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With the Ottawa Jazz Festival set to begin Wednesday, June 22, our music critics have a few suggestions:
Peter Hum’s picks
Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret
Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m.
NAC Back Stage
The Berkeley, California-based pianist, 59, is pigeonholed, and celebrated, as an avant-gardist. But for all its innovation, Melford’s music offer much in the way of groove, melody and freshness. Melford’s five-piece band includes some strikingly unique musicians — the fascinating drummer Tyshawn Sorey in particular — united in common cause.
Myra Melford with her group Snowy Egret play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m. at the NAC Back Stage.
SFJAZZ Collective
Friday, June 24 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
This time out, the all-star octet applies its virtuosic ways to the music of Michael Jackson, proving that jazz is an omnivorous genre. A dynamite four-piece horn section and an elite rhythm section bolstered by shimmering vibraphone roar through complex but catchy arrangements of groovy MJ hits from Rock With You to Smooth Criminal to Thriller.
SFJAZZ Collective plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Friday, June 24 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Saturday, June 25 at 6 p.m.
NAC Back Stage
The Polish pianist, 40, and his cohorts grew up together musically, playing together since they were teenagers. An incredible rapport is the result of such a long playing history. On several albums for the vaunted Munich-based ECM Records label, Wasilewski’s trio has excelled at producing evocative chamber jazz, peppered with the occasional vigorous driving track. Keep your fingers crossed for the trio to play its transporting version of Prince’s ballad Diamonds And Pearls.
Marcin Wasilewski Trio plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Saturday, June 25 at 6 p.m. at the NAC Back Stage.
John Scofield/Joe Lovano Quartet
Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m.
NAC Theatre
Over the years, Ottawa jazz fans have seen guitarist Scofield and saxophonist Lovano lead their own bands in the Confederation Park. This time out, the two stellar veterans, who have played together off and on since they were music students in the early 1970s, bring their rangy, blues-based and entirely distinctive music indoors. World-class drummer Bill Stewart and bedrock bassist Ben Street complete the group.
John Scofield and Joe Lovano play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m. at the NAC Theatre.
Amanda Tosoff “Words” Project
Tuesday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Already a notable player and composer in the bop-based tradition of jazz, the young Toronto-based pianist raised her game this year with her latest disc, which features beautiful, stirring original music inspired by Canadian (for the most part) poems. The entrancing, airy-voiced singer Felicity Williams is a key player in Tosoff’s project and guitarist Alex Goodman is invaluable, contributing ear-catching solos and background textures.
Amanda Tosoff plays the TD Ottawa Jess festival on Tuesday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
The Claudia Quintet
Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.
NAC Back Stage
Like no one else and in an almost intoxicating way, drummer and composer John Hollenbeck fuses jazz’s improvisatory spirit and the details and timbres of contemporary classical music. His one-of-a-kind quintet combines the sounds of vibraphone, clarinet, accordion and acoustic bass along with Hollenbeck’s drums. The result is a singular kind of chamber music — charged with creativity and even eccentricity, but lyrical and emotional too.
The Claudia Quintet play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m. on the NAC Back Stage.
Chick Corea Trio
Thursday, June 30 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Jazz groups don’t get any more all-star than this one, which features the 75-year-old pianist, still virtuosic and ceaselessly creative, joining forces with two monstrously talented musicians three decades his junior. For Christian McBride, playing with an unbeatable swing feel on acoustic bass seems as easy as breathing. Festival favourite Brian Blade is an inspired wild card of a drummer, adding deft splashes of colour or exploding in a percussive frenzy as the music requires.
Chick Corea Trio plays TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Thursday, June 30 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Marianne Trudel Quartet
Sunday, July 3 at 6:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
The Montreal pianist composes some of the most lyrical and even romantic themes in Canadian jazz, and she executes them with all-in conviction. I’ve seen almost crossly exhort her bandmates to play with more passion when they didn’t back her up with sufficient gusto. Her quartet features the fiery and engrossing Canadian expatriate trumpeter Ingrid Jensen.
