the Concours de Jazz is an annual competition held at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. The competition takes place between Canadian groups performing original music, and is part of the festival's outdoor program. Throughout its history the prize has been awarded to many of Canada's most prominent jazz musicians.
The 1970 edition of the festival featured performances of 11 artists: [4] Bill Evans. Carlos Santana. Champion Jack Dupree. Clark Terry. Eddie Gómez. George Gruntz. Gerry Mulligan. Herbie Mann.
Allmusic. [1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. [2] Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival is a live album by American jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal featuring performances recorded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1985 and released on the Atlantic label. [3]
The 58th edition of the historic Swiss festival takes place this year between 5-20 July, with a typically eclectic lineup that incorporates pop, jazz, funk, hip-hop, rock and afrobeats.
The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes over 2 million visitors (12.5% of whom are tourists) as well as 300 accredited journalists.
Occupation (s) Musician, composer, arranger, educator. Instrument (s) Piano. Years active. 1940–present. Oliver Theophilus Jones, OC CQ (born September 11, 1934 in Little Burgundy, Montreal, Quebec) [1] is a Canadian jazz pianist, organist, composer and arranger. In 2023, he was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. [2]
Just for Laughs was formed in 1983 as a two-day French-language event. In 1985, Andy Nulman joined the festival's staff and introduced English-language events as well; under Nulman's stewardship, the festival increased to a full month, with French-speaking performers during the first half, and English speakers in the second half.
The Montreux Jazz Festival opened was founded in 1967 [3] by Claude Nobs, Géo Voumard and René Langel [4] with considerable help from Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun of Atlantic Records. The festival was first held at Montreux Casino. The driving force is the tourism office under the direction of Raymond Jaussi. It lasted for three days and featured ...