DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Marc Copeland Trio

Marc Copland is a recognized musical treasure. In the last decade he was a mainstay in the bands of the late guitarist John Abercrombie, and legendary bassist Gary Peacock. His career has included stints with James Moody and Herbie Mann, as well as his own bands---bands including musicians like Abercrombie, Peacock, Ralph Alessi, Joey Baron, Randy Brecker, Bob Berg, Dennis Chambers, Drew Gress, Billy Hart, and Bill Stewart. Marc first came to Montreal in 2006, where he met local bass player Adrian Vedady. From this meeting a musical and personal friendship grew, and more gigs in Canada ensued over the years.

The happy result for Montreal audiences this July 2nd and 3rd at Dièse Onze is that they won't just be hearing an extraordinary pianist; they will hear a real ensemble that knows how to make music together.

“A lot of musicians come to Montreal from New York to play and pick up local musicians to fill out the band. That's not what this is. Playing trio is a special thing--all three players must be able to get into the intimacy of it and be willing to listen. Adrian, Jim and I have been working at developing the music. We aren't on the bandstand just to make the gig--this is a different thing; we are into making this trio work musically.”

Marc Copeland au Piano

Adrien Vedady à la Contrebasse

Jim Doxas à la Batterie

Spectacle à 19H

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DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Benoît Charest Quartet joue la musique de Wayne Shorter

Benoît Charest - Guitare

Jonathan Cayer - Piano

Rémi-Jean Leblanc – Contrebasse

Al Bourgeois - Batterie

Spectacle à 21h30

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Benoit Charest was born in Montreal in 1964 to an English mother and a French Canadian father. At the age of 13, Benoit developped a passion for the guitar and for learning music such as the Beatkes and Led Zeppelin by ear. Inevitably, he discovered jazz and as the age of 17, he decided to take private classes with Neil Solar, qualified at Boston’s Berkley School of Music. Solar taught him yhe basic of harmony, which helped him enormously matser the playing of an instrument and understand the music in general.

During his university studies Benoit made money playing with the best jazzmen of Montreal. In 1991, Benoit signed his first contract writing music for the film «  Montreal retro » for which he composed, arranged and directed the music. Since then, he has composed about 15 movie soudtracks, notably for the Cesar of the best music written and others price winning « Les Tiplettes de Bellevvlle ».

Benoit has also composed music for television, theatre and about sixty advertissements. He wrote the soundtrack for Cordell Barker’s comedy « Runaway » as well as the soundtrack for the controversial film « Polytechnique » written and directed by Quebecker Denis Villeneuve.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Marianne Trudel Trio

Marianne Trudel au Piano

Morgan Moore à la Contrebasse

Robbie Kuster à la Batterie

Spectacle à 19H

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Marianne Trudel is a multi-talented pianist, composer, improviser, and arranger. At once energetic and passionate, her music crosscuts a wide swath of musical interests. As a performer, she pursues an active career in a variety of settings ranging from solo performance to duo, Trifolia, Marianne Trudel 4 + Ingrid Jensen, septet, and large ensembles. She has presented her music in various countries: Canada, United States of America, Mexico, France, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, England, Scotland, Italy, Hungary, Lituania, and China. She has released 6 recordings as a leader, all having garnered rave reviews.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Alex Bellegarde Latin Quartet

Alex Bellegarde - Contrebasse

Michel Cantero - Piano

Nestor Rodrigez - Saxophone

Diomer Gonzales - Percussions

Spectacle à 21H30

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Energetic player, composer, and Grand Jazz Award winner at the Montreal Jazz Festival, 26th ed, Alex Bellegarde creates music drawn from a wealth of sources. He heads a number of formations and participates in a range of projects: jazz, Latin music and multidisciplinary. With several albums to his credit: Floating, Caminando, Quintet et Quartet "Live", One Fine Saturday he is also a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists' recordings.

Joe Sullivan Big Band

Joe Sullivan à la direction et Trompette

Spectacle à 19H00

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Since it’s début performance in 1998, the Joe Sullivan Big Band has become a major presence on the Canadian jazz scene. The group’s growing list of accomplishments includes numerous concert appearances, radio broadcasts and four critically acclaimed CD recordings. The group has received numerous grants from the Canadian and Québec arts councils and was twice nominated for a Prix Opus. The band performs from a large and varied repertoire of contemporary jazz compositions, principally by Sullivan and Jean Fréchette.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Alex Bellegarde Trio invite Al McLean suivi d’un Jam Session

Alex Bellegarde - Contrebasse

Eric St-Jean - Piano

Al McLean - Saxophone

Martin Auguste - Batterie

Spectacle à 21H30

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Energetic player, composer, and Grand Jazz Award winner at the Montreal Jazz Festival, 26th ed, Alex Bellegarde creates music drawn from a wealth of sources. He heads a number of formations and participates in a range of projects: jazz, Latin music and multidisciplinary. With several albums to his credit: Floating, Caminando, Quintet et Quartet "Live", One Fine Saturday he is also a guest contributor to a wide array of other artists' recordings.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Taurey Butler Trio

Taurey Butler au Piano

Morgan Moore à la Contrebasse

Wally Mohammad à la Batterie

Spectacle à 19h

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Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Taurey Butler began studying piano at the age of 7. However, he didn’t find is his passion for jazz until his senior year in high school when his band director handed him a solo piano recording of Oscar Peterson. Once he listened to the recording he knew jazz would be in his life forever. After graduating Dartmouth College with a B.A., B.E. in Electrical Engineering he decided to pursue his music career and began working at the legendary Cotton Club in New York City. Since then Taurey has performed all over the world in different venues and festivals. Some of which include The Blue Note NYC, the Detroit Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, the JVC Jazz Festival.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Kevin Dean Quintet

