Hurray! L’OFF Festival de Jazz de Montréal is about to start! From June 13 - 21, 2008 thirty shows and more than a hundred musicians will occupy the stages of Pub Saint-Ciboire, Lion d’Or, Dièse onze, and La Sala Rossa. Amongst guest artists: Gordon M Allen, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Normand Guilbeault, Philippe Lauzier, Pierre-Yves Martel, Miles Perkin, and Marianne Trudel… To wit: the DAME et Ambiances Magnétiques improvisent night will take place on June 18 at Lion d’Or. Moreover, this 9th edition will open with a concert of the well-liked Fanfare Pourpour this Friday again at Lion d’Or.

Philippe Lauzier, Miles Perkin, and Isaiah Ceccarelli (not Robbie Kuster as previoulsy anounced) will be at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill in Montréal on June 11 and 12, 2008.

After the meeting with Antoine Berthiaume, Clinton Ryder, and Pierre Tanguay last Monday, Le cheval blanc (brewpub in Montréal) invites you to 2 new concerts: first, a concert on May 7, 2007 featuring Jean-Marc Hébert Quartet (Jean-Marc Hébert, Marie-Soleil Bélanger, Christophe Papadimitriou, Isaiah Ceccarelli); and on May 14 featuring Philippe Lauzier playing saxophones and bass clarinett, Miles Perkin, doublebass, and Thom Gossage, drums.

Philippe Lauzier (saxophones, bass clarinet), Antoine Berthiaume (guitar), and Miles Perkin (doublebass) will be at the Café l’Utopik in Montréal on Thursday February 22, 2007. You can also listen to them on the new CD Today is a Special Day.

Philippe Lauzier, saxophones, Miles Perkin, doublebass, and Thom Gossage, drums, will be at the Maison de la culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on February 15, 2007. You can also listen to them on the new CD Today is a Special Day.

L’OFF Festival de Jazz de Montréal will be held from June 23 to July 2, 2006. Here are some of the many featured concerts: the Jean Derome and Karen Young duo on June 23, the {nbio:lauzier_ph} {nbio:perkin_mi} {nbio:kuster_ro} trio on June 24, Pierre Cartier on June 25, L’Ensemble Pierre Labbé on June 26 and also the Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay on June 29.