Marseille Jazz des cinq continents

It’s the sound of New Orleans with a Marseille accent. These seven friends and multi-instrumentalists offer an orchestration in the purest carnival style, entirely devoted to celebration and joy. A banjo rhythm section, a double bass, a washboard, and a trombone/alto saxophone/clarinet/trumpet section, all of which is enhanced by Lise’s voice. Marie Carnage breathes energy and color into this music steeped in history. Between a small brass band and a jazz band, you will embark on an exotic journey to the rhythm of calypso and swaying rhythms.

 

Marie Carnage will be at the Palais Longchamp on July 25, 26 and 27 and will open JazzClub 222 on July 24 at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory.

 

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KAY! Letters to a missing poet,
Lamine Diagne & Matthieu Verdeil
Creation

Why the poet Claude MacKay comes back to us today after having disappeared from the Marseilles radar for a long time, nobody can answer. Yet his call has been heard and the power of his poetry, asleep or voluntarily omitted, has crossed time to come and resonate in the ears and heads of two artists from Marseille. Matthieu Verdeil is a filmmaker and has documented his work from the archives of the time. Lamine Diagne is a musician and storyteller, moved by the poetic turmoil, he is also convinced of the need to transmit the poetry of the Jamaican traveler. Together, they start to convince and gather around them. That’s when Marseille Jazz des cinq continents joined the procession. What could be more normal. This creation is perfectly in line with the Festival. Claude MacKay comes from the time of the arrival of Jazz in Marseille, he carries the immemorial modernity and he smiles at life in the middle of tumult. MacKay dives into Marseille and extracts a poetic material made of the friction of humanities and bodies, the elegance of the underworld, the smile and the conviction.

Lamine Diagne is a storyteller, he knows the art of letting history express itself through him. His musical creation is impregnated with literature and rhythms. Accompanied by his musicians, he joins the movement of the world that Matthieu Verdeil projects, without concession to the eyes of all. The Sucrière Theater has also invited itself to the celebration by imposing itself as the venue for this new show. This is a first for Marseille Jazz of the Five Continents and a great moment for everyone.

 

Delegated production: Prodig’Art
Co production : Compagnie l’Enelle, A7 Production, La Maison du Chant.
Partners: Marseille Jazz des 5 Continents, Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, Ville de Martigues, Conservatoire Pablo Picasso de Martigues, Label Maison Bleue, Héliotropismes, l’AMI, le Cri du Port
Institutional partners: Ministère de la Culture/Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Paca, Région Sud, Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Ville de Marseille, Ambassade des Etats-Unis, Spedidam
Sponsor: Fondation Stin Akri, Fondation pour la mémoire de l’esclavage

 

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Irmandade Ensemble  
Clélya Abraham, Sintia Piccin, Ana Karina Sebastião, Ananda Brandão
Creation

The opening of the Marseille Jazz Festival of the Five Continents must be a strong signal of our artistic line and our commitment. The 2023 edition will open with this new creation, specially set up by Jazz à Vienne in partnership with the French Institute, the French Consulate in São Paulo, Sesc São Paulo, Sesc Jazz and Scubidu Music and with the support of the CNM. The international dimension of the project and the link of artistic friendship with Jazz à Vienne convinced us. This project expresses the meeting of two of the most innovative and productive current scenes, represented by four young musicians on the rise: on the one hand, pianist and singer Clélya Abraham and drummer Ananda Brandão, rising stars of French jazz and connoisseurs of Caribbean music; on the other hand, saxophonist Sintia Piccin and bassist and singer Ana Karina Sebastião, figures from the inexhaustible breeding ground of musica popular brasileira.

All in all, a supergroup of young musicians whose collaboration promises to be explosive!

 

 

An evening in partnership with the City Hall of the 15-16 arrondissements

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Building bridges between jazz and the influence of Sufism, the Tunisian vocalist and master of the oud Dhafer Youssef returns with a repertoire of extraordinary beauty.

