{"id":820216,"date":"2026-07-23T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:36:11","slug":"breaking-jazz-icon-oliver-jones-dead-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820216\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Jazz icon Oliver Jones dead at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal jazz icon Oliver Jones has died at 91.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019s family and label, Justin Time Records, made the announcement on social media Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn exceptional musician, a gentle soul and a friend who touched so many lives, his kindness and immense talent left a lasting mark on so many people and generations, and his memory will continue to inspire us,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be profoundly missed. We kindly ask that his family\u2019s privacy be respected as they grieve this tremendous loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Little Burgundy legend received numerous honours in his illustrious career. He was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in 1993 and awarded the Governor General\u2019s Performing Arts Award in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>This article is being updated.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0706-city-col-brownstein_271195958.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz piano great Oliver Jones in Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal Monday July 4, 2022. Jones will be talking jazz at an art exhibit at the Cathedral Wednesday.\" class=\"wp-image-100251440\"  \/>Jazz piano great Oliver Jones in Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal in July 2022. John Mahoney \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0723-jones-2.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver Jones plays a piano\" class=\"wp-image-100251453\"  \/>Oliver Jones at Union United Church in Montreal in June 2015. Vincenzo D&#8217;Alto \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0723-jones-3.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver Jones plays piano in a park\" class=\"wp-image-100251454\"  \/>Jazz legend Oliver Jones plays a piano in Ste-Cun\u00e9gonde Park in the Sud-Ouest district of Montreal in July 2013. Allen McInnis \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal jazz icon Oliver Jones has died at 91. Jones\u2019s family and label, Justin Time Records, made the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-820216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}