In a positive vision of development and for the future of Quebec jazz, based on the reality of the Quebec market and by extension of the Canadian market, linked to jazz, Effendi is looking for advisors, collaborators and mecenes to support the special projects of Quebec artists.

Thus Effendi wishes to set up a unique model of "international development" for Québec jazz musicians.

Since there are no concrete projects to promote EXPORT and / or EXPORT projects that can promote and transport Quebec jazz to other horizons, Effendi would like to design, with interested collaborators, a structure with a unique dimension in the musical landscape Québécois which could thus become an essential reference in order to set up mechanisms for exporting to foreign countries for jazz musicians here.

The special mission (title to be determined) would be to create a Quebec jazz industry, for the development of its artists to the international.

For nearly 20 years, the Effendi label has initiated, promoted, facilitated and propelled the career of many Quebec artists (recognized and / or emerging artists) internationally. So dozens of artists have benefited from its accompaniment. Unfortunately, for the past 4 or 5 years, with the abolition of several government programs and especially since the record has lost its share of profitability in the last 2 years, aids and money are rare to support the influence of Québec jazz artists to the majority of international markets, including: European countries, Scandinavia, the United States and especially to the new international markets with very high development potential: South American countries, Mexico and presumably Asian countries: Japan, South Korea and China.

Québec jazz artists have enormous potential, and most of all, they are of international caliber. Find dates are ok ... but finding the financial means, to promote them and to succeed in making them turn, is a perpetual challenge.

The accompaniment of Québec jazz artists to the international scene is crucial today, as the Quebec and Canadian market is not really exciting for them. The territory is vast, there are few festivals, few jazz clubs, few medium and large rooms interested, road transport is long, air transport is very expensive and wages are ridiculously low.

So when you look closely at the situation of each stage of an artist's development both at the national level (outside Québec) and internationally, strategies are often flouted:

The REALITY - today, after 20 years of Effendi's efforts to encourage governments to implement permanent development tools, to foreign markets (mentioned here), little has been done to encourage, support and respond to the needs of producers, agents and / or artists related to Quebec jazz.

So here's a call to all!

Let's open the doors...

To all those who are sensitive to this cause, please express your opinions and write your comments.

If you want to show any interest of support and / or help (of all kinds), do not hesitate to contact me at Effendi.

Alain - C: 514-692-4950 / E: effendi@me.com

Alain Bédard / Effendi Agency

Le JAZZLAB ORCHESTRA  will be in concert at:

January  11th - Theâtre de la Ville, Longueuil - 8pm

February 18th - Palais Montcalm, RIDEAU

The new album "Quintessence" will be available at Januray 11th in stores and on the Web

New project to come...

François Bourassa's Quartet CD - FND150 - Number 9

won 2 OPUS Awards on February 3, 2019 - One in the jazz album category of the year and one in the best jazz concert of the year category.

Congratulations! BRAVO! Great!

Effendi since its creation, reached the figure of 182 nominations and with nearly 80 awards won on 151 CDs presented. at various competitions such as: OPUS, FELIX, JUNO, ECMA, CHOC Jazzman, NJA, Victories of Music, Django d'Or, Academy of Jazz etc.

Effendi will participe at differents conventions in 2019

RIDEAU, JAZZ IAM, PACIFIC CONTACT, JAZZAHEAD, JAMMIN' JUAN, PAL, JAZZ ACCROSS BORDER.

Did you know you can find our content in a mobile app?

Québec Jazz Mobile, available on mobile phones and Ipad, lets you discover Québec jazz. Powered by Effendi Records, it offers you the opportunity to explore the projects of artists they represent. Pragmatic, the application makes it possible to listen and buy in addition to give you the opportunity to share your favorites on social networks. Test your knowledge with the music quiz.

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/quebec-jazz-mobile/id975710929?l=fr

The famous saxophonist from Effendi Records launches its new CD. The album was named Synchrony - Cités. To celebrate the release of this new album the musician invites us to a launch – concert at the Dièse Onze Jazz Club on Thursday , March 26 at 21h .

