PAT METHENEY , GUITARIST

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OLIVER JONES, USA

OLIVER JONES AT JAZZ WORKSHOP IN MONTREAL PHOTO BY LA TOAN VINH

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"International renowned pianist, a great favourite with critics and the public alike OLIVER JONES"

THE BOMB SQUAD,U.S.A

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"They call it " sophistafunk" you'll call it "Da Bomb"
since capturing the mass audience with their horn-powered performance at the 2003 American music Awards, the New york group(formed in 2001) has been detonating on stages everywhere with a volatile mix of rock, latin, R&B, soul and, of course, funk, with nine members executing in all directions and a soul singer, Jen Durkin, who has to be heard to be believed the Bomb Squad is Blowin'up"

LORRAINE DESMARAIS, pianiste-Montreal

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"Two awards at the internationale de Jazz de Montreal(in 1984 and 1992) A Félix 1985, The Socan Composer's Award in 1991, another award at the Great Jazz Piano American Competition in Florida and on it goes, The long list of Award gamered by this Jazz Pianist as well as composer and Music director, speaks for it Self, LORRAINE DESMARAIS is without doubt one of the Must-see"

KHAC CHI, NGOC BICH, VIET-NAM

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" having adopted Vancouver as their home since 1992,the husband/wife team of Hồ Khắc Chí and Hoàng Ngọc Bích introduce us to the pleasyres of a Panoply of bamboo instruments native to Việt-Nam.
Their approach is intensely physical, using their mouths, Hands, feet and body to summon an extravagant variety of sounds from a repertoire featuring traditional Vietnamese folk and contemporary misics. Virtuoso exoticism"

THE MOONLIGHT GIRLS, CANADA

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" This excellencet all-girls vocal trio made a big splash on the outdoor site at last last year's 25th anniversary Festival . they're back with they winning homage to the Andrew Sisters, "America's Wartime Sweethearts" who were honest-to-goodness superstars of the 30s/40s era, raking up 46 top ten hits and selling 90 million albums, The girlsrecreate the sound while adapting modern songs, including a Beau Dommage number, into an evening of rétro pleasures"

MIN RAGER , KOREAN

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A talented pianist-composer Korean Min Rager played at the 26th annual of the International Jazz Festival in Montreal 2005.
It's a biggest of the world's festival of Jazz as they called by the Guinness World records "World's largest JAZZ festival .
Min Rager was performance in the greatest night of the festival she is also nominated for The Grand Prix of General motors and Prix émiles Galaxie Radio-Canada.
as we know, It have 1.000.000 audiences visited for last year
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KING SUNSHIRNE, TORONTO, CANADA

"Talented, creative, passionate and you can dance to them! this 12 piece Toronto outfit- with a big brass section and a powerhouse female singer-sought to create a house-centric fusion that intergrates elements of Jazz,electronica, Latin and soul into a disco-funk sound that defies anybody to resist the dancefloor.Thoroughly original and captivating"..

ACCOULES SAX, Marseille,FRANCE

" here's a brass band that loves taking it to the street especially in the nam of a good cause. The Marseille troupe and in SIX SAXES call on all right-minded party people to celebrate the life-force and oppose totalitarianism in all its forms. Their exhilarating, rowing sound peals out an appeal for justice, healing hopelessness with the joys of music"
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GANGBÉ BRASS BAND, BENIN

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"Formed in 1994 by the collective of young players from Benin, the Gangbé merge African percussion with wind instruments(trumpet, trombone, euphonium)into what they like to call" the sound of métal" and how with a flash of Dahomey Voodoo rhythm, these 12 musicians offer a stunning fusion of Jazz and tradition Benini music powered by thunderour horns, setting a scene of mad onstage singing and dancing,heavy métal"

JAZZINHO, ENGLAND

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GADJI-GADJO MONTREAL

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"Back at the festival, these six Montréal musicians will carry you away their Franco-gyspsymanouche SWING"

GUY NADON Music Band 2005

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Twenty-fours consecutive Festivals The roi du Drum keeps the beat going.The incomparable Guy Nadon Winner of the prix Oscar Peterson in 1998, Star of humour and wild chop intact

DIBONBOCO Jazz music Band - MONTRÉAL

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"Who better than Dibondoko to kick off this series dedicated to the marriage of world music and groove. Taking their name from the Cameroonian Douana party tradition, the worl dly sextet introdues FUNK to ZOUK to REGGAE and invites them all to cut a rag. Dibondido is the sound of Montreal's cultural diversity in Motion

BRINK MAN SHIP (SUISSE)

BRINK MAN SHIP Featuring NYA
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ALBERTA ADAMS, JAZZWOMAN, USA

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JAZZ FESTIVAL 2005

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE JAZZ DE MONTREAL
30 juin au 10 juillet 2005
www.montrealjazzfestival.com
OPENING HOT PARADE JAZZ
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