Striggered b, do not waste another minute ! The Blue Note Jazz Festival has not yet opened its doors that some dates are already full. To begin with, those of Norah Jones, in opening this Tuesday night, and then the Monday, November 21, for two concerts in the mythical Salle Pleyel. More a chair is free since a few days already, to see and hear the daughter of the great sitar player indian Ravi Shankar. His first album “Come away with me” in 2002 it had sold over 20 million copies, becoming the biggest cardboard commercial of all time in the catalogue of Blue Note. And his new album, which marks his return to jazz, is worth the detour.
On Wednesday 16 November, the same holds true for the young singer who had caught the eye of Prince, Kandace Springs. All the seats are already reserved in the room where will take place the concert : the Jazz Club Etoile. Ditto for the soulman French Ben L’oncle Soul this weekend, Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November, with his album of covers of Frank Sinatra. The two dates are sold out, in this very room, the top of the Champs-Elysées.
“Some of our best discoveries”
” The Blue Note French does a great job in organizing this festival and signing with some of our best discoveries, such as Gregory Porter, boasts the big boss, on the phone from Los Angeles. Don was, for almost five years at the head of the record label Blue Note.
This producer of folk and rock is among the most sides in the world – he has worked with Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, Johnny, produced all the albums of the Rolling Stones for the past twenty years – has been chosen to wake up this great house who was dozing a little. “I feel a great responsibility to maintain the high level of quality to this catalogue born there over seventy years, but I’m not nostalgic,” he said. I feel also in a period of great change in the music is under the obligation to open our catalogue to new forms, experimental research.”
“All that swing has its place on a Blue Note”
” The master-word of this festival is the eclectic, confirms Nicolas Pflug, artistic director of the label Blue Note for over twenty years. In the programming first. By mixing big heads posters, which actually fill up large rooms very quickly, with artists sometimes less known to the general public.”
The choice of the rooms also reflected this state of mind : of Pleyel at the Olympia, passing by the Cicada, the New Morning or the Flow. With rates that start at 25 euros, but can quickly fly away. “One of the founders of the label in 1937, Alfred Lion had this sentence resumes Nicolas Pflug. All that swing has its place on Blue Note. We are working with thirty artists are sometimes very different from each other. A third of them, including Marcus Miller, Gregory Porter or even the pianist Yaron Herman, has signed on to our French subsidiary.”
That is reassuring. Concerts of the highest caliber are still available in the framework of the festival. Thus, the 16 November, Terrace Martin, multi instrumentalist, and producer for Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, or even Stevie Wonder, will be the New Morning. On 17 November, it is the turn of very electro Aufgang to invest the barge of Flow, tied to the left bank of the Seine, at the foot of the Alexandre III bridge. On 19 November, return to the Salle Pleyel with the saxophonist Charles Lloyd. And in the first part of Mare Nostrum, as a sign of collaboration of the more fortuitous with the accordionist French Richard Galliano, pianist swede Jan Lundgren and trumpet player Italian Paolo Fresu.
walking through some of the most prestigious halls of the capital do not stop there. A Pleyel on November 20 : Trombone Shorty, and its explosive mixture of jazz, funk and hip-hop, would you agree to riffs rock. First part : Jacob Collier, little genius 22 years ago, a protégé of Quincy Jones, which was released in the summer “In my room” a first album bluffing created in his room. Has the Cicada the next day, 21 November : the pianist Robert Glasper and trumpeter Christian Scott. And on 22 November, closing at Olympia, the seven-time winner of a Grammy in three categories, jazz, pop and R&B), in no less than four decades : Al Jarreau, 76 years, for a tribute evening to Duke Ellington.
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