For the second year in a row, Philly-based neo-soul, hip-hop superstars The Roots rocked the Toronto Jazz Festival. The tent at David Pecaut Square was filled to capacity and hundreds gathered on the lawn outside to listen. They played inventive arrangements of crowd favourites like "Proceed", "Here I Come" and "You Got Me" (with guitarist Captain Kirk Douglas covering vocal duties). Human drum machine Questlove took pictures of the crowd when he wasn't wowing them with his relentless groove; keyboardist Kamal Gray took some very jazz-inspired solos, and MC Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter regularly worked the crowd into a frenzy. Given the reception The Roots received last night, it wouldn't be surprising to see the Toronto Jazz Festival make this an annual event.
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