If everyone knows that desire is lasting and pleasure fleeting, “Jazz à Juan” prolongs the pleasure… for 54 years now, and the Gould pine forest is a place of memory that embraces the history of jazz. The music of the present weaves the future.
This year again, from July 11th to 20th, “Jazz à Juan” dares to take risks, defy labels, and answer the call of the future by offering a lineup that can captivate and especially gather the broadest and most demanding audience possible. More than ever, jazz continues to be enriched by the flourishing transformation of the currents that have influenced it since its inception; it is to this perpetual becoming that the oldest European jazz festival invites you once again this year.
There are those whom Juan has always loved, like Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, or George Benson, who will come to celebrate his golden anniversary with the Gould pine forest; those whom the forest discovered some years ago and loves like Nile Rodgers, Jamie Cullum, Joss Stone, Stacey Kent, Youn Sun Nah, Manu Katché, Stefano Di Battista, Eric Legnini, Richard Bona, Romane, Pierre, and Richard Manetti.
And don’t forget that, in the timeless setting of the Gould pine forest, each evening’s show is ephemeral, precious, elusive, unique; it’s for this reason that, oddly, it’s called… a live performance! Live because it’s not formatted for video, internet, or CD; live because at the dawn of each concert, no one knows (starting with the artists) what will become of this encounter.
