ANTIBALAS Saturday June 11th — 4:30 PM to 5:20 PM Scène de l’Observatoire Antibalas has been spreading the good word of Afrobeat for more than 20 years around the world. So much so that they have become its best ambassadors. 10 on stage, horns galore, a bass that holds the tune, choirs, percussion that drives […]
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Memorable Respect to Aretha “The Aretha Franklin tribute evening set the Marcel-Hélie hall on fire on the evening of May 27th. The four singers, accompanied by an orchestra of about ten musicians from the Antibalas group, made the walls vibrate and dance the audience. Robin McKelle’s performance on ‘Think’ cast Aretha’s shadow in the room. […]
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“Great concert by a trio that works wonderfully” Avishai Cohen Trio was on Saturday, May 28th for the end of the Festival Jazz sous les Pommiers 2022. With Avishai Cohen (cb), Echin Shirinov (p), Roni Kaspi (dms) “And what a close! While we had lost the Israeli double bassist a bit when he started to […]
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Saturday, June 25th from 9:35 pm to 11:05 pm, La Défense Jazz Festival welcomes Herbie Hancock as headliner for the 2022 edition!! A true icon of modern music, Herbie Hancock has transcended boundaries and genres while maintaining his unmistakable voice. After more than sixty years of career and fourteen Grammy Awards, including album of […]
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In 2021, after five author albums, Céu released her first cover album, Um Gosto de Sol. This is the first album in which Céu is only an interpreter, giving voice to a dozen songs written by different authors, including João Gilberto (Bim Bom), Francis Albert (Feelings), Sade (Paradise), Jimi Hendrix ( May This Be Love), […]
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Avishai Cohen’s new album is out May 13th! To celebrate this release, he gives us an appointment at La Cigale on Thursday, May 17, 2022, a concert in Trio EVENT! “In the end it’s all about connection. The connection with your inner self, the connection between the musicians on stage, and, of course, the connection […]
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It is not a first or a second, but an eighth Grammy Award that Christian McBride received at the beginning of this month of April during the 64th Grammy Awards ceremony in the category “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album”. Artist with multiple albums, it is today For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver released in September 2020, […]
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Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, England, Netherlands, Switzerland… This is Antibalas’ tour schedule for over a month. Don’t miss them, they are coming and will crush everything in their path. Details of the tour: here
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An eminent American jazz ensemble, a past master in the art of revisiting the most sumptuous repertoires, the SFJAZZ Collective presents new compositions inspired by the social problems that have shaken the planet over the past year. The SF JAZZ Collective was formed in 2004, at the instigation of SFJAZZ, the organizing structure of the […]
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This year again, the International Jazz Day takes place on the web. On Saturday, April 30th, 2022, find a great concert to follow live, with Joey Alexander, Herbie Hancock, Gregory Porter or even Lizz Wright on the menu… Joey Alexander Born in Bali, Indonesia, Joey Alexander has been performing professionally since 2013 when he was […]
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Released on February 11, DLO3 makes us discover their “feel good music” again with this album Cold As Weiss. David Koperhant describes it to us in the last Jazz Magazine. “The last time we saw them, Wuhan was a Chinese megalopolis like the others and we could, without fear, sweat profusely under the projections of […]
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The album is not yet out that it is already a sensation! See you on May 13th: “This is a bewitching session from the unique Tel Aviv-born improviser and composer Oded Tzur – a performer with a tenor saxophone sound as impressionistically recognisable as Jan Garbarek’s was when he first emerged in the early 1970s. […]
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