Following the ongoing success of the summer festival—Saint Jazz Cap Ferrat for 5 years—Pepita Musiques & Cultures and the city have already been pioneers by creating the first regular winter jazz program on the French Riviera.
One Friday a month, —up to and including May— the Charlie Chaplin hall will transform into a very cozy jazz club.
In 2017, Pepita Musiques & Cultures will once again be at the forefront of cultural innovation as it will offer a first informal and friendly encounter between jazz and literature before the 9 PM concert.
For this event, it will rely on a local publisher, “Le Mot et le Reste” (Marseille), a recognized specialist in books on various music currents, and one of its authors, Maxime Delcourt, to discuss what “free jazz” is.
Maxime Delcourt is an independent cultural journalist, notably for Les Inrockuptibles, New Noise, Slate, Noisey, and So Foot. He is also the author of three books with Le Mot et le Reste: Free Jazz, There are years where we feel like doing nothing. 1967-1981 experimental songs, and 2Pac, Me Against The World.
Free Jazz presents, in sixty portraits, the global landscape of free jazz from 1959 to the present day, through figures such as Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Peter Brötzmann, Masayuki Takayanagi, Matana Roberts, or Kamasi Washington.
A way to revisit the emergence of free jazz, its links with the civil rights movement in the 1960s, its anchoring in Europe, its decline in the ’80s, and its renewed effervescence in recent years.
