Continuer? Certainement! De retour ensemble après un hiatus de près de 10 ans (durant lequel on vu les Walsh, Dostaler, Cartier et Tanguay dans 1000 autres collaborations), les Dangereux Zhoms et leur leader, le souffleur et compositeur Jean Derome, reprennent là où ils les avaient laissées les impros jazzées auxquelles ils nous avaient habitués avec trois disques en 95, 96 et 98. L’un des meilleurs combos du genre en ville, même s’il manque un peu ici de l’électricité des premiers enregistrements. (3,5/5)

Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles by Danielle Palardy Roger is finalist for Opus Prize. The gala will take place on Sunday January 27, 2008, date on which winners will be designated. According to Nilan Perera in Exclaim! (Canada) of April 10, 2006 issue, Bruiducœur, prières des infidèles is a strong and challenging work. Note that this CD has a red label… Take advantage of it!

Montréal jazz writer and radio host Len Dobbin has chosen Étymologie in his top CDs. Dobbin had written about this release: “A DVD of one of the city’s finest trios shot live at last year’s OFF Festival […].”… Psst! This disc has also a red label (33% off)!

The Trio Jean Félix Mailloux — with Arden Arapyan (piano), Jean Félix Mailloux (doublebass), and Jonathan Racine-Ménard (drums) — will be in concert on Sunday December 23, 2007 at Upstairs Jazz Bar & Grill in Montréal.

The next Mercredimusics of Casa Obscura will take place on December 12, 2007. Listen to Lori Freedman (clarinet), Jean-Marc Hébert (guitar), Diane Labrosse (sampler), Alejandro Rodriguez (electric bass), Damián Nisenson (saxophone), Ziya Tabassian (percussion) in an improvisation inspired by the images of Nosferatu, silent movie realised in 1922 by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.

A great interview given by Clément Topping, head of Promotions at DAME, is available on Panpot website. The article makes a nifty wrap up of the musical year 2007 and gives a foretaste of what is to come for DAME and the labels it represents. Have fun reading it!