Jazz Fest lineup includes Taj Mahal, Tortoise, DOMi & JD Beck across July 4 venues
The festival continues with blues legend Taj Mahal at the Maison symphonique, post-rock pioneers Tortoise at Théâtre Maisonneuve, and the kinetic jazz fusion duo at Quartier des spectacles.
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The Festival international de jazz de Montréal continues July 4 with a lineup spanning blues, post-rock, and boundary-defying fusion.
Taj Mahal, the 84-year-old blues reformer and bridge to rock, takes the Maison symphonique stage at 7 p.m. with his Phantom Blues Band. For fans who've followed his influence across decades, the chance to hear a living legend remains rare.
At the Théâtre Maisonneuve at 9 p.m., Chicago's Tortoise — pioneers of American post-rock — defend material from their new album Touch, released last fall. The ensemble is expected to balance fresh work with tracks from their foundational early records.
At 10:30 p.m. on the Rogers stage in the Quartier des spectacles, French keyboardist DOMi and Texas drummer JD Beck bring their frenzied, borderless jazz fusion. The duo previously performed at the festival site in 2023 and is working on an album due later this summer.
