Van Basten II

Here's hoping, they'll use those only when South Africa will be playing and here's hoping that they will be quickly out of the tournament. A Céline Dion Cd sounds good. Regarding the game, when I could concentrate on it, neither team really imperssed me that much , lapses in defense, as a Bleu fan am confident that we have a strong chance to beat any of those teams if our team plays to the best of its potential of course. Best player to me was the Mexican midfielder Dos Santos

Think I will watch with the sound off , those horns are annoying

Guess what I'll be watching in two hours and for the next month

They are maybe peakin' at the wrong in time. Here's a tidbit to tell you how hard it is to win a World Cup for the first time if you're not the host, it happened only twice in 54 and 58. Then again maybe they're overdue.

No European team has ever won a World Cup held outside Europe, so you gotta think that Argentine and Brazil should be the front runners, will Argentine be able to gel collectively in time, with a crazy maniac as a coach it won't be easy. But quite often teams who have success in the big dance have struggled to qualify or had poor level of play prior to the main competition (Remember 1998). So, don't count them out yet on their poor showings. Regarding Brazil , Dunga seems to have opted for constancy over flair and big names, , by the way Ronaldhino played in Montreal last week and gave quite a show, I do feel that the football gods will reward his no nonsense approach. If an european wins it, hope it's Spain who will break their bad WC spell, but it's unlikely. Regarding Les Bleus, last time around, we played well despite the coach and rally around the veterans, am afraid this year it will only be a learning experience for the younger players and a quick exit, at best i don't see them getting further than the Second round. For my part my summer holiday is coinciding with the competition , so except for a few days, I'll be able to watch the games live, I"ll try to DVR the games when I'll be working but I'm afraid I will know the results before getting home.

Let's resume our trip through the programmation day by day. july the 1st is a national holiday here and generally a strong day regarding the programming and this year delivers Basically they are two main intineraries you can try and both will be worth it At 6 pm Robert Glasper will be among us for a few evenings and he starts his short residency playing with his trio. At 8h30 Terrance Blanchard and his quintet will take the place in the Théâtre Jean Duceppe and you can finish your evening with the formation Punk Bop that involves the talented group of Ari Hoenig , Tigran Hamasyan , Matt Penman, Gilad Hekselman. The other way to go to have yourself a Masada Marathon, the first early part will showcase Zorn presents the groups Bar Kokhba, the Jamie Saft Trio, the Ben Goldberg Quartet, Mycale, Erik Friedlander performing solo, and the Masada Sextet and the late show will present performances by Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier, Dreamers, Uri Caine performing solo, the Masada String Trio and Electric Masada. Going to Masada although a part of me wanted to see Glasper and Punk Bop but heck you gotta choose.

Apparently in english it's called a geoduck and the real french name is panope

Was 4728 now it's roll of the drums.....

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=KrtyIqSzoYI Don't know how it's called in english, but Palourde Royale will stick in any language.

Reminds me of this song Oh lord it's hard to be humble When you're perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror Cause i get better loking each day. To know me is to love me

Here's the answer in case you missed it. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/02/shadow-lurks-miami-living-courteney-cox/

Good memories by reminding me of the late Sam the Record Man, a real music store, they don't make them like that nowadays

All i had was tape cassettes so as soon as I had the dough I started buying them it was around the early 90s when I actually had a job that paid enough to buy them.

June the 30th, for the last day of june we have a bit of everything, you like pianists well how about veteran local player François Bourassa playing solo in the Chapelle du Bon Pasteur, too churchlike for your tastes, well if you're more old school the bar Upstairs will feature Geoff Keezer who will accompany Joel Miller and his trio. Like reconstituted standards, Porgy and Bess will be replayed by Ron Di Lauro and directed by Joe Muccioli. Gypsy music afficionados won't want to miss the all star bash that will be Gypsie Planet with Christian Escoudé, Marcel Azzola, Florin Niculescu, David Reinhardt, Darryl Hall and Jean-Baptiste Laya. Modern music will have two of its finest representatives with the Christine Jensen big band which in my book delivered the best jazz CD of 2010 and later in the evening Dave Douglas with his formation Keystone will be another great demonstration of where jazz is in 2010. Take notice that Manu Katché will end his series by bringing with him excellent guitarist Sylvain Luc and bass master Richard Bona Finally if you are tired of be bop and wanna listen to hip hop, you can't go wrong by picking The Roots. I will be attending the Jensen concert for the 3rd time in one year and will gladly see Dave Douglas to end the evening

June the 29th will be the day of the big outside show, at this moment of writing it was not announced yet. It is usually an almost off day regarding inside gigs. However those who want to avoid the huge crowds that the big event usually attracts have still a few options this year. L'Astral will offer an homage to the late Len Dobbin which will feature the artist that was about to play when Len passed away at the Upstairs club last year, the pianist Felix Stussi will play with his formation plus fine Montreal trombonist Jean-Nicolas Trottier. Also the Flamenco series will keeep on be in action and will produce a show with Diego El cigala. I will be attending both shows

Wade Boggs The San Diego Chicken Morganna

June the 28th after the previous busy day is more quiet, after Fresu it's now Manu Katché who will be the guest of the invitation series he will start with his own quartet, the jazz festival likes to bring a touch of exotism well they don't get any more exotic than Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu a blind indigenous australian singing in Yolngu dialect. On the straighter side of things , the main people that will be worth checking out that day will be very talented sax player Chet Doxas who will play with Ben Charest ( Belleville rendez-vous), Roy Hargrove will showcase his big band project and finally the late night series brings Wallace Roney with his quintet starring Antoine Roney (saxophones), Rashaan Carter (double bass), Aruan Ortiz (keyboards) and Kush Abadey (drums). Finally a blues doubleheader will take place at the Metropolis showcasing vetran Taj Mahal and The Fabulous Thunderbirds. For yours truly it will be Yunupingu and Roney.

