Ysaura Merino

© Paul Bourdrel

Laurent Cugny

© Noé Cugny

Laurent Cugny Tentet

© Noé Cugny

ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT

LAURENT CUGNY TENTET

When the crème de la crème of French jazz comes together on stage!

Pianist, conductor, arranger, author… it is difficult to sum up Laurent Cugny’s long and prestigious career in a few words. Director of the Orchestre National de Jazz from 1994 to 1997, he played and recorded with Gil Evans, directed the Lumière big band for twenty years, but also the Gil Evans Paris Workshop from 2014 to 2018, and is the author of numerous books on jazz.

A great master of conducting large ensembles, he is now bringing together a new orchestra, an all-star group of French jazz musicians, to play a new repertoire. His compositions will be mixed with those of Joni Mitchell, Lennon-McCartney, Michel Jonasz, Josef Zawinul, Miles Davis or Duke Ellington, in an unusual instrumentation including three electric keyboards and two drums. And as usual with Laurent Cugny, a large part is left to improvisation and the initiative of the musicians, for a musical explosion that will be remembered for a long time.

The tentet, which has just recorded the album ‘Zeitgeist’, will give the festival audience the first glimpse of this new opus. The promise of an exciting and memorable closing night of the festival!

Laurent Cugny: keyboards, arrangements / Pierre de Bethmann: electric piano Fender Rhodes / Laurent Coulondre: Hammond B3 organ / Manu Codjia: guitar / Jérôme Regard: double bass / Stéphane Huchard, Antoine Paganotti: drums / Sylvain Gontard: trumpet / Martin Guerpin: soprano saxophone / Stéphane Guillaume: bass clarinet

1st part: YSAURA MERINO

Attention talent!

The trumpet player Ysaura Merino is part of this young generation of musicians to follow closely. An accomplished sidewoman, she is regularly solicited by the big bands in Lyon (The Very Big Experimental Toubifri Orchestra, Bigre!, The Amazing Keystone Big Band…). But it is now as a leader that she presents herself.

Her quintet, formed in 2019, includes the virtuoso guitarist Loan Buathier, the eclectic pianist Pierre-Louis Varnier and the talented Baptiste Archimbaud on double bass and Zacchary Leblond on drums.

The group will present a repertoire of standards and original compositions with influences from Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Scofield and Ambrose Akinmusire.

Ysaura Merino: trumpet / Loan Buathier: guitar / Pierre-Louis Varnier: piano / Baptiste Archimbaud: double bass / Zacchary Leblond: drums

DISCOVERY CONCERT

THOMAS CURBILLON QUARTET

French song between tenderness and mischief, a delight!

At a heavenly dinner party where Sinatra, Nougaro, Salvador or Gainsbourg would be invited, the conversation would inevitably come to Thomas Curbillon, this great escogriffe who, with his first album “Place Ste Opportune”, knew how to bring together swing and French song.
Guitarist and singer, lover of American standards, it was when he discovered the texts proposed by the author Gaëlle Renard that Thomas Curbillon said to himself “Why not put them to music?
The critics responded by saying, “Indeed!” when they discovered this album, which is off the beaten track and has been praised by Jazz magazine, France Musique, Télérama, FIP and Jazz News…
A universe where tenderness, charm and humour are combined, all qualities that the guitarist and singer knows how to combine on stage, surrounded by his 5-star cast!
In the beautiful Salle des fêtes of the Mairie du 6e, the quartet will perform the songs from the album, as well as a few unreleased tracks, heralding a new opus…

Thomas Curbillon: guitar, voice / Quentin Ghomari: trumpet / Simon Chivallon: piano / Alexis Gilson: double bass

Album “Place Ste Opportune” released end of 2021 by Jazz&People

EXCEPTIONAL FESTIVAL’S OPENING CONCERT

YARON HERMAN PIANO SOLO

A master of improvisation in a majestic palace

The Israeli pianist star of the international jazz scene never ceases to surprise. After ten albums, Yaron Herman, whom the festival audience has applauded several times, is now playing solo piano with his new opus entitled “Alma”.
The soul… it is indeed to this one that the hands of the pianist with the capacity of invention out of standard, to deliver an entirely improvised album, like an interior dance opened towards unknown spaces, without limits, of a rare beauty.
“In this album, I wanted to go to the essential. Outside of any predefined concept, plan, idea, particular themes. Just put myself at the piano, close my eyes and let myself be guided by the music. To go on an inner journey. For the first time, I entered the studio with my hands free, minimal preparation” he confesses.

