Jazz and Soul in Little Burgundy

Cafe Gotsoul, located at nineteen seventy Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, is a listening café that blends a specialty coffee house with a high-fidelity audio experience. Founded in two thousand twenty-one by DJ Jojo Flores and his brother Toddy…

At seventeen twenty-six Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, the streetscape now holds modern businesses, but this specific stretch of the neighborhood was once the center of a different world. It was here that the local jazz scene found its footing…

The portrait of Daisy Peterson Sweeney stretches across the wall at seventeen ninety-one Rue Saint-Jacques, capturing her with a smile while leaning over piano keys. This image, painted in twenty eighteen by muralist Kevin Ledo, honors a…

The Oscar Peterson mural, titled Jazz Born Here, features the legendary jazz pianist captured in shades of blue, purple, and black. Painted by artist Gene Pendon, the artwork displays Peterson at different stages of his life, with piano…

Oscar Peterson Park sits on Rue Chatham in the heart of Little Burgundy, just a few blocks from the street where the legendary jazz pianist spent his childhood. The park is distinguished by its varied recreational space, which includes…

The Hommage à Oliver Jones mural covers a wall of the Habitations Albert housing complex on Lionel Groulx Avenue. This ninety-five square meter artwork features the jazz pianist and composer in a tribute commissioned to mark his eightieth…

Parc Charlevoix / Rufus-Rockhead is a quiet green space in Little Burgundy named for the man who established Montreal’s most legendary jazz club. Rufus Nathaniel Rockhead, a Jamaican-born First World War veteran, opened Rockhead's Paradise…

Union United Church, located on Delisle Street, began in nineteen oh seven when a group of Black railway porters and their wives met to establish a place where they could worship freely. These founders faced racial exclusion at other local…