Norah Jones, Al Jarreau: vocal jazz featured at the Blue Note … – The Parisian

Dthem vocalists are the stars of the Blue Note Jazz Festival: Norah Jones, opening Tuesday night in an Olympia that has been sold out for the return of the singer to colors more intimate, and Al Jarreau at the closing on 22 November in a tribute to Duke Ellington.
Norah Jones blew the box office on its first disc, “Come away with me”, published in 2002 when she was only 22 years old. This drive is one of the largest sales in the history of jazz: 23 million copies sold worldwide, according to Universal Jazz.
After having ventured into a universe of pop-rock, minimalist, she finds herself in “Day Breaks”, his new album on which plays the giant of the saxophone, Wayne Shorter, darker colors jazz and acoustic. Without denying totally this pan pop of his personality, and with forays years the country and soul music.
at Olympia Tuesday night very quickly filled, she added a passage to the salle Pleyel on Monday, November 21, also sold-out.
Al Jarreau, 76 years old, is weakened by two vascular accidents to which he was subjected, in his last years. His voice, nasal and warm, elastic, is miraculously intact. As soon as his first album, “We got by” (1975), singer afro-american has imposed a style, sophistication and sensuality, between the soul music, jazz, groove and funk. Capable of modulations are exceptional, using his voice as a percussion, he will speak next Tuesday in Paris on a repertoire of songs of Duke Ellington, backed by a big band.
in Addition to these two singers, the Blue Note Festival will host a saxophonist who has marked contemporary jazz since the late sixties: Charles Lloyd, known for his style of sin ging and his ballads expressive and deep.
Trombone Shorty will also be of the party: the young Neo-Orléanais of 30 years who was able to open his music very good for rock and pop music, while preserving the tradition of the funk and brass bands dear to Crescent City, will heat it to white the salle Pleyel on Sunday with his group Orleans Avenue.
Among the other young musicians of the label Blue Note, is also included Ben L’oncle Soul, singer, tourangeau to the roots martiniquaises, between soul, dub, hip hop and reggae.
Blue Note, a famous label of a jazz open to other music of african-american, is passed under the cup-Universal in 2013 lorssque this multinational company has acquired EMI.