Dièse Onze
4115A Rue Saint-Denis, Montréal, QC H2W 2M7

The program of Jazz en Rafale 2017 finally unveiled:

March 18 - 8h pm - Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal

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March 23 - 8h pm - Rafael Zaldivar – Afro-Cuban Revival

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March 23 - 9h30 pm - François Bourassa Quartet

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March 24 - 8h pm - Alain Bédard – Auguste Quartet

 
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March 24  -  9h30 pm - Félix Stussi et Les Malcommodes invite

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March 25  - 8h pm - Reis-Demuth-Wiltgen trio

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 March 25  - 9h30 pm - Pierre de Bethmann / Yannick Rieu quartet

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 You will be in Germany between 20 and 25 April ? We do! We will participate at the “jazzahead 2016”. Come see us if you are there. We will be at booth 6c09 . Bye the way, Emie R Roussel Trio will give a showcase concert " Moments " on 23 April at 20:45.

Effendi Records will soon relocate his offices. We organize a big moving sale . We have selected some titles that we offer at 5$ only.

The sale includes physical copies only.  

*The proposed amount does not include taxes and delivery charges.

 Here's the selected items for the sale. You can also recognized them with this symbol :

  Today, is the “international jazz day” !

Clic here to learn more about this unesco initiative.

Here a Message from Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESO, on the occasion of the International Jazz Day 2015 :

A special concert will be held this evening for the international jazz day.

Clic here to find more information about the show.

The concert of the group " JAGG " winner of the "Concours de la Relève 2014” is also an opportunity to celebrate the launch of their first album. The group will open for " Rufus Reid" that will evolve in the company of " Jazzlab Orchestra" March 21 at L' Astral . 

Here's a teaser : the cover

 Our sincere congratulations to the " Emie Roussel Trio" which won the Opus award from the « Conseil Québécois de la Musique » in the category « Jazz Album of the Year ». 

Meanwhile Yves Leveille is awarded the same prize in the category " Show of the Year " for his show " Essence des bois" .

Yesterday afternoon we had a business dinner planned with Michel Morissette . A few minutes before his arrival we received good news about him. So it was a business lunch and a celebration.

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 It is with great joy and pride that we inform you that Emie R. Roussel has been nominated Révélation Jazz Radio-Canada 2014-15.

Awarded to artists who stand out by their innovations, their originality and the quality of their artistic proposition. During a year, the Révélations artists benefit a personalized support and a showcase offered by Radio-Canada.

The trio’s first release, Temps Inégal, which came out in September, 2010, rose to third place in the top 5 jazz albums of the year named by sortiesJAZZnights.com. The second album for the Emie R Roussel trio, Transit, includes Nicolas Bédard on bass, Dominic Cloutier on drums, along with Quatuor St-Germain and percussionist Julie Quimper. This album also won the 3rd place of jazz CDs of the year by sortiesJAZZnights.com in 2013.

A must to catch on stage and on CD, Emie R.Roussel Trio hits the spot every time!

Video link to the piece La timbale et la fourmi (featured on Transit)

Emie R. Roussel in an interview with Stanley Péan (in French)


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Les Malcommodes will be on tour this srping. They will share their dynamic freshness, sensitive spontaneity, surprising originality and contagious humour in Switzerland, France and Belgium.

Piano: Félix Stüssi
Double-bass: Daniel Lessard
Drums: Pierre Tanguay

APRIL
24 – Jazz Club, Turin, IT
25 – Musikcontainer Uster, CH
26 – Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
30 – Les Halles de l'ïle, Genève, CH

MAY
3 – Le Mandala, Toulouse, FR
6 – L'improviste, Paris, FR
7 – L'improviste, Paris, FR
8 – Jazz Station, Bruxelles, BE
9 – Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, CH
10 – Biohof im Fondli, Dietikon, CH  

On February 26th at the famed Cabaret du Lion d'or, wil be the concert and CD launch of Essences des bois by the Yves Léveillé septet. Here is how the composer describes the genesis of this one of a kind esthetic offering:

"With this project, I wanted to get out of known musical paths by putting woodwinds at the forefront and avoiding the habitual use of brass which often predominates in jazz. I wanted energetic and tonic woodwinds without neglectinc their sultry nature. It is with a set of seven musicians coming from the jazz world (Yves Leveille Quartet) and classical world that we took up the challenge. The supple interpretation of the jazzmen combined with the refinement of the musicians accustomed to classical and contemporary repertoire gave a surprising result, all in delicacy. I am very proud of the outcome of this artistic endeavour."

Essences des bois CD launch and concert 
February 26th at 8pm @ Lion d'or
1676, rue Ontario Est, Montréal 

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On Tome III Errances, Vincent Gagnon’s third album is a mélange of live jazz and romance that inspires impressionistic lyrical landscapes to be painted on the imagination.