Marianne Trudel and Ingrid Jensen play TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday, July 3, at 6:30 p.m. at Confederation Park.
Lynn Saxberg’s non-jazz picks
Sarah McLachlan
Saturday, June 25 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Canada’s queen of folk-pop returns to festival stages this summer for the first time since her Lilith Fair days. Still touring behind her 2014 album, Shine On, McLachlan has no plans to dabble in jazz when she visits jazz fests, but you can always count on her exquisite vocals, familiar, soothing songs, and a terrific band that lends a pleasing punch to her delicate balladry.
Sarah McLachlan plays the TD Ottawa Jazzfest Saturday, June 25 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Sunday, June 26 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Jones is a favourite with festival crowds. A high-energy dynamo with the showmanship of a James Brown or Tina Turner, she’s an authentic voice of old-school American soul music. Backed by her slick band the Dap-Kings, their latest album was the Grammy-nominated Give The People What They Want. Jones is also the subject of a new documentary, while her newest online hit is a sultry cover of the Allman Brothers’ Midnight Rider. It was recorded for a car commercial, but we’re not holding that against her.
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings play TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday, June 26 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Ben Caplan
Monday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Tartan Homes Stage
The bushy East Coast troubadour has been touring steadily since last year’s release of his excellent sophomore effort, Birds with Broken Wings. Recorded with Chelsea-bred musical visionary Josh “Socalled” Dolgin, the songs mix Eastern European and Jewish folk traditions with epic storytelling and ferocious vocals. His powerful voice may raise the roof; here’s hoping the Tartan Stage tent is installed securely.
Ben Caplan plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m. on the Tartan Homes Stage.
CloZee
Monday, June 27 at 10:30 p.m.
Tartan Homes Stage
If you’re a fan of world music and/or electronica, don’t miss CloZee, aka Chloe Herry from Toulouse, France. One of the few women in the genre, she’s a DJ/producer who kneads sounds, both organic and electronic, into a mesmerizing ethno-fusion concoction that might compel you to bust out your snakiest dance moves.
CloZee plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, June 27, at 10:30 p.m. on the Tartan Homes Stage.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Tuesday, June 28 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Now well into her 70s, the Canadian folk legend has been in the spotlight a lot in the last year, largely because of the success of her superb album, Power In the Blood, arguably her best in decades. It earned last year’s prestigious Polaris Prize as well as two Juno Awards, and has led to some high-profile appearances, including a slot at this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. No question, her beat-savvy vitality is always inspiring to see.
Buffy Sainte-Marie plays the TD Ottawa Jazzfest on Thursday, June 28 at 8:30 p.m. at Confederation Park.
Jim Bryson
Thursday, June 30 at 10:30 p.m.
Tartan Homes Stage
The hard-working and unassuming Bryson is one of Ottawa’s finest singer-songwriters, as demonstrated on his sixth album, Somewhere We Will Find Our Place. Described in one review as “restless, urgent and quirky,” the album was created in a studio/shed behind Bryson’s home in Stittsville, and features some of Ottawa’s best-known musicians. It’s a keeper.
Jim Bryson plays TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Thursday, June 30, at 10:30 p.m. on the Tartan Homes Stage.
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Saturday, July 2 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
The guy responsible for some of my all-time favourite festival shows in Ottawa is back for the first time in several years, this time as a Saturday night headliner. A San Francisco-based roots-reggae artist, Franti is famous for the joyful vibe of his music, which is often paired with a message of peace and love. The latest example is his powerful new single, Good To Be Alive.
Michael Franti plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 2, at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Brian Wilson
Sunday, July 3 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds, the landmark Beach Boys album, band co-founder Brian Wilson is touring to revisit the songs he wrote in his early 20s. No matter what you think of the album, it’s a rare chance to see a musical genius re-interpret his masterpiece with a band that includes one of his compadres (fellow Beach Boy Al Jardine).
Brian Wilson plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday, July 3, at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
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Peter Hum’s picks
Myra Melford’s Snowy Egret
Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m.
