062414 Bill Frisell, Ottawa, ON
June 24th, 2014 was a jazzfest evening that was astoundingly memorable for me, one that contained a somewhat crushing low, an incredible highlight, and a self-defeating decision that remains submerged in regret…
Tag: Ottawa Jazz Festival
062307 Dave Brubeck, Ottawa, ON
Dave Brubeck was almost ninety years old so I wasn’t expecting much more than an appearance really, but even at that stage of the game the now-late pianist was still right on time, as it were. It was a beautiful night out and the amazing weather was perfectly augmented by the high-quality on-kilter compound jazz…
062115 Chris Botti/Timber Timbre, Ottawa, ON
A viola player dies and finds himself banished to Hell. He takes his seat in the string section of a large orchestra and starts playing along…
062008 Wynton Marsalis, Ottawa, ON
I gotta tell you, someone has got to have a lot of concerts under their belt to have seen a jazz heavyweight like Wynton Marsalis perform in a beautiful setting like Confederation Park on a pleasant summer’s eve and remember not a single thing about it…
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