Recorded during three concerts at Palais Montcalm in 2013, Errrances immerses listeners in a universe molded by poetry and inspired by nocturnal scenes of St-Petersburg, Asuncion, Lausanne and Quebec City. This is music that is mind-expanding and exciting, rich in emotion and improvisation, yet uncomplicated in composition.

This jazz rendez-vous will begin by a conference given by radio MC Stanley Péan whose words will be musically illustrated by the Vincent Gagnon Quartet. The captivating radio host of the daily "Quand le jazz est là" wil speak about different jazz styles.

CD launch and Concert February 13th at 8pm
L'Anglicane 31, rue Wolfe, Vieux-Lévis

Tickets online, by phone 418-838-6000 and in person

Catch Vincent Gagnon on tour:

"Chercher l'équilibre" figures in Le Devoir's top 5 jazz album released in 2014

"The québécois album: Cherchez l'équilibre, of Trio Jérôme Beaulieu, on Effendi. Following the same footsteps as Esbjörn Svensson or Ethan Iverson, Jérôme Beaulieu directs a trio that inspires itself from the actual pop-rock culture. Good rhythmic foundation, beautiful melodic impulses, strong harmonic progressions: Beaulieu and his band hit hard. And well."

Guillaume Bourgault-Côté, Le Devoir, 27 décembre 2013

Buy Trio Jérôme Beaulieu's Chercher l'équilibre

Laureate of the Jazz en rafale competition and winner at the 2011 Grand Prix du Festi-jazz de Rimouski, the trio offers contemporary jazz with a playful pop flair. Sampling plays a big part in enhancing this diversified musical repertoire by exposing the audience to the accessible and rhythmic side of jazz, both with standards and with original music composed by pianist Jérôme Beaulieu.

From April 23rd to 28th in Bremen (Germany) was another edition of Jazz Ahead, arguably the most important international jazz trade show.

Sortiesjazznights.com picked 5 "must have" jazz album of 2013. John Roney's Jazzlab World Colours was one of them.

"This huge project that was presented at L'OFF Jazz 2013 was rendered with much creativity and in its purest essence. Around  pianist and composer John Roney, JazzLab and somes guests: Lévy Bourbonnais - harmonica, Joseph Khoury - percussions, this important new release marks the 10th year of JazzLab with intelligence, rigor and know-how."  sortiesjazznights

Buy World Colours

"Bolduc’s Random Masters project is rooted in rhythmic sophistication and power. [...] Random Masters demonstrates some exceptionally agile music making from everyone involved. [...] Bolduc’s writing and arranging continually deliver rich, arresting details apart from the metric randomness."

Peter Hum, (Ottawa Citizen, this review November 4th 2013, his top 2013 jazz albums December 23rd 2013)

Buy Random Masters

Effendi is happy to collaborate with Naxos for its distribution.This partnership, which will begin at the end of January, will open the doors to worldwide distribution (including the USA and Europe). A very good news!

Great news for Sonia Johnson, Annie Poulain and Charles Biddle Jr. their acclaimed album Triades is in nomination at the Juno awards for the VOCAL JAZZ ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

Triades, is the trio created by the words, the melody and the performer. Triades is the inspiring and tender energy of three women and three men crazy about jazz. Triades is a trio of singers and a trio of instrumentalists, which intermingle, unite and dialogue by creating poetic frescos intended to highlight the instrumental melodies of some of the best composers of jazz in Quebec.

The Juno awards will be presented in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada during the weekend of 29-30 March 2014.

We are proud of the men and women who contributed to Triades' creation and we wish them good luck!

Congratulations to Marie-Josée Simard, François Bourassa and Yves Léveillé who received a Prix Opus for the JAZZ CONCERT OF THE YEAR for their show « en trois couleurs ». Prizes were awarded recently during the Gala des prix Opus presented by the Conseil Québécois de la Musique.

Congratulations also to all the musicians who contribute to our vibrant musical scene!

Effendi will be at the Bourse RIDEAU in Québec city between February 16th to the 20th. Comme and meet/greet us at our stand! (Stand A3)

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Effendi encourages young musicians to register in the 9th edition of Jazz en Rafale young talent contest.

Effendi is proud to sponsor Jazz en Rafale, a contest that contributes to the development of local talent.

Resgister here (application deadline: February 3rd)

Jazz en Rafale: March 20th to 29th in Montréal