What to do for the 4th of July holiday?
After much deliberation, checking my press credentials and my bank balance, I finally decided that the most patriotic thing I could do was go to see Bob Dylan play at the Montreal Jazz Festival on Independence Day. It wasn’t just the Dylan show that I was going to attend. The Montreal Jazz Festival ran from June 28 until July 8 with over 650 performances, almost 400 of them free. I was going to be there for just over a week. The festival is extremely diverse and not at all restricted to jazz; there was also plenty of rock, electronic, and world music, lots and lots of world music. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and saxophonist Josh Redman both performed at the festival. Marsalis presented Congo Square with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra while Josh Redman played it straight with a small group – and each man was at the top of …READ MORE tags: music, reviews 1 « add a comment • FILM FEST REVIEW: A Brief Overview of the 2007 SXSW Film Festival by Mitch Myers, Tue Mar 27, 2007 By Mitch Mye
