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DU 15 AU 25 NOVEMBRE - LIMOGES © DR la capitale créative reconnue par l’Unesco villecreative.limoges.fr LE MOT DE PHILIPPE PAULIAT-DEFAYE LE MOT DE PHILIPPE PAULIAT-DEFAYE Adjoint au maire chargé de la culture Novembre est là et avec lui "Éclats d’Email Jazz Édition". Les premiers frimas de l’année accueillent l’une des manifestations les plus "chaudes" du calendrier culturel limougeaud. Automne après automne depuis maintenant 13 ans, "Éclats d’Email Jazz Édition" surprend, enchante, enthousiasme toutes celles et tous ceux pour qui le Jazz est, plus qu’une simple musique, une véritable façon d’être et d’appréhender le monde et la vie. Si ce festival - conçu par Jean-Michel Leygonie et son équipe - connaît une résonnance si particulière à Limoges, c’est bien parce que notre ville peut s’enorgueillir d’une véritable histoire dans ce genre musical qui se renouvelle et sans cesse s’adapte et reflète les mutations du monde et de nos sociétés. Avec "Hot Vienne", qui s’achève dans un mois, Limoges montre qu’elle a su accueillir et aimer la musique de Jazz depuis ses origines et s’inscrire ainsi dans la modernité mais aussi dans une forme d’universalité et de fraternité. Avec Eclats d’Email Jazz Edition, la belle aventure musicale continue. Le programme qui est proposé cette année en témoigne et j’invite toutes celles et ceux qui aiment le jazz et, au-delà, toutes celles et tous ceux qui ne le connaissent pas à participer, à écouter, à applaudir ou à siffler, bref à vibrer en chœur et en cœur avec "Éclats d’Email Jazz Edition". 2 1 Conception : Direction de la communication - Ville de Limoges - Ville de la communication : Direction Conception LE MOT DE LE MOT DE DIDIER LEYRIS JEAN-MICHEL LEYGONIE président de l’association du Festival Directeur Artistique du Festival LE MOT DE DIDIER LEYRIS Je ne suis pas superstitieux, ca porte Du 15 au 25 novembre, nous allons fêter malheur!... C’est à André Jeanson que 100 ans de Jazz et de musiques improvisées, l’on attribue ce bon mot d’esprit. Je le 100 ans d’évolution de nos sociétés, de trouve toujours d’actualité. Je ne suis pas nos continents, 100 ans de brassage et de LE MOT DE JEAN-MICHEL LEYGONIE superstitieux et pourtant c’est la 13eme rencontres en tous sens et qui font de ce du Festival Eclats d’Email Jazz Édition ! courant musical un bouillonnement perpétuel 13 ans de belles aventures humaines, de création, d’inventivité, d’optimisme, une de découvertes, de redécouvertes, de émotion sans cesse renouvelée. Encore de passions pour le Jazz au sens le plus l’émotion. La recette pour y être sensible : large qui soit, 13 ans aussi d’opiniâtreté, deux oreilles bien ouvertes, aucun à priori d’équilibrisme budgétaire, de sueur et et accepter les découvertes. La découverte de grandes joies ! Chaque fois ! 2018 est de l’autre, la découverte d’un monde, d’un une année Jazz pour Limoges, cette ville univers, d’une histoire personnelle, collective, que nous aimons. Vous êtes tous là, autour de l’évolution d’une musique qui n’arrête de nous, public passionné, partenaires pas d’être pétrie, malaxée pour n’en être institutionnels, partenaires privés, et que plus vivante et passionnante. Dans cette c’est pour vous et par vous que nous édition vous rencontrerez, entre autres, Ron relançons et relancerons chaque année Carter, Don Bryant, deux légendes du Jazz la machine à bonheur qu’est ce festival ! et de la Soul Music, Cassius Lambert jeune Cette année, encore, nous plongeons bassiste compositeur de 22 ans qui vient parmi les piliers de cette musique et de Suède et qui nous révèle un monde dans des Découvertes avec un grand D. absolument envoutant, la voix sensuelle Nous vivrons ensemble ces émotions et unique de Mélanie de Biasio, le géant en écoutant de merveilleuses voix et du saxophone ténor David Murray qui n’a de grands instruments. Je vous laisse eu de cesse d’explorer le jazz et la Great découvrir les rencontres que vous allez Black Music en invitant ici la voix de Saul faire : Envolez-vous sur les notes bleues Williams, figure engagée et inclassable de de Ron, regardez les étoiles sous les la scène new-yorkaise pour une musique ciels de solstice en vibrant aux accords intense et hors des genres, entre jazz de Gaël et, du matin très tôt à tard le abrasif et spoken word habité. Mais aussi soir, pendant 11 jours, rêvez avec nos le Jazz au Soleil levant avec Les Pascals, artistes et surtout, félicitez l’équipe du orchestre japonais joyeusement fou et hors festival et tous les bénévoles ! norme, la rencontre avec ‘‘Mona’’ d’Elodie Pasquier, ou comment une œuvre musicale peut avoir autant de résonance dans la traduction d’une âme, d’une personnalité aussi profonde. 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    NEW YORK @ NIGHT Oliver Lake took on the challenging instrumentation Queens’ historic Flushing Town Hall hosted of four alto saxophones plus Pheeroan akLaff’s drums drummer/composer Dafnis Prieto’s Si o Si (“Yes or as part of the AACM-New York fall concert series at Yes”) Quintet (Oct. 8th), an A-team aggregate (multi- the Community Church of New York (Nov. 7th). Lake instrumentalist Peter Apfelbaum, pianist Manuel is, of course, a founding member of the landmark Valera and bassist Johannes Weidenmueller) that World Saxophone Quartet (WSQ), which is voiced like epitomizes the can-do attitude implied by its name. a classic string quartet—at least most of the time— Raised in Santa Clara, Cuba, equally facile with street while his Alto Madness employed four similar voices. beats as he is with conservatory techniques, Prieto And while WSQ tends to be programmatic (Duke can—and does—do it all. “Si o Si”, the set’s opener, Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, R&B, politics) here he seemed unfolded a catchy folk melody in stacked phrases set to run though a history of what he had learned over in 7/4, then shifted between accents of twos and threes, close to 40 years composing for and working with like with round-robin soloing. Prieto’s solo here and voices, from layered harmonies to full-on sound wall elsewhere was an excursus in polyrhythmic to drones and bops. The saxophonists (Darius Jones, independence, each of his limbs sounding like a Bruce Williams and Anthony Ware) played off-mic, separate percussionist. “Clavateo”, a labyrinthine Tue, Dec 2 MARIA MANOUSAKI QUARTET 8:30PM which made their voices meld all the more.