Jazz Music
Some famous jazz musicians from Quebec are Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, Charles Biddle, Ranee Lee, Karen Young, and Alain Caron.
The Montreal International Jazz Festival has been hosted by the city since 1980 and is now the largest jazz festival in the world, attracting huge crowds of visitors each summer, half of which come from outside the country. For the rest of the year, there is an Off festival that organizes jazz shows in bars all over Montreal.
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—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
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