Jazz/Blues MICHEL DOUSSOT

JULY 17 nOx.3 A young French trio who take part in the hot new trend of mixing diverse influences of jazz: minimalism, electro inspired sounds, free, rock… For this particular group, the result is captivating pieces with ever changing nuances. With Rémi Fox (saxophone), Matthieu Naulleau (piano), Nicolas Fox (batterie). Nox tape (JazzVillage). I Le Réservoir. 16, rue de la Forge Royale, 11th. At 8pm. €5. www.reservoirclub.com

JULY 26 AND 27 Leyla McCalla Performing both blues and folk at the same time, this graceful artist sings in English and Haitian Creole, plays the cello, the banjo, and the guitar. A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey (JazzVillage). I Duc des Lombards. 42, rue des Lombards, 1st. Barrière Enghien Jazz Festival. At 7:30pm and 9:30pm. €30. www.ducdeslombards.com UNTIL JULY 13 the grass or sitting under a canopy protecting a Barrière Enghien Jazz Festival large stage. With Macha Gharibian, Richard Bona, AUGUST 1ST TO 24 SEPTEMBER Enghien-les-Bains is a charming village endowed Jean-Marie Machado, Bumcello, Magic Malik… Festival Pianissimo with a lake and a spa created in the XIXth century, I Sunday and Saturday at 4pm. Garden fee: €3 of which the casino will hold concerts concerts and €6. Free concerts. www.parisjazzfestival.fr of a festival featuring this year notably the brilliant drummer Manu Katché (the 12th) and the legendary UNTIL AUGUST 3 bassist Stanley Clarke (the 13th). All Stars Festival IThéâtre du Casino d’Enghien. The famous New Morning club, where Prince 3, avenue de Ceinture à Enghien-les-Bains, 95. played to a small group of people when he came July 12 at 8pm and 8:45pm. July 13 at 9pm. by Paris, aligns jazz stars throughout the month From €20. www.enghien-jazz-festival.com as if in a parade. Eclecticism and quality are of the essence: Pharoah Sanders, Lizz Wright, Ed UNTIL JULY 29 Motta, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Steve Coleman, Marc Nous n'irons pas à New York Ribot, Abdullah Ibrahim, Mike Stern & Bill Evans, Festival Roy Ayers, John Abercrombie…What a billing! This elegant supper club, the Duc des Lombards, I New Morning. 7-9 rue des Petites Ecuries, 10th. is featuring artists whose careers are tied to New At 8:30pm. www.newmorning.com York. With Daniel Freedman, The New Orleans Swanp Donkeys, Con Brio, Makaya McCraven, UNTIL AUGUST 18 Mark Turner, Shakura Saida, Huriel Herman, Jon American Jazz Festiv’halles Manuel Rocheman. Boutellier, Leyla McCalla, Saul Rubin… A little club in the Halles district that has, in spite The Sunside club is a place where you can listen I Duc des Lombards. 42, rue des Lombards, 1th. of it all, two rooms (one on the ground floor and to artists from close up, the ideal configuration At 7:30pm and 9:30pm. the other in the basement), the Sunset, plays for enjoying musicians who practice the noble From €30. www.ducdeslombards.com an important part in the Parisian jazz scene. It’s art of jazz. For almost two months, it’s pianists and www.nipany.com dedicating one of its summer music festivals to who hold the place of honor here. Of very different musicians who work in America. This is the only ages and styles, many of them French, they are UNTIL JULY 31 thing they have in common as their styles are all very worth checking out: Éric Legnini, René Paris Jazz Festival varied: Tom Harrell, Craig Taborn, Jason Marsalis, Urtreger, Pierre de Bethman, Giovanni Mirabassi, Jazz takes on a great variety of nuances during Toshiko Akiyoshi, Yellowjackets, Omer Avital, Yaron Herman, Olivier Hutman, Yonathan Avishai, this open-air festival set in a green, floral envi- Michele Hendricks…The concerts of this festival Manuel Rocheman… ronment. You can listen to music while lying on will also be given at the Petit Journal Montparnasse I Sunside. 60, rue des Lombards, 1st. At 9pm. supper club. From €20 to €30. www.sunset-sunside.com I Sunset and Sunside. 60, rue des Lombards, 1st. At 9pm. €20 to €30. www.sunset-sunside.com AUGUST 31 TO SEPTEMBER 11 Petit Journal Montparnasse. Festival Jazz à La Villette 13, rue du Commandant Mouchotte, 14th. It’s without a doubt the most important jazz www.petitjournalmontparnasse.com festival in Paris due to the richness of it’s pro- gramming. All styles are represented. It’s simple: . N I JULY 16 each and every concert is a must! One after S A

