montreal jazz festival looks to the future

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http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/09/the-montreal-international-jazz-festival-looks-to-the-future/

"I learn about new music sometimes from my teenage daughters. How do you do it?

We do lots of reading and lots of listening, and now that musicians can send you their EPK [electronic press kit] right away it’s easier than ever. But we still go to the physical conventions and meet with people that create and sell music. And we go to festivals. I go to the London Jazz Festival every year, which may be the most interesting jazz festival in the world right now. I went last year to the jazz festival in Saint-Emilion, and drank some really good wine. I go to the Antibes one too. And we visit the big ones like Coachella and Lollapalooza.

Who chooses the acts?

I primarily do, but there are a whole bunch of programmers that come up with suggestions. It’s relatively easy nowadays to choose the acts digitally but when it comes down to real bodies being transported to your city to play music there it always comes back to analog–matters of availability and all that. You can dream up a show only to discover in January that none of that will work. It’s an exercise in disappointment."