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My summer of shows started last night although weather wise it felt more like late autumn. Anyway saw the Glen Hall/William Hooker/Dominic Duval trio last night. Very enjoyable evening with great musicians, they all did a very fine job, pretty tough to say that one standed out more than another. They played an eclectic set, played an Ornette Coleman and Annette Peacock composition, some blues, and a few Hall compositions. Music ranged from a Hat Huttish avant-garde improvisation style to a more robust traditionnal free jazz. A Toronto based now livin' in Montreal trumpet player, can't remember his name, joined in the second set, horrendous haircut but musically he fitted in fine Turnout was really poor, although it was expected programming a late jazz gig a sunday night ain't gonna attract plenty of people, we were about 15 to attend the gig. Other thing that turned out to be as fascinating as the music itself was the fact that the musicians mingled and chitchatted with the crowd prior and between the sets. Just listening to these people you could get a glimpse of their personnalities, you could easily figure out why Hall is the leader of the group he's the most assertive of the bunch, while at the other end of the spectrum Hooker is the kind of soft spoken fellow that rather let his sticks do the talking At the end of the evening, it felt like a get-together of people who visited a few friends who offered us entertainment, drinks and all, couln't help myself as they were packing to salute them like they were old chums.

Johnny Richards Mosaic select. Bought it from a board member, don't remember who. Knew and still know nothing about Richards, i've heard the two first pieces from the cd set, and except for a passage in the second piece where you got some groovin going on this has little or nothing to do with jazz, it sounds a lot more like a classical music ensemble. Nice sound texture, beautiful and warm with great coloring though, i enjoy it but i'm just did not expected that kind of stuff, think i'll go read the booklet to figure out what this is all about.

Beavis Butt-head David Van Driessen

Finally here's my concert (sometimes jazz) schedule for june and july, June 1st Glen Hall/William Hooker/Dominic Duval June the 4th Roswell Rudd & Mark Dresser June the 5th Hard Cell (Tim Berne/Craig Taborn/Tom Rainey) June the 7th Carla Bozulich's Evangelista + Oneida June the 8th Nels Cline Singers + Scarnella June the 11th Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band + The Witchies June the 13th Vic Chesnutt w/ Silver Mt. Zion & Guy Picciotto + The Ideal Lovers June the 14th Sun Ra Arkestra June the 15th Barnyard Drama (Christine Duncan + Jean Martin + Justin Haynes + Bernard Falaise) + All Up In There (Gordon Allen + Frank Martel + Michel F. Coté) + Lauzier / Martel / Myhr / Tétreault June the 16th Pierre-Yves Martel - Quartetski Does Satie Philippe Lauzier : alto sax and bass clarinet Gordon Allen : trumpet Pierre-Yves Martel : doublebass and arrangements Isaiah Ceccarelli : drums Lina Allemano (Ontario) Four Lina Allemano : trumpet Brodie West : alto sax Andrew Downing :doublebass Nick Fraser : drums June the 17th Matana Roberts' Mississippi Moonchile feat. Jeremiah (voice) + Gordon Allen (trumpet) + Shoko Nagai (piano) + Hill Greene (bass) + Tomas Fujiwara (drums) June the 18th Chet Doxas Le mur Based on 5 short stories by Jean-Paul Sartre Chet Doxas : composition, tenor sax and clarinet Stéphane Allard : 1st violin Zöé Dumais : 2nd violin Jean René : alto Sheila Hannigan : cello Zack Lober : doublebass Jim Doxas : drums John Sadowy : conductor DAME / Ambiances Magnétiques improvises Jean Derome : conductor, saxophones and flûtes Joane Hétu : saxophone and voice Charity Chan : piano Diane Labrosse : sampler Lori Freedman : bass clarinet Guido Del Fabbro : violin Rainer Wiens : guitar Pierre Tanguay : drums June the 19th Tren Brothers (Mick Turner et Jim White of The Dirty Three) + Spar and Automatic ( Mary Margaret O’hara et Aidan Closs) + Bernier/Trottier June the 20th Normand Guilbeault - Projet Riel Fortner Anderson : narrator Paul Chaput : narrator Normand Guilbeault : doublebass, voice Lou Babin : accordion, voice Jean René : alto, voice Marie-Soleil Bélanger: vioin, voice Jean Derome : alto and baritone sax, flûte, voice Ivanhoe Jolicoeur : trumpet, flugel horn. Mathieu Bélanger : clarinet et bass clarinet Jean Sabourin : tuba,bass trumpet Sylvain Provost : guitar Claude Lavergne : drums Pierre Tanguay : drums and voice Bernard Grenon : sound engineer Raphaëlle Lambert :video projections June the 21st Septuor Marianne Trudel Marianne Trudel : piano andcompositions Anne Shaefer : voice (Vancouver) Lina Allemano : trumpet (Toronto) Jean-Olivier Begin : trombone (New-York) Jocelyn Veilleux : french horn Normand Guilbeault : doublebass Jim Doxas : drums June the 22nd Roscoe Mitchell solo June the 25th Free Fall (Vandermark/Wiik/Haker Flaten) + Paal Nilssen-Love/Magnus Broo duo + Ken Vandermark June the 26th MICHEL PORTAL and JACKY TERRASSON Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton June the 27th CHRISTINE JENSEN INGRID JENSEN NORDIC CONNECT Powerhouse Sound (Ken Vandermark/Nate McBride/Jeff Parker/John Herndon) June the 28th STACEY KENT DON ROSS GONZALO RUBALCABA QUINTET Opening act: DOMINICK FARINACCI QUINTET June the 29th FRANÇOIS RICHARD NOUVEL ORCHESTRA SATOKO FUJII and NATSUKI TAMURA DUO June the 30th DIANNE REEVES CORKESTRA July the 1st TV ON THE RADIO July the 2nd ORCHESTRA BAOBAB YVES DORMOY - RODOLPHE BURGER PLANÉTARIUM RENAUD-GARCIA FONS TRIO July the 3rd STEVEN BERNSTEIN'S MILLENNIAL TERRITORY ORCHESTRA MEETS LAUREL & HARDY McCOY TYNER BIG BAND WITH THE BERKLEE CONCERT JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND SPECIAL GUEST CHRISTIAN SCOTT July the 4th JOSEPH ARTHUR SOLO KEB' MO' SOLO - TAJ MAHAL July the 5th BETTYE LAVETTE JEAN VANASSE - MIROSLAV VITOUS

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Should have been interesting, Brows does seem to change his personnel, last year he came up with this lineup Craig Taborn, Gerald Cleaver, William Parker

June is finally here so it means jazz festival season starts today, things start with a bang with Glen Hall/William Hooker/Dominic Duval Don't expect Stanley Crouch to drop by

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