For twenty years Dhafer Youssef has been building bridges between cultures, between the East and the West. Composer, master of the oud and bewitching vocalist, he brings together the influence of Sufism, whose heritage he carries, and jazz – from Scandinavian jazz to American jazz – but also Indian music and electric instruments. His new album Street of Minarets, the ninth of his career, is the result of five years of work and tells of his travels around the world in search of new sounds. Dhafer Youssef sings differently. After the ordeal of an operation for a throat polyp, he has reworked his high voice with effects that find their echoes in his childhood. As a return to the sound of megaphones that the young Dhafer, from a lineage of muezzins, used for the call to prayer from the top of the minaret of his village of Teboulba, 25 kilometers from Monastir. A Tunisian kid who arrived in Vienna with an oud and a backpack thirty years ago, without any source of income, multiplying odd jobs to survive but inhabited by a dream, a quest, a mission. That of sharing his music, the key to his deliverance, the source of his fulfillment and the field of his accomplishment. Mission accomplished

 

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Born in 1988 in Fukuoka, Japan, Koki Nakano is already a reference for this new generation of multi-genre artists, breaking down the walls between music, whether classical, jazz, pop or contemporary. This graduate of the Toho Gakuen School of Music and the Tokyo University of the Arts will specialize in composition while developing his passion for choreography by working with different dancers, Mariko Kakizaki, Amala Dianor and Damien Jalet.

He came to France for a series of concerts with his group Gas Law, which he created with his brother Daiki Tsuneta and the French violinist Robin Dupuy, and finally settled there, where he met Laurent Bizot, director of the sublime and astonishing label No Format.

From this adventure will come three albums: Lift (2016) in duo with the cellist Vincent Segal, Pre-Choreographed (2020) and finally Oceanic Feeling (2022). At the same time he will expand his musical field, composing the music for Brise-Lames by Damien Jalet, a contemporary creation for the Paris Opera (2020) or the music for a fashion show by Issey Miyake.

Koki Nakano will be on stage at the Festival des cinq continents on July 12 to give us the keys to his latest album, Oceanic Feeling. His oceanic feelings, which explore with intensity the fragile balance of our existence, will undoubtedly mark us with the red iron of life. Not the one that marks us with pain, but the one that makes us think with poetry to make us happier.

 

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Oxmo Puccino is a traveler who crosses musical territories with simplicity and elegance. He frequented the Jazz world, very early with the Jazzbastards, he returned to urban music and then found himself in adventures with Ibrahim Maalouf and on Doni Doni with Erik Truffaz. He also knows very well the atmosphere of the Jazz Festivals. Yaron Herman is a jazz pianist. His career is made on the edge of excellence. He too is nourished by creation, he too crosses the borders of styles and in addition he is passionate about teaching. It is a happy coincidence that brings them together for an unprecedented concert, the opportunity for an exceptional encounter between the rapper-poet and one of the best jazz pianists of his generation. The two artists will once again “synchronize” their arts in this inspiring courtyard of the Vieille Charité. Listening to the melodic lines proposed, the rapper will revisit his repertoire to propose something absolutely new. From L’Enfant Seul to Le Droit de Chanter and 365 Jours, the man with the honeyed voice will take us to a “sacred temporality” close to trance, to the rhythm of the suites improvised by the Steinway of Yaron Herman. It is a true dialogue between two artists in permanent search of freedom and creativity.

 

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The darling of the Jazz world, Brad Mehldau returns to Marseilles for a concert event that only he knows the secret of.

This unclassifiable and indomitable pianist has always and voluntarily blurred the tracks of his crazy race of orientation and artistic disorientation. Each of his concerts, each of his albums, are invitations to magical and unique wanderings. His playground? His sharp mind, his technicality, his curiosity, his knowledge of harmonies and his respect for creators. “When I hear Beethoven’s string quartets or John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”, I have no idea where they came up with that” (New York Times, 1999).

It must be said that his swirling and avowed love for the great artists, be it jazz, rock, folk or classical music, is now at the center of most of his creations. To name but a few, Cole Porter, Paul Simon, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, The Beatles are “his” All-Stars. They are there, like angels or demons, by touch or in subtle references. In his revisited standards, his genius sometimes reveals notes or harmonies that are totally lost in the original version. The revelation is one of his strengths!

His improvisations are chiseled and thought out to the nearest note and silence. This perfectionist knew how to merge in a chaos, unstructured and structured, the freedom of his playing with his incredible technicality. Brad is definitely a lover of music, wherever it comes from. He breathes them, he respects them.

This year again, Brad Melhdau’s trio concert is sure to be full of surprises. He who puts improvisation at the heart of his repertoires will still surprise us and the Marseilles public will be there.

 

Photo credit © Michael Wilson