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Rick Keene Music Scene –  Montreal International Jazz Festival Announces Lineup.

Jazz says Summer. Buy Tickets Festival de la Voix Here La Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is always a treat. Although the Festival contains music from all genres , Jazz and Montreal are a happily married couple. Buddy Guy is saying goodbye to touring, and Montreal is one stop on a very impressive and long tour for someone who is eighty- six years old. … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene –  Montreal International Jazz Festival Announces Lineup.

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Top Ten Isolation Songs

Music can make the isolation blues go away. Nobody around the world likes to have their lives taken away. Sports, concerts – all the things we love and need, a memory looming in our psyches. The longer isolation goes on – the more society risks everything. Along with isolation comes many forms of discontentment. Depression. Violence. Thoughts that would make Jack Torrence proud. The soul … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Top Ten Isolation Songs

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Smoke Meat Pete Blues Playlist

It always comes back to the Blues. From Charlie Parker to Chuck Berry. From Billie Holiday to Colin James. From Stevie Ray Vaughan to The Rolling Stones. The Blues are essential. Please listen below to some of Montreal’s best Blues players and a classic track from the past. Visit Smoke Meat Pete Here ! Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Smoke Meat Pete Blues Playlist

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Rick Keene Music Scene – The ‘Rock Doc’ Neil Ratner Talks Music Industry, Anesthesiology and Michael Jackson

Special to Rick Keene Music Scene.com Neil Ratner is a name that has been associated with the Rock n Roll scene since the 1960s. While pursuing a career as a drummer, Neil got a gig working on the road that led to associations with Emerson Lake and Palmer, Pink Floyd and later on the king of pop himself; Michael Jackson. Neil recently released his book … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – The ‘Rock Doc’ Neil Ratner Talks Music Industry, Anesthesiology and Michael Jackson

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Colin James ‘Returns’ Home

Ya think you know somebody … For many of the audience attending Colin James’ show at the Montreal Jazz Festival – the fact that Colin once lived in Montreal for a year and a half, came as a surprise. James recanted the tales of living in Lachine and Verdun and busking in the Metros. He also told stories of many gigs in this city. Places … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Colin James ‘Returns’ Home

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Ten Essential Tracks and Show Listings

Sometimes you never hear the songs that are coming to a town near you . Most of the great tunes are released to no fanfare from anyone – let alone to the common man. Have a listen below to some new tracks, a couple of familiar tracks and some shows coming soon to Montreal ! Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Ten Essential Tracks and Show Listings

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Gino Vannelli Is Still Here and Better Than Ever …

Soul Train, the television show which featured Gino Vannelli as it’s first ‘white’ performer is long gone. Gino, on the other hand, is improving with age. The sixty-six year old native Montrealer returned home this past weekend on the heels of his first album of new material in over a decade. Wilderness Road is the name of Gino’s twentieth album and it may rank as … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Gino Vannelli Is Still Here and Better Than Ever …

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Celebrating Forty Years of Jazz!

The Montreal International Jazz Festival is celebrating an anniversary with a bang. It has been forty years since those days on St Denis street. A simpler time for the city of Montreal, music and the world. Simple may have been good for humanity but the complexity of The Montreal Jazz Festival is more than welcome. The city of Montreal has become a beacon for all … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Celebrating Forty Years of Jazz!

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Dawn Tyler Watson is Mad About Love on Her New Disc !

Dawn Tyler Watson has the throne … She is Queen of the Montreal Blues scene and is continuing her reign with a great new album. Mad Love is the name of the disc and features some very special guests. Please listen below to my chat with Dawn and hear some tunes from the new album Dawn? What’s Up? Visit Dawn Here ! Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Dawn Tyler Watson is Mad About Love on Her New Disc !

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Ben Winkelman ‘Balances’ Latin Rhythms to Jazz On Latest Release

Once a drummer, always a drummer … Ben Winkelman is an accomplished pianist now and by no means an ‘artist’ behind the kit. Does his first instrument play into his mentality on his latest disc Balance? Perhaps … Please listen below to my chat with Ben. Hear some great tunes as well ! Ben? What’s up? Visit Ben Here ! Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Ben Winkelman ‘Balances’ Latin Rhythms to Jazz On Latest Release

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Rick Keene Music Scene – Foreigner Bring Some ‘Hot Blood’ To Montreal

First thing you need to know, Foreigner 2019 is not your Father’s Foreigner. Gone is the golden voice that belted out the songs of many people’s youth. Lou Gramm (vocals) and Mick Jones ( Guitar, Keys, vocals) wrote collectively or individually a Rock n Roll catalog which placed the band as one of the biggest selling bands of all time. Gramm may be gone but … Continue reading Rick Keene Music Scene – Foreigner Bring Some ‘Hot Blood’ To Montreal

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