Think of him as the tree that hides the forest

June the 27th is mostly a veteran's day as a few well known great old timers will be showcased. For starters The excellent local pianist Julie Lamontagne and her trio will have as a guest Houston Person, still on the local side le roi du drum 70something Guy Nadon will be at l'Astral. If you want legends well they don't get in this day and age bigger than Sonny Rollins and Herbie Hancock who will be present this day not on the same gig though. Among the sideman with Hancock will be the excellent guitarist Lionel Loueke. Even in the non-jazz side part veterans will be a main feature with Eric Burdon and the Animals leading a bill at the Metropolis also Ben Sidran will sing his unique own vision of Bob Dylan songs . On the younger side of things dynamic and popular Mike Stern will be back in Montreal, the flamenco gig of the day will be brought by pianist Chano Dominguez, the European flavour of the day will be brought by accordeonist Daniel Mille finally Paolo Fresu will end his invitational series with guests Manu Katché and Nils Peter Molvaer. For yours truly it will be Sidran and Hancock

Finished listening the Threadgill and all the other sets and all I can say is can't wait for the following editions to be out, Great music all around.

June the 26th is not as deep as the first day but there will be plenty of fun for willing ears, for starters, you can catch up some of the gigs you missed the previous night as Dorantes will come back and the Wilson-Ritchie sold enough to warrant a second set in two nights. Paolo Fresu will resume his invitation by bringing Ralph Towner, they'll probably play material from their latest collaboration, On the local side sax player Jean Derome will bring his unique style to the stage with his own band les Dangereux Zhoms. Meanwhile pianist Lorraine Desmarais will show her stuff all by herself in a solo concert. If you care more about bigger names, Victor Wooten will be there although it is unknown which project and with who he's going to offer us, another well known name David Sanchez will have a gig at the same time if you fancy the Sanchez concert the clincher might be that Omar Sosa will play a solo set prior to the main act. Finally if you enjoy the mix of electronics with jazz, two names to remember for this evening as Frenchman Ibrahim Maalouf will be playing at the Astral , a new place that was built in 2009 built in front of the lamented, departed and famed Spectrum and once again Jazz dans la nuit delivers another nice way of ending the evening with Nils Peter Molvaer . Yours truly will see the Fresu-Towner gig followed by Ibrahim Maalouf

The Official big festival is a good one and some days with enough depth that makes you wonder what you're going to see. Of course most of the ads and media will mostly talk and focus about mainstream act that have nothing to do with jazz, Lionel Ritchie or Boz Scaggs anyone ? So for the purpose of this thread, i will focus on music more related to jazz with some excursions in worth seeing act beyond the blue note. Also i want to inform you that the outside schedule has yet to be announced, so the only gigs mentionned will be those in inside venues. Ok let's start with june the 25th The opening show is a weird one with a doubleheader starring Cassandra Wilson and Lionel Ritchie , the invitation series this year has three guests the first one is Paolo Fresu who will have as a first guest mercurial pianist Omar Sosa. This year the festival is not only about big names , worth to discover Vijay Iyer will show his stuff with two different gigs he will play solo in the beautiful Chapelle du Bon Pasteur and end the night with the tasty series Jazz dans la nuit where he will be joined by the members of his trio. Also New Yorker by way of Cuba Yosvany Terry who visited us as a sideman with senor Rubalcaba a few years ago will be showing his stuff as a leader Still in jazz related gigs going on that day a group of capable men such as Vernon Reid, Graham Haynes, DJ Logic, Melvin Gibbs, James Hurt, JT Lewis, Adam Rudolph and Antoine Roney will revisit Bitches Brew. Also David Sanborn will be there , i would not mention it but bringing Joey Defrancesco with him makes it worthy of a few words. Finally if that is not enough for you in outside the jazz sphere music world poet, seems other descriptions are not apt, Gil Scott-Heron who offered us one of the best album of 2010 will be with us on this busy and exciting day. Finally if Flamenco is your thing there is a whole series devoted to this music , pianist Dorantes will kick it off. As you can see that's a heck of a first day, for my part logistics made me settle on Scott-Heron and the late Iyer set with his trio. Will post when I have the time for the following days.

A bit off topic but still related to the wonderful world of Mosaic and less wonderful world of tax/duty and fees, when I order from them, and they usually are big orders over 400 $, I never know if i'm going to pay extra fees at the delivery or not. Heck, for a while i didn't even know you had to pay fees for customs, the postal office would deliver the box and that would be the end of it when once I suddenly had a custom invoice attached to them . A friend of mine who's a retired postal office worker told he had to pay them for every order he made. For my part since my "lucky streak" it has been uneven sometimes i do sometimes I don't. Still a bit confused about howe they operate, I asked people at the post office and they are as clueless as I am about it.

Saw a gig called Saxes in the city, that took place in St-James church 5 of our finest sax players (André Leroux, Rémi Bolduc, Jean Fréchette, Jean-Pierre Zanella and Chet Doxas ) with a rhythm section played pieces popularized by Charlie Parker and Coltrane. Fine music, interesting arrangements, highlight of the night was a beautiful version of Ruby my dear only played by the 5 sax players à la World Saxophone Quartet.