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TAKE ONE - We’re different!

Local See ker The We s t

E n d Community paper

DO YOU know your LOCAL Musicians ?

Vo l u m e 2 , I s s u e 1 8 , S e p t 1 6 , 2 0 1 1

Montreal’s own renowned piano man never ceases to amaze I love jazz. I was 17 when my then-girlfriend and I would go to Café Mojo, this unbelievable little no-nonsense jazz club on Parc where you sat on cushions, ate cornbread with honey and drank various teas in a prematurely smoke-free environment while owner Sayyd Abdul AlKhabyyr and his sons played jazz like nobody’s business. A drummer, I would enviously play my Buddy Rich LPs and dream that I had my own big band. I discovered Miles Davis in my twenties and Kind of Blue became a theme song of sorts. I was officially a jazz junkie.

First Anniversary Issue Remembering Elmhurst Dairy: Ice Cream Dreams Montreal actress Anne Bedian

So, it’s no wonder that as I sat back against the pillows on Oliver Jones’s couch as I interviewed him in his West End Montreal apartment, I was floating on cloud nine. While he isn’t anything special to himself – “I’m hardly a star, I’m just a working musician,” he tells me matter-of-factly – he is certainly jazz royalty to me. And after meeting him when I did an interview for a Briefly Bram column several years ago, we stayed in touch, thus enabling me to ask if he would gift me with his image and story on this first anniversary cover. I’m listening to his most recent CD, Second Time Around, as I write this… very much in the groove and feeling very, very mellow, man.

Seen our new Property Seeker section yet? Story and photos - Bram D. Eisenthal

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