Celebrating 20 Years of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal: 1980-2000

Disc 1
1	Better Not Look Down / B.B. King 6:57
2	(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man / Muddy Waters 3:06
3	I Don't Trust Nobody / Willie Dixon 5:37
4	Cancel My Check / Luther Allison 6:43
5	If Trouble Was Money / Albert Collins 9:40
6	Hey Hey Mama / Blind John Davis 4:32
7	Parchman Farm 7:10
8	O Mary Don't You Weep / Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir 5:42
9	Blue Midnite / David Grisman 4:48
10	Almost Twelve / Béla Fleck & the Flecktones 2:53
11	Uzeb Club / Uzeb 5:51
Disc 2
1	After You've Gone / Eddie Daniels 4:14
2	Time Check / Buddy Rich 3:42
3	Falling Grace / Gary Burton 6:47
4	Tritonis / Dave Brubeck Quartet 7:42
5	Alfie's Theme / Sonny Rollins 7:11
6	Spiritual / Charlie Haden 11:25
7	Angel Eyes / Joe Lovano 5:50
8	Blues for Héléne / Oliver Jones 8:36
9	Dear Old Stockholm / Terence Blanchard 13:44
10	Summertime / The Modern Jazz Quartet 5:41
Disc 3
1	They Can't Take That Away from Me / Ella Fitzgerald 4:05
2	Dream a Little Dream of Me / Diana Krall 4:24
3	Lonely Woman / Dee Dee Bridgewater 5:18
4	(I Wish I Could Shimmy Like) My Sister Kate / Madeleine Peyroux 2:42
5	I've Just Seen a Face / John Pizzarelli 6:27
6	When a Woman Loves a Man / Ranee Lee 3:55
7	Where Can I Go Without You? / Ginette Reno 5:33
8	My Baby Just Cares for Me / Holly Cole 4:54
9	Old Friends/Bookends / New York Voices 6:42
Disc 4
1	Jean-Pierre / Miles Davis 8:33
2	Preludio Para Nana / Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition 9:55
3	Chicken / Jaco Pastorius 6:32
4	Infância / Egberto Gismonti 15:37
5	Nuages/Daphné / Stéphane Grappelli 4:08
6	'Round Midnight / Didier Lockwood 7:24
7	No Strings Attached / Jean-Luc Ponty 6:06
8	Adiós Nonino / Astor Piazzolla 8:08
9	Are You Going With Me? / Pat Metheny Group 9:05

All Music Guide

Twenty years' worth of recordings made at the Montreal Jazz Festival during the '80s and '90s amounts to a decidedly mixed bag on the Montreal Jazz Festival box set. The four discs are divided thematically (sort of) into blues, vocals, traditional jazz, and non-traditional jazz (i.e., fusion). All That Jazz is the most successful of the four discs, with a nice program of fairly straight-ahead jazz numbers. The Sing, Sing, Sing disc features, you guessed it, singers, with a slant toward the pop end of the spectrum and with the somewhat puzzling inclusion of John Pizzarelli doing an instrumental reading of a Beatles tune. Different Strokes includes such non-standard fare as fusion-type material from Miles Davis and Pat Metheny, the gypsy swing of Stephane Grappelli, and nuevo tango from Astor Piazzola. Blues and Beyond is really that, blending blues performances (including a couple overly long tracks) with David Grisman and Uzeb (what they were doing at a jazz festival is anyone's guess). Like most festival programming, every effort is made to present a wide selection of talent that will appeal to a wide selection of listeners. While this approach doesn't necessarily add up to a coherent listening experience, Montreal Jazz Festival serves as a souvenir of the festival that may appeal to those who attended. Sean Westergaard