Meet this afternoon at 3 PM at the Mamac auditorium.
The most curious minds will have been satisfied by this second semester’s lecture series, “Nice, Muse and Mirror of Musical Inspiration.”
Nice, with its beauty, landscapes, and light, has been able to inspire artistic and musical creation for centuries.
Its streets, its palaces, its gardens resonate with a thousand and one sounds during traditional festivals, balls, official ceremonies, or major religious, classical, or jazz music festivals. Famous or anonymous musicians have left their marks under the arches and canopies of the city.
Jazzin’ Riviera, a History of Jazz on the Côte d’Azur by Jonathan Duclos-Arkilovitch, author, artistic director of “Victoires du Jazz”
1917/2017: for a hundred years, the Côte d’Azur has sung and danced to the rhythm of the jazz “blue notes.” A long love story that defies wars and fashion. A story inseparably linked to History. Arriving in the baggage of American sailors from World War I, jazz found, on this unique piece of the Mediterranean coast, first in its palaces, then its dance halls, beaches, and festivals, a favored, cosmopolitan, and tolerant land.
And the Côte met in jazz the music that resembled it. Modern, lively, exuberant like itself. In 2018, the City of Nice will blow out seventy candles on its famous jazz festival, the first jazz festival… in the world! Who would have thought? The love story, as we see, continues even more beautifully… And a hundred years later, hallelujah, the Riviera still swings!
Jonathan Duclos-Arkilovitch, Mediterranean by birth, historian by training, got introduced to the “blue notes” on the Côte d’Azur, working for three years for the “Nice Jazz Festival,” and published Jazzin’ Riviera in 1997, the first book on the history of jazz on the “French Riviera.”
In Paris, he became a freelance journalist and collaborated with numerous magazines (Jazzman, Le Nouvel Économiste, Mondomix…), as well as with radio (France Musique) and television (“CD’Aujourd’hui” on France 2). He is the co-founder and programmer of the late “Maison du Jazz” in Paris and a member of the Jazz Academy.
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