FREE JAZZ AND OTHER FORMS OF IMPROVISED MUSIC IN MONTREAL
Books:
— Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec, 1967-1975. Trans. David Homel. Montreal: Véhicule Press, [Forthcoming; Spring 2025].
— JAZZ LIBRE et la révolution québécoise. Musique-action, 1967-1975. Montreal: M Éditeur, 2019.
Articles and Chapters:
— “Patrick Straram: Blues clair X Blues clair.” In Vincent Meessen. Blues Klair, edited by Vincent Meessen and Michèle Thériault, 217-235. Montreal: Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (in partnership with The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery), 2021.
— “The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec libre, 1970-73.” In Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities Across Time and Place, edited by Peter Gossage and Robert Rutherdale, 236-254. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.
— “Parti pris pour le jazz ou l’écoute engagée chez la gauche québécoise.” In Avec ou sans Parti pris: le legs d’une revue, edited by Gilles Dupuis, Karim Larose, Frédéric Rondeau, and Robert Schwartzwald, 425-448. Montreal: Éditions Nota bene, 2018.
— “Jazz libre: musique-action ou la recherche d’une praxis révolutionnaire au Québec (1967-1975).” Labour / Le Travail 77 (Spring 2016): 93-120. *** Political History Prize (best French language article) awarded by the Political History Group of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA). ***
— “Jazz libre et free jazz.” In La contre-culture au Québec, edited by Karim Larose and Frédéric Rondeau, 25-54. Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2016.
— “Le sahabi de Sonde: évolution et mutation d’une source sonore.” Circuit: musiques contemporaines 23, 1 (2013): 9-14.
Interviews:
— “Ce soir on improvise: entretien avec Raymond Gervais et Michel di Torre.” Hors champ (4 January, 2012).
— “Vive les animaux et/ou Y’a du dehors dedans: entretien avec Pierre Monat.” Hors champ (4 January, 2012).
Op-Ed:
— “Dans les marges de l’histoire: penser l’archive à sa source.” MOQDOC: The Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America – Montréal, Ottawa, Québec, 11 December 2020.
Book Reviews:
— Live at the Cellar: Vancouver’s Iconic Jazz Club and the Canadian Co-operative Jazz Scene in the 1950s and ‘60s, by Marian Jago. Labour / Le Travail 85 (Spring 2020): 302-304.
— National Manhood and the Creation of Modern Quebec, by Jeffery Vacante. Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française 72, no. 3 (Winter 2019): 120-123.
Conferences and Presentations:
“Rethinking Spontaneity: Improvisation in the Wake of the October Crisis.” Public talk sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Canadian and Transnational History (University of Toronto). Virtual talk; 17 November 2020.
“Music Amid Crisis: Improvisation as Praxis in Quebec.” Rethinking October international conference presented by the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History. Virtual conference; 16 October 2020.
“Jazz Libre: The Musical-Political Praxis of the Quebec Left.” Thinking Spaces series sponsored by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and the University of Guelph Department of History. Guelph; 12 March 2020.
Panel discussion with John Gilmore. “Play Free!” A Conversation on the Histories of Montreal’s Improvised Music Scenes (Suoni Per Il Popolo festival). Montreal; 16 June 2019.
“Performing Masculinities in Post-Quiet Revolution Québec: Musicking and Oral History.” Making Men, Making History: A Roundtable on Masculinities and Oral History, 52nd annual meeting of the Oral History Association (OHA). Montreal; 11 October 2018.
“Liberation Music: Free Jazz Travels North.” Music in History: Post-1945 U. S. History through Music (course offered by Elena Razlogova at Concordia University). Montreal; 31 October 2017.
“Montréal improvisé: un nouveau paysage musical au lendemain de l’Expo 67.” Conference series Histoire de Montréal en mots, en musique et en images (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec / Concordia University). Montreal; 10 October 2017.
Keynote for the Ça jazz en socio event. Annual congress of the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF). Montreal; 7 July 2016.
“Toward a Revolutionary Praxis: Free Jazz in Post-Quiet Revolution Quebec.” Annual congress of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM Canada / United States). Calgary; 30 May 2016.
Round-table for the launch of La contre-culture au Québec (Librairie Olivieri). Montreal; 27 February 2016.
“Listening to (and Participating in) Quebec’s Musical Avant-Garde: Experimentalism and Free Jazz at the Turn of the 1970s.” Digital Literacy Project (Atwater Library and Computer Centre). Montreal; 23 October 2015.
“Jazz libre: musique-action ou la recherche d’une praxis révolutionnaire au Québec (1967-1975).” 67th annual meeting of the Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française (IHAF). Quebec City; 17 October 2014.
“Le nouvel homme québécois: improvisation collective et militantisme au Petit Québec libre.” 82nd Annual meeting of the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS). Montreal; 12 May 2014.
“The ‘Necessary Appropriation’ of Jazz: Music, Decolonization, and the Quebec Left in 1960s and 1970s Montreal.” Social and Cultural Geographies of Montreal (course offered by Ted Rutland at Concordia University). Montreal; 5 February 2014.
“Parti pris pour le jazz ou la construction de l’écoute chez la gauche québécoise, 1963-1968.” Avec ou sans Parti pris international conference (Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises / Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec). Montreal; 4 October 2013.
Film Programming, Curating, and Workshops:
Around and About Improvisation in the Archive (IMPR Seminar, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation). Guelph; 17 January 2024.
[Collective] Sounds from the Inside (Pedagogy Lab, International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation). Guelph; 12 March 2020.
Local Records #1: Musical Improvisation in the Archives (Gallery Leonard & Bina Ellen). Montreal; 13 September 2016.
Studio d’écoute 1: free jazz et vidéo (Centre DAÏMÕN). Gatineau; 21 November 2012.
Liner Notes:
L’Atelier de musique expérimentale. Le Trio expansible – enregistrement inédit de 1973. ℗ 2021. Tour de bras. CD.
Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec. Musique-politique. Anthologie 1971-1974. ℗ 2019. Tour de bras. Boxset, 4 CDs.
Nouveau jazz libre du Québec. En direct du Suoni Per Il Popolo. ℗ 2014. Bronze Age Records. LP.