Be among the privileged few to sit in the majestic 18th century neoclassical courtyard of the Monnaie de Paris, in the middle of which Yaron Herman and his grand piano will be enthroned.
A unique experience and sensory journey to which you are invited, and a deep emotion that will probably never leave you.

Yaron Herman: piano

New album « Alma », released in October 2022 on naïve records.

1st CONCERT OF YARON HERMAN PIANO SOLO AT 7.30PM

EXCEPTIONAL FESTIVAL’S OPENING CONCERT

YARON HERMAN PIANO SOLO

A master of improvisation in a majestic palace

The Israeli pianist star of the international jazz scene never ceases to surprise. After ten albums, Yaron Herman, whom the festival audience has applauded several times, is now playing solo piano with his new opus entitled “Alma”.
The soul… it is indeed to this one that the hands of the pianist with the capacity of invention out of standard, to deliver an entirely improvised album, like an interior dance opened towards unknown spaces, without limits, of a rare beauty.
“In this album, I wanted to go to the essential. Outside of any predefined concept, plan, idea, particular themes. Just put myself at the piano, close my eyes and let myself be guided by the music. To go on an inner journey. For the first time, I entered the studio with my hands free, minimal preparation” he confesses.

Be among the privileged few to sit in the majestic 18th century neoclassical courtyard of the Monnaie de Paris, in the middle of which Yaron Herman and his grand piano will be enthroned.
A unique experience and sensory journey to which you are invited, and a deep emotion that will probably never leave you.

Yaron Herman: piano

New album « Alma », released in October 2022 on naïve records.

2nd CONCERT OF YARON HERMAN PIANO SOLO AT 9.30PM

ElliAViR

© Ghislain Suc

Sarah Lenka

© Hugues Anhes

Marion Rampal

© Alice Marin

Naïssam Jalal

© Seka

Natalia M. King

© Philip Du Cap

WOMEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT

SARAH LENKA INVITES MARION RAMPAL, NAÏSSAM JALAL & NATALIA M. KING

4 exceptional artists finally together on stage

The spellbinding singer-songwriter Sarah Lenka is known for her highly personal interpretations, her hoarse tone and her unsettling voice. With her previous album “Women’s legacy”, the singer chose to pay homage to the female cause by reinterpreting the songs of Afro-American slave women. Alone with their emotions, their lives, the blows, the abuse, too hard to express, they sang in resistance, letting a little life breathe. Singing, Sarah Lenka tells us, is a certain victory over abuse and silence.
In the tradition of Women’s legacy, the Mahala project brings together committed women artists from different cultures.
For this unique concert, Sarah Lenka invites the Franco-American guitarist-singer Natalia M. King, with her captivating voice between folk and blues, the enchanting Franco-Syrian flautist Naïssam Jalal and the singer Marion Rampal, best vocal artist at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique.
Each of them carries a cultural heritage, a history, and this unexpected 100% female encounter mixes an acoustic folk sound with blues rhythms and the sounds of traditions and customs.

In the Alliance Française theatre, where for 140 years people from all over the world have been sharing, these four exceptionally sensitive artists, surrounded by a guitar-bass-drums trio, will take you on a journey into the depths of intimacy. An evening of rare beauty!

Sarah Lenka: vocals / Marion Rampal: vocals / Natalia M. King: vocals / Naïssam Jalal: flute / Taofik Farah: guitar / Maurizio Conjiu: doublebass / Raphaël Chassin: drums

1st part:
ELLIAVIR

Attention talent!

Composed and arranged by singer Lou Rivaille, ElliAViR is a true musical journey with rich and dreamlike sounds. Embodied by five musicians, the compositions draw their influences from jazz, world music, Celtic song and Eastern music. In ElliAViR, the voice and the trumpet share the narration of the pieces. The two instruments intermingle, respond to each other, intertwine and together play the roles of lead voice and instrument.
Winner of the ReZZo Jazz à Vienne 2022 springboard, of which the festival is a partner, the group won 2nd prize from the jury and 1st prize from the public at the Crest Jazz festival springboard one month later. Recorded in January 2023, ElliAViR’s first album will be released this autumn. This concert will be an opportunity to discover the nuggets of this new opus and a group to watch closely!

