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The Montreal International Jazz Festival has broken out a second Miles Davis Award this year for jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. BIRDLAND SCHEDULE Since June 2004, Birdland’s Concert Grand Piano has been made available through the support of Bosendorfer. NPR Music’s partner-in-crime WBGO is sending a small delegation to Quebec this week for the Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the biggest events of its kind. The station’s blog is acting as a home base for its archives. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us Milo Miles highlights the 30th Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest event of its kind in the world. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us Fight the Big Bull, whose concert will be streamed live on NPR.org Tuesday night, sounds like the brainchild of a young composer who grew up with rock on the radio, jazz canons in the conservatory and everything else at his disposal on the Internet. The orchestration of “Dying Will Be Easy” has the fullness and audacity of a Mingus or Ellington. ? E-Mail This ???? ? Add to Del.icio.us Ornette Coleman, an American musician known as one of the greatest innovaters in free jazz, has won the Miles Davis Award at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. TD Bank Financial Group will take over from General Motors as title sponsor of the Montreal International Jazz Festival starting in 2010. Ornette Coleman is playing the Montreal International Jazz Fest for the first time in 20 years, and he is being honoured by the fest with the Miles Davis Award for lifetime achievement, to both of which I can only say: It’s about time. A free outdoor concert by Stevie Wonder on Tuesday evening will kick off the Montreal International Jazz Festival’s 30th anniversary edition, which is billed by many as the biggest event of its kind in the world. MONTREAL - When the Montreal International Jazz Festival staged its first event some 30 years ago, co-founders Andre Menard and Alain Simard hoped it would be a “nice place of convergence” for musicians and music lovers.
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