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Sunday July 8, 2001
Entertainment Section, page D9
Toronto Star Spotlight
Toronto takes Montreal fest
       A Latin-flavoured Toronto jazz quintet led by Nick Ali has won the 2001 Montreal International Jazz Festival competition for Best Canadian Group.
       "I didn't think a Latin-jazz group would win", Ali said after it was announced yesterday that judges had picked his band - Nick Ali & CRUZAO from amongst 10 finalists.
       The group won the $5,000 bursary offered by General Motors of Canada plus a $3,000 prize from Galaxie, the CBC's continuous music network.  It also gets 50 hours in Montreal recording studio Karisma to make a disc for the Justin Tiime jazz label and an invitation to jazz festivals next year in Montreal and Rimouski, Que.

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