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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.

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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.

Today isn't so bad , but we had an heatwave the last few days , over 93 degres and about 104 with the humidity factor which is quite high here for this time of the year

Not really but this story becomes more pathetic by the minute

Always fun to listen to them, agreed with the majority the Satie is the one that stands out the most

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KIng Ubu is there a way to search for upcoming boxsets or have you checked every link for every artist on the roster ?

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We had a thread mentionning this fine offering Worth mentionning also is her work with the Charles Lloyd quartet.

Amazon France finally delivered the Threadgill, listening to the first CD.

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In french we have a word for it, it's called réalisme. IF Inter stance against Barça was a bit on the outrageous side , can't say the same for this game, in terms of scoring chances both teams had the number of scoring chances. Was it entertaining, not exactly but it was a watchable game that put in light a team that works effectively as a collective.

Wow...they're both still alive? In Vasquez case, barely...

Damn, you beat me to it