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CODE Quartet – CODE Red

Frédéric Cardin — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:35:32 +0000

There are dream teams, and then there are Dream Teams. CODE Quartet is of the second kind. I’d only use capital letters if I didn’t fear sounding like a certain orange president. The crème de la crème of the crème de la crème: Lex French on trumpet, Christine Jensen on saxes, Adrian Vedady on double […]

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Lex French – In the World’s First Summer

Frédéric Cardin — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:30:49 +0000

I can’t think of a single thing that could have gone wrong with a line-up that reads like a list of some of Montreal’s finest jazz musicians, also among the finest in America, no less: Lex French on trumpet (already, we’re in the upper echelons), then François Bourassa on piano (need I say more?), Morgan […]

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Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra – Harbour

Frédéric Cardin — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:52:04 +0000

With Harbour, Christine Jensen brings together her best friends and family members from Montreal and New York for a third album of compositions for her big band. After Treelines (2010) and Habitat (2013), Jensen continues her exploration of the possibilities of the jazz orchestra, which she is mastering better and better, and for which she […]

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Simon Denizart – Piece of Mind

Frédéric Cardin — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:47:48 +0000

Piece of Mind is pianist Simon Denizart’s fifth career album, and a highly personal one at that. It is clearly the culmination of a process that began a few years ago, with the Montrealer tending towards the integration of world and neo-classical influences, as well as a cinematic display of emotional character. Denizart’s modernity lies […]

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Doxas Brothers – Kindred

Frédéric Cardin — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:27:42 +0000

THE Montreal jazz family is the Doxas. George, the dad (producer and master of the studio), Chet (saxophone) and Jim (drums). I could have mentioned the Biddles, but they’ve been keeping a low profile for many years. On the contrary, Chet and Jim are always active, the former on the New York scene, where he’s […]

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Pilc Moutin Hoenig Trio – YOU are the Song

Frédéric Cardin — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:06:04 +0000

It’s been twelve years. Twelve years since the previous album by the trio Pilc Moutin Hoenig (Jean-Michel, François and Ari), the excellent Threedom, released in 2011. But it was well worth the wait. Just as good in terms of pure musicality and technical excellence, but perhaps more melodically focused than its predecessor, YOU Are The […]

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Chet Doxas – Rich in Symbols II

Frédéric Cardin — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:47:07 +0000

Rich in Symbols II is the Canadian jazz equivalent of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. While the first album was broad in scope, this synesthetic second opus (Doxas spontaneously associates images with music in his head) focuses on his native country. Featured here is the Group of Seven, the Canadian collective of early 20th-century painters […]

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Dance With Me

Steve Naud — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:36:31 +0000

Canadian jazz singer and pianist Carol Welsman’s excellent reputation is no accident. Album after album, the lady delivers quality product, tastefully executed by seasoned musicians. Each time, though, the element that stands out the most is her vocal performance. Warm timbre, affecting interpretation, accuracy… Her work is impeccable! It’s still the case on Dance with […]

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Woman Child

Ralph Boncy — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:20:07 +0000

Hands-down winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010, this young proponent of operatic singing left the Conservatory Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence to come back to the United States. Purists and the public alike welcomed her with open arms, and of the readers and critics of the renowned jazz magazine Downbeat immediately voted […]

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