I hope someone will explain to me one day why Montrealers, and Gesu audiences in particular, seem to love the sound of drums quite so much. The audience for the Brubeck Brothers Quartet had listened to most of last night’s [...]
This was billed as “Lorraine Desmarais et invités; Lorraine Desmarais célèbre 40 ans de carrière” (Lorraine Desmarais and guests. Lorraine Desmarais celebrates 40 years of her career). The pianist/ composer/bandleader and educator is a wonderfully collaborative and communicative player. She [...]
This is a tale of me wanting to experience the kind of total contrast here that FIJM can offer: two totally different musical experiences on offer on the same evening, and within just a couple of hundred feet of each [...]