Lou Rivaille: vocals / Rémi Flambard: trumpet / Christophe Waldner: piano / Cyril Billot: double bass / Maxime Mary: drums

NEW PROJECT

ERIK TRUFFAZ « ROLLIN’ & CLAP »

When the music of the French cinema thrills one of the most beautiful theatres

The Franco-Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz is undeniably one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation. A key figure in world jazz, his style is often compared to that of Miles Davis, and his music is driven by fusion and sound discovery.
In 2023, Erik Truffaz will release his seventeenth album in two parts, “Rollin'” in the spring and “Clap” in the fall.
For this new project, the explorer has immersed himself in the films of his life and revisits with his own unique touch some of the greatest musical pieces of the golden age of French cinema: Les tontons flingueurs, Fantomas, Le Casse, La Strada, Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, One Silver Dollar…

Anyone who has ever seen Erik Truffaz on a stage will understand that he is a black actor, with a felt hat, a long body and an aerial and cinematographic breath. By going back to his memories as a film buff, a lover and a child, he foments a tribute from jazz to the film that he illuminates and it is a feast of composers that he offers us: Nino Rota, Michel Magne, Ennio Morricone, Alain Romans at Jacques Tati’s, Philippe Sarde…

On the occasion of this concert event for the release of the album, he will play a preview of some of the tracks from “Clap”.
“Rollin’ & Clap” also marks the advent of a remarkable new quintet with his long-time sidekick, Marcello Giuliani, whose bass is acoustic, Raphaël Chassin’s old drums, Alexis Anérilles’ mined keyboards and Matthis Pascaud’s incandescent guitar.

In the sublime Italian Theatre of the Odeon, which lends itself perfectly to the project, the trumpeter and his gang will magnify these moving and recognisable melodies that have made us dream, laugh and cry. A feast of sounds and images!

Erik Truffaz: trumpet / Marcello Giuliani: bass / Alexis Anérilles: keyboards / Matthis Pascaud: guitar / Raphaël Chassin: drums

CONCERT CREATION

RHODA SCOTT & SOPHIE-VÉRONIQUE CAUCHEFER-CHOPLIN
FEAT. RONALD BAKER
« SACRED JAZZ ! »

Unprecedented dialogue between two great organists

A summit meeting between two musicians who have been delighting audiences for decades. They both play the same instrument, namely the “organ”. The Hammond B3 for Rhoda Scott, a living legend of jazz, who played regularly at the Bilboquet since 1968, the mythical jazz club in the rue Saint-Benoît, and the great organ for Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, titular of the great organ of Saint-Sulpice, one of the largest in Europe with five manuals and more than one hundred stops.

One might have thought that these two distinct worlds, between the largest church in Paris and a jazz club, had nothing in common, but that would be to misunderstand the history of our two long-time friends, their curiosity, and their respective admiration.
Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, winner of the First Prize for Improvisation at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, loves to improvise, and Rhoda Scott, a pastor’s daughter from New Jersey, grew up in the warm atmosphere of African-American churches, accompanying gospel songs on the organ from the age of eight, and revealing an exceptional musical sensitivity.
A classical liturgical artist who improvises, a jazz artist who plays in churches, and here is the adventure launched, between gospels and improvisations, for this exceptional encounter, abolishing styles to concentrate on the essential: sharing, a common denominator between a church and a jazz club. All you had to do was cross the Boulevard Saint-Germain. And to make this meeting even more special, these two great ladies invited trumpeter Ronald Baker, also well known to jazz lovers, and a long-time friend of Rhoda Scott.

A concert created and presented exclusively for the festival, during which the playing of the two organists will be filmed and broadcast live on a giant screen in front of the audience. A unique evening that promises to be memorable.

Rhoda Scott: Hammond organ / Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin: great organ / Ronald Baker: trumpet

Ariel Bart

© Ramy Moharam Fouad

Album "In Between"

Paolo Fresu trio

© Roberto Cifarelli

Album "Tempo di Chet"

35TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHET BAKER’S DEATH

PAOLO FRESU TRIO “TEMPO DI CHET”

Dream trio in an art deco jewel 

Twenty-five years ago, on May 13, one of the leading lights of West Coast cool jazz died: trumpeter Chet Baker. One of his most passionate heirs, the Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, offers a concert in homage to the depth of the music of the master of the ballad, who spent much of his last years in Europe.

