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World-Renowned Trumpeter Terence Blanchard Teaches a New Generation to Make Music That Matters

Fire Shut Up in My Bones will be the first opera by an African American composer to be staged at the Met.

Wu Tang Clan Vancouver

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Wu-Tang Clan

<em>Bring Da Ruckus.</em>

The New York rappers headline this year’s TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

MONTE Blog: Cecile McLorin

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Cécile McLorin Salvant

World class jazz.

“Although audiences are a little different in different parts of the world, I feel that jazz speaks to everyone, no matter where they are.”

MONTE Blog: Dee Dee

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Dee Dee Bridgewater

All that jazz.

“When I am performing live, I try to involve the audience, share with them, let the music speak to them.”

MONTECRISTO Blog: Percussionist Sal Ferreras Video

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Percussionist Sal Ferreras

Get rhythm.

Get in the groove with some beats from the renowned musician.

MONTECRISTO Blog: Wynton Marsalis at the Chan Centre

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A Legend, Live

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) filed onto the stage, and the sold-out crowd erupted in cheers as the evening began. Founder and leader Wynton Marsalis has assembled a talented group from the crème de la crème from the world of musical education and jazz.

MONTECRISTO: Pablo Ziegler

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Pablo Ziegler

Tango in the night.

Pablo Ziegler toured for over a decade with Ástor Piazzolla’s New Tango Quintet, all the while writing his own music, exploring his ideas of how tango and jazz can fuse into something special.

MONTECRISTO Magazine: Percussionist Sal Ferreras

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Percussionist Sal Ferreras

Get rhythm.

The former principal percussionist of the CBC Radio Orchestra, Sal Ferreras is also dean of the VCC School of Music and artistic director of the Literary Cabaret at the Vancouver International Writers Festival.