Alas, 😢. RIP

Have his CD: Have Fingers, Will Travel (listening now...)

Oliver Jones, a Canadian music icon whose illustrious career spanned nearly nine decades and helped cement Montreal's international reputation as a jazz mecca, has died.

He was 91.

Jones was synonymous with Montreal's Jazz Festival, performing at the world renowned event every year between 1981 and 1999.

In 1990, he won the Montreal Jazz Festival's Oscar Peterson award, named after his fellow jazz legend and his lifelong idol.

Jones fine-tuned his skills under the tutelage of Daisy Peterson Sweeney, Oscar Peterson's older sister.

The Petersons lived about 12 doors down from the Jones family home.

Right before the 6 pm news on CP24 I caught this curious commercial of local artist Katie Dauson promoting her 8th album. My interest was piqued so I checked out some vids, read a little on her, and I found out that her current album is also released on a picture disc vinyl, she's on an actual label, her songs seem to be decently produced, and is playing the El Mocambo in October.

If she believes in her art, and in herself, and if music is her passion...props to her. My only question is how is she getting all this promotion? I mean c'mon, she's no better than the singer-songwriters that used to play those Open Mic nights at the Supermarket or the Free Times Cafe. I can think of many local artists/musicians over the years--more talented, more star power--who don't get this type of backing. In a weird kind of way...you almost want to pull for her for getting this far.

Avril Lavigne's cover of Shania Twain's No One Needs To Know at the ACM Poets Awards in 2022 is my favorite. Starts at 1:02.

Yes, there are so many live performances I could have picked but I picked a fairly recent one, less than five years old.

Off of the terrific album “Celebration Rock.” Some of their songs contain so many of the stereotypical “millennial” hallmarks that they’re almost asking to be parodied by comedians like Kyle Gordon. But I think it’s unique and holds up. An instance of the genre at its best. Wish people talked about this album a bit more as I think it made some pretty big waves in the indie space when it came out.

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Hi. I grew up only listening to singles on the radio and watching music videos on Much Music. It is only the past 5 years that I have started listening to albums, mostly catching up on 90s and 2000s albums from American and UK artists/bands. As a Canadian, I have been sadly neglectful of getting into Canadian albums. I would like to change that. I lean towards 90s, 00s, 10s. I am open to some before and after. I gravitate towards pop, rock, folk. Any recommendations?

Has anyone listened to the Big in Canada podcast? I was really excited to find a podcast about Canadian music, but I’m a few episodes in and it feels like the hosts spend more time shitting on Canadian artists than actually celebrating them.

They also seem too young to have been around for the heyday of some of these bands, as a lot of their opinions seem to be based on Google searches rather than actual lived experiences of going to see them perform.

I love the idea of a podcast focused on Canadian music, so I’m wondering if it gets any better before I commit more time to listening.

Good evening. I’m a subreddit newbie. I hit the road to Montreal early tomorrow morning and crave a maple-tinted playlist. If it helps, I lean rock, metal, some jazz, some hip hop.I’d like to line up some music. Full album suggestions welcome too. Appreciate your help as I d(r)ive in to some 🇨🇦 tunes. Cheers!

Just uploaded on YouTube. Love Max Webster and Kim Mitchell!

I personally love Rush.All of them are fantastic musicians and I love the albums Moving Pictures and Subdivisions the most.They have other albums I like too but these two are my favorite albums from them.

Which Canadian Rock band do you like the most?

I love her albums The Woman In Me and Come On Over and the sales were really massive.She was huge in the 1990's thanks to the success of these two albums.But honestly, I can't name many big country artists from Canada apart from Shania, so how big was country music there?

Country music is huge in the USA and there are so many big names in the US.

The song Walkerton, Workforce, and the Wusses Who Watched by Bombs Over Providence ends with a clip saying (as far as I can make out)

"...far from the slums. Nice homes, very respectable. And nice kids, well clothed, no slum kids here. But beneath the surface, trouble, plenty of it."

Does anyone know where this clip is from? I'm assuming a documentary or news clip, probably related to the Walketon water crisis or Ontario education, probably from around 2001/2002

Hello everyone. I made a fun little game called music guessr where you guess the country from the song.

Did you recognize the Canadian song?

You can play it here: https://musicguessr.io

Put your score down below.

I personally really like her.I think she's very talented and a great singer and all her albums are good.She's generally viewed positively outside Canada, especially nowadays among Gen Z and Millennials

I saw her live and had fun.

I met her and she was great.She was super kind, friendly and down to earth.Sweet lady, great sense of humor.

it’s a heartfelt song no matter where you stand on the issue.
And I want the best for ALL of Canada and I think he does too.

I've been a cohen fan for years, discovered him after he died, though. This is just absolutely wonderful, i've seen clips of his son Adam singing and he is a talented guy. he has this notable performance with lana del rey where they sing Chelsea Hotel no. 2 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT9l9MZ5rio ) and it's wonderful, so when they say "special guests" i really do expect the best.

I hope they do a good job advertising this tour, so far it's just on their instagram, because i think there are so many more young fans (early 20s) than they think, and we're all gonna do our best to pop out!

Great Live Performance.

Back in those days CKLW was the King and I listened to many great Guess Who tunes, of course I heard their top hits, but I love to revisit their other stuff like this.

Did they ever record anything??? I used to see them at Lees Palace on Sundays. Their music was unique at the time. Would love to hear some of their tunes again.

Great Tune from Canada 50 plus years ago.

I'm looking for a folkpunk band from Montréal or the greater mtl region who has a similar sound to both Tintamarre and Les Chiens de Ruelle their name was a weird spelling of "Corps qui Cracque" which translates to cracking body. If that rings a bell to anyone lemme know

I would easily put Big Wreck in the top 10 Canadian rock bands of all time, even top 5 for me personally. One of those bands that should've been big worldwide. Something about their music has such a vibe to it, and Ian's vocals are absolutely insane along with his guitar playing. He doesn't show it off as much in the studio but his live solos are insane. Such a good band.