NAC Back Stage
The Berkeley, California-based pianist, 59, is pigeonholed, and celebrated, as an avant-gardist. But for all its innovation, Melford’s music offer much in the way of groove, melody and freshness. Melford’s five-piece band includes some strikingly unique musicians — the fascinating drummer Tyshawn Sorey in particular — united in common cause.
Myra Melford with her group Snowy Egret play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m. at the NAC Back Stage.
SFJAZZ Collective
Friday, June 24 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
This time out, the all-star octet applies its virtuosic ways to the music of Michael Jackson, proving that jazz is an omnivorous genre. A dynamite four-piece horn section and an elite rhythm section bolstered by shimmering vibraphone roar through complex but catchy arrangements of groovy MJ hits from Rock With You to Smooth Criminal to Thriller.
SFJAZZ Collective plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Friday, June 24 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Marcin Wasilewski Trio
Saturday, June 25 at 6 p.m.
NAC Back Stage
The Polish pianist, 40, and his cohorts grew up together musically, playing together since they were teenagers. An incredible rapport is the result of such a long playing history. On several albums for the vaunted Munich-based ECM Records label, Wasilewski’s trio has excelled at producing evocative chamber jazz, peppered with the occasional vigorous driving track. Keep your fingers crossed for the trio to play its transporting version of Prince’s ballad Diamonds And Pearls.
Marcin Wasilewski Trio plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Saturday, June 25 at 6 p.m. at the NAC Back Stage.
John Scofield/Joe Lovano Quartet
Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m.
NAC Theatre
Over the years, Ottawa jazz fans have seen guitarist Scofield and saxophonist Lovano lead their own bands in the Confederation Park. This time out, the two stellar veterans, who have played together off and on since they were music students in the early 1970s, bring their rangy, blues-based and entirely distinctive music indoors. World-class drummer Bill Stewart and bedrock bassist Ben Street complete the group.
John Scofield and Joe Lovano play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Saturday, June 25, at 7 p.m. at the NAC Theatre.
Amanda Tosoff “Words” Project
Tuesday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Already a notable player and composer in the bop-based tradition of jazz, the young Toronto-based pianist raised her game this year with her latest disc, which features beautiful, stirring original music inspired by Canadian (for the most part) poems. The entrancing, airy-voiced singer Felicity Williams is a key player in Tosoff’s project and guitarist Alex Goodman is invaluable, contributing ear-catching solos and background textures.
Amanda Tosoff plays the TD Ottawa Jess festival on Tuesday, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
The Claudia Quintet
Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m.
NAC Back Stage
Like no one else and in an almost intoxicating way, drummer and composer John Hollenbeck fuses jazz’s improvisatory spirit and the details and timbres of contemporary classical music. His one-of-a-kind quintet combines the sounds of vibraphone, clarinet, accordion and acoustic bass along with Hollenbeck’s drums. The result is a singular kind of chamber music — charged with creativity and even eccentricity, but lyrical and emotional too.
The Claudia Quintet play the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Wednesday, June 29 at 6 p.m. on the NAC Back Stage.
Chick Corea Trio
Thursday, June 30 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Jazz groups don’t get any more all-star than this one, which features the 75-year-old pianist, still virtuosic and ceaselessly creative, joining forces with two monstrously talented musicians three decades his junior. For Christian McBride, playing with an unbeatable swing feel on acoustic bass seems as easy as breathing. Festival favourite Brian Blade is an inspired wild card of a drummer, adding deft splashes of colour or exploding in a percussive frenzy as the music requires.
Chick Corea Trio plays TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Thursday, June 30 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Marianne Trudel Quartet
Sunday, July 3 at 6:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
The Montreal pianist composes some of the most lyrical and even romantic themes in Canadian jazz, and she executes them with all-in conviction. I’ve seen almost crossly exhort her bandmates to play with more passion when they didn’t back her up with sufficient gusto. Her quartet features the fiery and engrossing Canadian expatriate trumpeter Ingrid Jensen.
