On the Monday night (July 4) of Montréal Jazz Fest, Taylor McFerrin worked a Sequential Prophet-6 synth and a sampler as he treated the crow...

Pantha Du Prince's minimal techno style, so clean and precise on record, was lent human gusto at their Montreal Jazz Festival performance at...

Naomi Shelton and her Gospel Queens were the first half of a double dip of Daptone Records artists at Metropolis, opening for the ferociousl...

The Jedi and Padawan? More like Revenge of the Sith, when Anakin and Obi-Wan are pretty evenly matched, although no limbs were chopped off a...

Brazilian guitarist and vocalist Joyce Moreno is approaching 50 years in show business — long enough to be intimately connected to the...

What is the jazz equivalent to "poptimism"? Jazz festivals have answered this question poorly: it's pretty easy to spot who the designated c...

It doesn't get any better than this. Most artists would be cowed by the grandeur of Montreal's largest concert hall, yet the sheer size and...

Soprano saxophonist Jane Bunnett has played just about every conceivable jazz-friendly surface in the world, from tiny clubs to soft seat th...

The last time I caught up with Robert Glasper at the Montreal Jazz Festival was five years ago. So much has changed for him since then. Most...

It's hard to overstate the influence of Sly and Robbie not only on reggae music in the studio but onstage. Pretty much every single reggae b...

Omara "Bombino" Moctar has travelled far from his home in northern Niger over the past five years; this isn't even his first swing through t...