Jazz Club 222

 

Le Jazz Club 222 – A co-production of Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet – a school of INSEAMM & Marseille Jazz des cinq continents

Trumpeter, composer, arranger, band leader, Michael Leonhart is a complete artist. He has toured the world’s greatest stages alongside Steely Dan and Elvis Costello. Based in New York City in the midst of the creative fusion of the local music scene, he founded his Michael Leonhart Orchestra, which was joined by some of the top names in jazz and hip hop. It is especially for this vibrant expression of current events at the crossroads of jazz and urban music that we wanted to meet the artist in Marseille. He chose to meet the public before his big concert in Longchamp, in a more intimate form at the ephemeral Jazzclub. We are very proud of this meeting open to musicians for the Jam and to amateurs for the kiff!

 

Le Jazz Club 222 – A co-production of Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet – a school of INSEAMM & Marseille Jazz des cinq continents

Photo credit © DR

Finalist of the ReZZo Jazz à Vienne, ElliAViR is one of the new jazz sensations of the year 2022. At the head of this quintet, Lou Rivaille, undeniable leader with a crystalline voice and remarkable compositions. His acolytes are just as flamboyant: Rémi Flambard on trumpet, Christophe Waldner on piano, Cyril Billot on double bass and Maxime Mary on drums.
ElliAViR’s music will tell us the stories of their sonic journeys, blending their world music and jazz influences.
In turn, they transport us to the land of Eastern music and Celtic songs. And the captain, Lou Rivaille, tells us fabulous stories between the real and the unreal.

Signed by Kyudo records, which already hosts the beautiful careers of Leon Phal, Gauthier Toux, Ishkero and Yessaï Karapetian, the album of the Quintet should be released in September 2023.
Recorded in January, thanks to the support of ReZZo Jazz, in the sublime QDS studio (Anthony Joseph, Imany, Woodkid, etc.), they have been seen, read and heard this year on FIP, Jazz Magazine and their numerous partners such as the Paris Jazz Club, the Cosmojazz Festival, etc.
Obviously, these good stars have all been good advice and on the evening of July 26 the Festival des cinq continents will welcome a new sensation and one day you will be able to say, we were there!

 

Le Jazz Club 222 – A co-production of Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet – a school of INSEAMM & Marseille Jazz des cinq continents

Photo credit © Ghislain Suc

With a sound signature, the flute, quite original in the world of electric jazz, the five Parisians of Ishkero form a group with communicative energy, made for the live.

In the new generation of artists of the French scene adept of an epic sound, Ishkero is about to carve out a place of choice. Winner of the RezzoFocal springboard of the Jazz à Vienne festival in 2021 and then of the Jazz Migration 2022/2023, the group is releasing this year a first full-length entitled “Shama”, after two EPs. These five Parisian musicians are not yet in their thirties, but make no mistake, this is not a “new band”. Since their meeting at the dawn of their 18 years during the music workshop of the Children of Jazz in Barcelonnette, they cumulate nearly ten years of common history, multiplying the residences and the scenes of the capital and in regions. Their solid band sound, in which jazz is the essential underlying element, increasingly favors a rock energy. On this new French scene of instrumental fusion, Ishkero stands out by an original signature, the flute. Adrien Dutertre on flute, Tao Ehrlich on drums, Victor Gasq on electric guitar, Arnaud Forestier on Fender Rhodes and Antoine Vidal on electric bass, all co-leaders, make up Ishkero: their sustained and communicative energy makes them above all a band to be seen live.

Concert proposed within the framework of Jazz Migration, a support program for emerging jazz and improvised music musicians led by AJC, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the BNP Paribas Foundation, the SACEM, the ADAMI, the SPEDIDAM, the CNM, the SPPF, and the Institut Français.

 

Le Jazz Club 222 – A co-production of Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet – a school of INSEAMM & Marseille Jazz des cinq continents

Photo credit ©  Marie Rouge