Chet Baker loved Italy and Italy loved him back. Each of Paolo Fresu’s recordings always contains a wink or a glance in the direction of Baker’s playing, and this tribute album “Tempo di Chet” is one of the most beautiful proofs of that. The trumpet player with an international career of the highest order is known for his nuanced, ethereal and fascinating playing, and the way in which he revisits standards often interpreted by his “master” (notably My Funny Valentine or Everything Happens to Me) is sublime. In this exercise of great purity, Paolo Fresu is surrounded by the pianist Dino Rubino and the double bass player Marco Bardoscia, two long-time accomplices and leading figures on the Italian scene, in tune with his vision.

In the wooded amphitheatre of the Maison de l’Océan, where the proximity with the artists is highly palpable, you will take part in a dreamlike musical journey, an interlude of rare elegance.

Paolo Fresu: trumpet / Dino Rubino: piano / Marco Bardoscia: double bass

1st part: ARIEL BART TRIO

Attention talent!

At only 23 years old, Ariel Bart, an Israeli harmonica player living in New-York, turns the codes upside down and offers a unique approach to the instrument. Soloist of the “Jerusalem East & West Orchestra”, known for her collaborations with the downtown New York scene or the singer Noa, the harmonica player distinguishes herself above all by the quality of her compositions.

These qualities have not escaped the attention of the RopeaDope label, one of the flagship labels of the new US sound, home of American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott and many others, on which ‘In Between’, Ariel Bart’s dreamy debut album, was released this year.

The young musician presents an elegant instrumentarium alongside the Israeli cellist Talia Erdal and the young Russian pianist Arseny Rykov.

Ariel Bart: harmonica / Arseny Rykov: piano / Talia Erdal: cello

Album « In Between » released in 2021 on RopeaDope.

NEW RELEASE CONCERT

RICHARD GALLIANO NEW YORK TANGO TRIO

A dream trio in the heart of a heritage jewel

Virtuosity, sensitivity, freedom: the accordionist Richard Galliano is one of the great musicians of our time. For this man who has tackled a thousand repertoires, the approach to New Tango as well as to New Musette has always been obvious. They are nourished by the same ingredients: a relationship with the dance, strong melodies, precise and sophisticated harmonies, the most important thing remaining the style. In the presence of guitarist Adrien Moignard and double bassist Diego Imbert, Richard Galliano tackles this New York Tango repertoire by playing his own works and those of the great Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, who spent the first part of his life in New York, in a totally free manner.

In the large wooded amphitheatre of the Maison de l’Océan, a jewel of art deco, this concert will transport you with force and beauty between the rhythms of New York jazz and the flights of South American tango. A perfect match between music and an exceptional place.

Richard Galliano: accordion / Adrien Moignard: guitar / Diego Imbert: double bass

New album “New York Tango Trio”, released on 14 October 2022 by TCB Records/Montreux Jazz Label

First concert of RICHARD GALLIANO NEW YORK TANGO TRIO at 7pm

NEW RELEASE CONCERT

RICHARD GALLIANO NEW YORK TANGO TRIO

A dream trio in the heart of a heritage jewel

Virtuosity, sensitivity, freedom: the accordionist Richard Galliano is one of the great musicians of our time. For this man who has tackled a thousand repertoires, the approach to New Tango as well as to New Musette has always been obvious. They are nourished by the same ingredients: a relationship with the dance, strong melodies, precise and sophisticated harmonies, the most important thing remaining the style. In the presence of guitarist Adrien Moignard and double bassist Diego Imbert, Richard Galliano tackles this New York Tango repertoire by playing his own works and those of the great Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla, who spent the first part of his life in New York, in a totally free manner.

In the large wooded amphitheatre of the Maison de l’Océan, a jewel of art deco, this concert will transport you with force and beauty between the rhythms of New York jazz and the flights of South American tango. A perfect match between music and an exceptional place.

Richard Galliano: accordion / Adrien Moignard: guitar / Diego Imbert: double bass

New album “New York Tango Trio”, released on 14 October 2022 by TCB Records/Montreux Jazz Label

2nd concert of RICHARD GALLIANO NEW YORK TANGO TRIO at 9pm