Marianne Trudel and Ingrid Jensen play TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday, July 3, at 6:30 p.m. at Confederation Park.
Lynn Saxberg’s non-jazz picks
Sarah McLachlan
Saturday, June 25 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Canada’s queen of folk-pop returns to festival stages this summer for the first time since her Lilith Fair days. Still touring behind her 2014 album, Shine On, McLachlan has no plans to dabble in jazz when she visits jazz fests, but you can always count on her exquisite vocals, familiar, soothing songs, and a terrific band that lends a pleasing punch to her delicate balladry.
Sarah McLachlan plays the TD Ottawa Jazzfest Saturday, June 25 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Sunday, June 26 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Jones is a favourite with festival crowds. A high-energy dynamo with the showmanship of a James Brown or Tina Turner, she’s an authentic voice of old-school American soul music. Backed by her slick band the Dap-Kings, their latest album was the Grammy-nominated Give The People What They Want. Jones is also the subject of a new documentary, while her newest online hit is a sultry cover of the Allman Brothers’ Midnight Rider. It was recorded for a car commercial, but we’re not holding that against her.
Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings play TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday, June 26 at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Ben Caplan
Monday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Tartan Homes Stage
The bushy East Coast troubadour has been touring steadily since last year’s release of his excellent sophomore effort, Birds with Broken Wings. Recorded with Chelsea-bred musical visionary Josh “Socalled” Dolgin, the songs mix Eastern European and Jewish folk traditions with epic storytelling and ferocious vocals. His powerful voice may raise the roof; here’s hoping the Tartan Stage tent is installed securely.
Ben Caplan plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m. on the Tartan Homes Stage.
CloZee
Monday, June 27 at 10:30 p.m.
Tartan Homes Stage
If you’re a fan of world music and/or electronica, don’t miss CloZee, aka Chloe Herry from Toulouse, France. One of the few women in the genre, she’s a DJ/producer who kneads sounds, both organic and electronic, into a mesmerizing ethno-fusion concoction that might compel you to bust out your snakiest dance moves.
CloZee plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Monday, June 27, at 10:30 p.m. on the Tartan Homes Stage.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Tuesday, June 28 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
Now well into her 70s, the Canadian folk legend has been in the spotlight a lot in the last year, largely because of the success of her superb album, Power In the Blood, arguably her best in decades. It earned last year’s prestigious Polaris Prize as well as two Juno Awards, and has led to some high-profile appearances, including a slot at this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. No question, her beat-savvy vitality is always inspiring to see.
Buffy Sainte-Marie plays the TD Ottawa Jazzfest on Thursday, June 28 at 8:30 p.m. at Confederation Park.
Jim Bryson
Thursday, June 30 at 10:30 p.m.
Tartan Homes Stage
The hard-working and unassuming Bryson is one of Ottawa’s finest singer-songwriters, as demonstrated on his sixth album, Somewhere We Will Find Our Place. Described in one review as “restless, urgent and quirky,” the album was created in a studio/shed behind Bryson’s home in Stittsville, and features some of Ottawa’s best-known musicians. It’s a keeper.
Jim Bryson plays TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Thursday, June 30, at 10:30 p.m. on the Tartan Homes Stage.
Michael Franti & Spearhead
Saturday, July 2 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
The guy responsible for some of my all-time favourite festival shows in Ottawa is back for the first time in several years, this time as a Saturday night headliner. A San Francisco-based roots-reggae artist, Franti is famous for the joyful vibe of his music, which is often paired with a message of peace and love. The latest example is his powerful new single, Good To Be Alive.
Michael Franti plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 2, at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
Brian Wilson
Sunday, July 3 at 8:30 p.m.
Confederation Park
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds, the landmark Beach Boys album, band co-founder Brian Wilson is touring to revisit the songs he wrote in his early 20s. No matter what you think of the album, it’s a rare chance to see a musical genius re-interpret his masterpiece with a band that includes one of his compadres (fellow Beach Boy Al Jardine).
Brian Wilson plays the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Sunday, July 3, at 8:30 p.m. in Confederation Park.
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