Thanks to Christian Dugas’s participation on drums, Martin Tétreault will present Solo de batterie sur vinyles avec 4 tourne-disques, followed by a short improvisation with Andrew Liles, on May 12, 2007 at Send + Receive Festival in Winnipeg.

First: the next Mercredimusics will host Isaiah Ceccarelli, Marie Neige Lavigne, Jean Félix Mailloux, Damián Nisenson, Clinton Ryder, and Ziya Tabassian for a film/music improvisation evening on May 9, 2007 at Casa Obscura in Montréal. Then, on May 11, the Trio Damian Nisensson (with Jean Félix Mailloux and Pierre Tanguay) will play with his guest Denis Plante (bandoneon) at Lion d’or. Finally, you can meet the trio again at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill on May 13. Listen to them on Muzika, Lieux-dits, and Cordâme.

The Normand Guilbeault Ensemble will present, on 18 May, 2007, its great tribute to Charles Mingus in the Master of Jazz series presented as part of The Israeli Opera Tel Aviv-Yafo’s 2006-07 season (Israel). You can’t be there? Then you should buy the excellent Mingus Erectus for which online audio clips are avalaible.

Le Silence des hommes whispers silence, whispers love: the one that leaves traces; the one that pearces, changes, hurts us; the one that we will never forget. Meet performer and poet artist D. Kimm, guitarist Bernard Falaise, singer Michel Faubert, and the musicians Frédéric Boudreault, Alexis Martin, Alex McMahon at La Sala Rossa in Montréal on May 16, 2007. Excerpts of the album Le Silence des hommes are online.

Frank Martel et l’Ouest céleste (Michel F Côté, Éloi Deit, Bernard Falaise, Frank Martel) and Peter Paul will be at Divan orange in Montréal on May 15, 2007. Listen to some online audio clips of Yé-Yi-You-Ya by Frank Martel.

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.