Kevin Dean – Trompette

Caoilainn Power – Saxophone

Steve Amirault - Piano

Ira Coleman - Contrebasse

Andre White - Batterie

Spectacle à 21H30

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Trumpeter Kevin Dean was raised in the United States and came to Canada to teach at St. Francis Xavier University in 1980, where he helped design the first jazz curriculum. He began teaching at McGill University in 1984 and designed the first full jazz curriculum there. Kevin is also an active composer with over 120 original compositions recorded on LP’s, CD’s and radio and television broadcasts. He has been recorded on over 30 albums and has released 13 as leader or co-leader. Kevin maintains his position of professor at McGill teaching trumpet, jazz composition, improvisation and jazz performance practice. Kevin has performed in concert and recorded with numerous well-known jazz artists including Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson, Joe Henderson and Barry Harris.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Ron DiLauro Sextet Homage à Miles Davis Kind of Blue

Ron DiLauro – Trompette

André Leroux – Sax Ténor

Jean-Pierre Zanella – Sax Alto

Michel Donato – Contrebasse

André White – Batterie

Goeff Lapp - Piano

Spectacle à 19H

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Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue iconic album has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz record, Davis's masterpiece, and one of the best albums of all time. Now the tracks from Kind of Blue will be recreated live by some of this country’s top jazz musicians. Bandleader Ron Di Lauro will lead his sextet with a set of Miles' classics from the late fifties for a full re-creation of Kind of Blue

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Olivier Babaz Invite Michel Cusson

Olivier Babaz - Contrebasse

Michel Cusson - Guitare

Al Bourgeois - Batterie

Spectacle à 21H30

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Michel Cusson & Olivier Babaz, along with Alain Bourgeois bring compositions and standards, at the crossroad of jazz & Blues Rock. With a power trio format and its unique textures, the trio has been active in Quebec for a few years and arrives in Diese Onze on July 9.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

MONTREAL JAZZ TRIO

Steve Amirault – Piano

Adrian Vedady – Contrebasse

Jim Doxas - Batterie

Spectacle à 19H

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Montreal Jazz Trio (MJT) is a new group featuring Steve Amirault p. Jim Doxas d. and Adrian Vedady b. Three musicians that have been playing together for the better part of 20 years. Modern jazz trio at its best!

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Yannick Rieu présente Machinations 2

Yannick Rieu - Saxophone

Rémi-Jean Leblanc- Basse

Morgan Moore - Basse

Louis-Vincent Hamel - Batterie

Spectacle à 21H30

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« MachiNations 2 » se veut un résumé des diverses influences qui ont jalonné le parcours de Yannick Rieu. Explorant les différents « grooves » issus du R&B, de la musique funk, du jazz-rock, du drum and bass et des musiques ethniques. Rieu souhaite néanmoins sortir des sentiers battus par une exploration plus diversifiée des harmonies reliées traditionnellement à ces divers genres musicaux. 

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Essence des Bois, Yves Léveillé Sextet

Yves Léveillé – Piano, compositions et arrangements

François Richard - Flute

Roberto Murray - Saxophone(s)

Bernard Daigle - Clarinette / clarinette alto / flute

Olivier Babaz - Contrebasse

Alain Bastien: - Batterie

Spectacle à 19H 

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Yves Léveillé released in February 2014 his album Essences des bois devoted to instruments of the woodwind family wandering between jazz and today's classical music, an album nominated at the ADISQ (best jazz creation album 2014). Essences des bois won the Prix Opus 2013-2014 in the category Concert of the Year | Jazz - World Music. After his tours with Paul McCandless (great American multi-instrumentalist and outstanding jazz improviser), he wanted to demonstrate that woodwinds, which are normally muffled, can give an assertive, tonic energy. With this septet for flutes, oboe, English horn, clarinets, saxophones, piano, double bass and drums, the musician thus goes off the beaten track, bypassing the usual use of brass instruments that often predominate in jazz.

DANS LE CADRE DU FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL

Normand Guilbeault Ensemble joue Charles Mingus

Normand Guilbeault - Contrebasse

Ivanhoe Jolicoeur – Trompette

Jean Derome – Saxophone

Matthieu Bélanger – Clarinette

Alex Grogg - Piano

Claude Lavergne - Batterie

Spectacle à 21h30

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Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Mingus, c’est un des piliers de la musique jazz américaine. Le contrebassiste s’est montré un compositeur prolifique en écrivant des centaines, voire des milliers de morceaux des années 50 aux années 70, et il était réputé pour ses improvisations et mille variations en concert. Son approche de la musique lui a valu d’être perçu comme un des pionniers du free jazz.

Inutile de dire que les musiciens qui tentent de recréer une expérience à la Mingus doivent être fort talentueux et très concentrés afin de bien se synchroniser et de retomber pile sur les temps entre les parties plus improvisées. C’est ce que réussit parfaitement l’ensemble de Normand Guilbeault, contrebassiste québécois des plus reconnus, qui a réuni ici des musiciens jazz de renom tels que le très respecté Jean Derome au saxophone alto et baryton ainsi qu’à la flûte traversière, Mathieu Bélanger à la clarinette et à la clarinette basse, Ivanhoe Jolicoeur à la trompette et Claude Lavergne à la batterie.

L’ensemble existe depuis une vingtaine d’années et cette connaissance des autres, musicalement, est un atout indéniable pour faire vivre la musique de Mingus