The new energy label “Blue Note” on stage in Paris – FranceTV info

Pianists Robert Glasper, Jason Moran , vocalist Gregory Porter, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire , guitarist Lionel Loueke … all these musicians represent the lifeblood of Blue Note, “re-energized” in 2003 with the phenomenal success of the first disc singer Norah Jones. They will
two Parisian scenes (Olympia and Gaiety lyrical) from November 18 to 23.

historical and modern approach

“With the arrival of Don Was his head in 2012, Blue Note experienced a second wind, “said Nicolas Pflug, head of Blue Note France since 1997. This American producer has worked with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones or Johnny Halliday on his latest album” Stay alive, “released 17 November . “He has a vision to historical times, for example by signing Wayne Shorter, more modern producing albums like those of José James or Robert Glasper, which are impregnated with the jazz world today, inspired urban and electronic “music, adds Nicolas Pflug.

Golden Age

Blue Note has become famous in the years 50/60, age of gold, with a small team of Alfred Lion, co-founder and sort of artistic director, Francis Wolff, co-founder and photographer, Rudy Van Gelder, sound engineer and Red Miles, whose graphic design sleeves became cult. In four of them have shaped a sound and aesthetic that is found in the book “Blue Note, the best jazz today” (Textual) recently published and provides an overview of the iconic label pockets .

“At the time Blue Note produced more Donald Byrd, Jimmy Smith and Lou Donaldson, as well as Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Joe Henderson. He was rooted in the hard-bop, but was also quite a pioneer in the free “, recalls Nicolas Pflug. A mind that the label tried to perpetuate. “What we try to do, and it is perhaps this spirit Blue Note is to present the jazz both quality and cutting-edge,” he says.

Concerts in Paris

In Paris, Blue Note will offer both the close of the tradition of gospel and blues Gregory Porter jazz, jazz-fusion Marcus Miller, the duo Aufgang or during an evening dedicated to electronic music.