The marriage of music and dance requires a careful collaboration, one that allows for both genres to complement each other. Les Ballets Jazz Montréal’s “Dance Me” fuses the emotionally potent songs of ...

For our latest Sense of Place series, we sat down with historian Dorothy Williams, who grew up in the heart of Montreal's ...

World Cafe is kicking off its latest Sense of Place series with a playlist that offers a glimpse of Montreal's lively music ...

As the biggest and one of the oldest jazz festivals in the world, it’s no surprise that Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is supremely well organised, has excellent indoor and outdoor venues ...

With the Montreal International Jazz Festival turning 45 this year, programming director Maurin Auxéméry likes to joke that the city’s emblematic summer event is having its mid-life crisis. The city’s ...

MONTREAL -- Decidedly more hip than hip-hop, the International Festival de Jazz de Montreal -- the Montreal Jazz Festival to anyone this side of Sidney Bechet -- is gearing up for its 25th anniversary ...

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— better ...

The free outdoor program of the 30th edition of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 30 years at the heart of jazz Montreal, Monday, June 8, 2009 - For its 30th birthday, the Festival ...

Those who were once the Young Lions of jazz are now the old cats—hep cats, perhaps, but old just the same. Wynton Marsalis, the public face of the Young Lions movement in the 1980s and 1990s, is now ...

I should’ve known that something was in the air when the first songs I heard at the biggest jazz music festival in the world were by Outkast, Arrested Development, Common, and A Tribe Called Quest. As ...

The Montreal Jazz Festival is billed as the world's largest, with more than 200,000 people watching 2,000 performers during 10 days. But National Post columnist Graeme Hamilton notes that while flower ...