Back Home With Canada’s Greatest Living Jazz Musician

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News; Articles; Musicians

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A week ago, Oliver Jones — the greatest living jazz musician in Canada — played his hometown Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the world’s largest. “Oliver Jones Plays Oliver Jones,” read the bill. It was the first time, he said in a conversation earlier last week, that the pianist, now 77, would be playing strictly his own tunes for an entire set. The show was an affirmation of his legacy, in Canada and abroad, and — backed by his trio of Jim Doxas on drums and Eric Lagacé on bass — he played brilliantly into the night.

Creator

MATTHEW KASSEL

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https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2012/07/12/156678757/back-home-with-canadas-greatest-living-jazz-musician

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npr.org

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