Oliver Jones – July 5, at Theatre Maisonneuve

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal presents

Oliver Jones

80th Birthday Celebration

With every performance, the venerable Oliver Jones delights in offering us a magisterial demonstration of piano artistry. This living legend of jazz celebrates his 80th birthday with a gift for us, a superb soirée at Théâtre Maisonneuve. And as the cherry on top, the kid from Saint-Henri will be accompanied by some of his best musician friends: Lorraine Desmarais, Ranee Lee, Josée Aidans and Daniel Clarke Bouchard. Emotions will run high…

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Ranked as the world’s largest jazz festival by Guinness World Records, the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal has been synonymous with a passion for music for over three decades. Every year, the metropolis welcomes global music fans to 10 days of jazz-centric celebration, where fans of all types of jazz-related music rub shoulders with aficionados of the genre in its purest form. The Festival hosts some 30 countries, 3,000 musicians and public entertainers, 1,000 concerts and activities—two-thirds of them free – in 15 concert halls and on 8 outdoor stages, welcoming more than 2 million visitors to the city, from noon to midnight! And it all happens in the heart of Montreal’s downtown core, in an area off-limits to car traffic! There’s no doubt – Montreal is the heartbeat of Planet Jazz!
Check out the full festival line-up at www.montrealjazzfest.com