R Chris Combette et Ralph Lavital another with David Murray & Saul Williams, R A S

These two skilled chord “pluckers” perform Ernest Ranglin, ONJ, Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, E D

U various Caribbean style music at the Baiser Salé, Chucho Valdés, Gogo Penguin, Erik Truffaz & A L C

- a club where spicy jazz is served on a daily basis. Rokia Traoré, Jacky Terrasson, Seun Kuti, Tigran,

N st A I Baiser Salé. 58, rue des Lombards, 1 . Nils Petter Molvaer, The Herbaliser, McCoy E J

which include the Philharmonie de Paris and the Grande Halle. INTERVIEW I Parc de La Villette. 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, 19th. At 5pm and 8pm. From €8 to €35. www.jazzalavillette.com THE SOFT AFRO-LATIN JAZZ AUGUST 31 OF RICHARD BONA Ernest Ranglin Richard Bona spent his childhood in Cameroun, trying his luck in Europe, The immense Jamaican guitarist who played on notably Paris and then later, moving to New York where he played a countless number of reggae records, notably with George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, and Michael Brecker. during the Ska period, finds himself tonight with the best of the diaspora of African music with Bassist and singer, he developed his proper style, still subtle whom he has worked throughout the course of and elegant, without forgetting his African origins. In company with the his long career: the Senegalese Cheikh Lô (chant), group Mandekan Cubano, he makes the connection the British Courtney Pine (saxophone) et Alex between African and Cuban music in his very own Latin jazz way. Wilson (claviers), le Nigerian Tony Allen (batterie) et the Swedish-American Ira Coleman (basse). As opening act: Sonny Troupé Quartet. I Philharmonie de Paris. Cité de la Musique. Your new project is called Richard Bona. 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, 19th. At 8pm. Heritage… From €20 to €25. www.philharmoniedeparis.fr It evokes the five centuries of Cuban music history. Very often, SEPTEMBER 4 AND 5 we have a rather vague vision of Chick Corea what this realm is. It’s a mix of The famous pianist is back with the vibraphone native inputs as well as Spanish, player Gary Burton with whom he has carried African, Chinese – a sort of melt- on a cordial and artistic relationship for the past ing pot. The very way that all this four decades (Grande halle, on the 4th). The next music is played reminds us of day, it’s the bass player Avishai Cohen who will this history: the piano, the violin, be joining him. The latter was revealed when or the trumpet are European, the playing for several years with the formation of maracas American Indian, the Corea. With drummer Marcus Gilmore, they drums African… I felt a powerful form a trio that promises to make some great need to tell this story. sparks (Grande salle de la Philharmonie, the 5th). I Parc de La Villette. 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, The Afro-Cuban style was very 19th. September 4 at 5pm. Septembre 5 at 8pm. popular during your childhood From €20 to €45. www.jazzalavillette.com in Africa. Do you still enjoy it? We listened to nothing but it at .

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in Europe. It is therefore inconceivable to miss opinion, all music is a universal © his passage in Paris… Avec Geri Allen (piano), link, capable of bringing together people Do you still live in New York? Craig Taborn (piano), Gerald Cannon (contrebasse), who otherwise do not necessarily have Yes, I even opened a club in Brooklyn, on Francisco Mela (batterie). anything in common. It’s important to 52nd street: Le Bonafide, where we play I Philharmonie de Paris. Grande salle. emphasize that it was during a time period all sorts of music. 221, avenue Jean-Jaurès, 19th. At 5pm. when we were trying to split up. Before From €20 to €45. www.jazzalavillette.com the Afro-Cuban project, I brought together What are the words that come to mind Indian, Brazilian, and Country musicians. when we say to you New York and Paris? The next one will be with Flamenco, still For New York, it’s “challenge”. One never doing it my way, with joy. I can’t stand has a minute to relax, to rest on one’s lau- monotony. I am incapable of playing the rels. It’s good, but…Fortunately I get to same repertory over and over. travel and relax a bit! For Paris, I would say “graceful”, although the people who Who is the musician who influenced you live there are also quite challenged! That the most? been said, generally speaking, it’s more It’s Jaco Pastorius who led me to play the easygoing there. bass. I was a kid but already a musician. As soon as I heard him, it was as if I had I July 24. Parc floral de Paris. been struck by lightening. I immediately Esplanade Saint-Louis, bois de removed two chords from my guitar and there Vincennes, 12th. From noon. Garden fee: it was! As for singing, I’ve bathed in it since €3 and €6. Free concerts. Heritage my birth. At home, I sang all the time, to the (QWest/Membran). . T T

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