The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal turns 46 this summer. Running June 25 to July 4, the 2026 edition will arrive with over 350 concerts (two-thirds of them free) across the Quartier des Spectacles and a constellation of indoor venues.
But this year carries extra weight. Three of jazz's foundational figures—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Tony Bennett—would each have turned 100 in 2026, and the festival is turning its attention to those milestones. Marcus Miller, who served as Davis's final musical director, leads "We Want Miles" at the Maison Symphonique; Isaiah Collier performs A Love Supreme in its entirety at Théâtre Jean-Duceppe; John Pizzarelli honours Bennett at Théâtre Maisonneuve; and in one of the more cinephile-friendly entries on the bill, the Rémi Cormier Quintet revisits Davis's 1958 soundtrack to Louis Malle's Ascenseur pour l'échafaud as a ciné-concert at Le Gesù.
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