It allows the best musicians born or living on the Côte d’Azur, but of national or international caliber, to be heard in their region.
As in previous years, it will be paired with another theme.
This year, Jazz and images: two complementary means of expression centered around improvisation and communion with the audience.
On this occasion, the Seventh Jazz Trophies of the Côte d’Azur, awarded by a jury of professionals in partnership with Radio TSF, will be presented.
The patron of these 2006 Encounters is Barre Phillips, a living legend of the 20th-century double bass, born in San Francisco in 1934. He has lived in our region since 1972 and has played with musicians as diverse as Leonard Bernstein, André Jaume, Jimmy Giuffre, Archie Shepp, Benny Golson, Coleman Hawkins, John Surman, JF Jenny-Clark, and Ornette Coleman. He met the dancer Carolyn Carlson in 1972 thanks to Michel Portal and worked with her at the Paris Opera for six years. He has over 70 records to his credit. A must-listen: his double bass duo with Dave Holland.
With the exceptional participation of:
- Eric Maria Couturier, solo cello at the Bordeaux National Orchestra, a soloist in the greatest halls in the world, from Carnegie Hall to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has been playing with the Ensemble Intercontemporain and P Boulez since 2002. His insatiable spirit of openness led him to create a bridge between improvisational music and contemporary classical music at La Gaude.
- Jean-Marc Jafet with his group Agora. The bassist, a winner of the Victoires de la Musique in the Jazz category with the trio SUD, needs no introduction. He will come with the Agora group, with which he played this year at the Nice Cimiez Festival, to perform the themes of their latest CD.
Jean-Marc Montera is a crucial link in improvised music. Since 1978, the year he participated in founding the GRIM, he has not ceased exploring everything related to randomness, both in Europe and beyond. Twenty-four records, including a duo with Barre Phillips in 1990: Naxos.
Eddy Gaulein Steff, the famous host of the Bar en Biais and the off of the Antibes Juan les Pins Festival, will conclude the musical part of the festival with his energy and communicative rhythm.
Ripo (JF Ferrandez, ripodesign.com), a visual artist known for his Jazz posters for Cedac or his 2006 exhibition on Miles Davis, “Heavy Metal Davis,” will be the portraitist, i.e., the illustrator, caricaturist, and image memory of these Encounters.
Nine free concerts at So What all week, and €10 during the gala evenings on Friday and Saturday, at the La Coupole venue.
The “Encounters” are organized by the Municipality of La Gaude and the So What Association, selected by Jazzman magazine as one of the 50 places where it feels good to live Jazz in France.
Request the program:
Jazz concert side: from November 13 to 18, the “Tenth Jazz Encounters of La Gaude”:
- Monday, November 13, at So What at 9 p.m.: Jazz standards with Tom Gilroy (sax, flute, vocals)
Tuesday, November 14, at So What at 9 p.m.: Jazz sung by women with Behia and guitarist Louis Bariohay
Wednesday, November 15, at So What at 9 p.m.: Carte Blanche Evening to Sir Ali: Hard Ensemble No. 53 by Ryoko Nuruki, and King Selewa and his Calypsonians
Thursday, November 16, at So What at 9 p.m.: Improvised Music and Images with Barre Phillips, Jean Marc Montera, and the Magic Band of Gypsys.
Friday, November 17, at La Coupole at 9 p.m.: Gala evening with So What Company and a painting created publicly by artist Ripo, then Agora (Jean-Marc Jafet). Presentation by Sir Ali.
Saturday, November 18, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the gardens of La Coupole: Free “Jazz Aperitif” with the traditional Jazz of the Azur Swing Band. Presentation of the Seventh Jazz Trophies of the Côte d’Azur.
Saturday, November 18, at So What from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.: Modern Jazz with the Quart’Têtes group.
Saturday, November 18, at 9 p.m. at La Coupole: Closing evening with Olivier Maurel Trio (winner of the 2005 Jazz Trophies), Eric Maria Couturier on solo cello, and Eddy Gaulein Steff in quintet. Presentation by Sir Ali.
Schools and colleges side
Monday, November 13, Tuesday, November 14, and Thursday, November 16, at La Coupole hall: 650 students from La Gaude schools will get introduced to Jazz with the Naja saxophone quartet and a film: “Franz and the Conductor,” awarded at the International Young Audience Film Festival in February 2006.
Thursday, November 16, at La Coupole at 3 p.m.: Jazz and education with the Big Band “100% Swing” for 120 high school students from the Baous and Saint Martin du Var colleges.
Animations side: Jazz in images
Exhibition hall of La Coupole, from November 13 to 20. An exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and photographs on Jazz with, among others, painters and visual artists Landuci, Ripo, and Robba will be alongside the works of La Gaude school students on the theme of Jazz.
Opening on Saturday, November 18, and prize-giving for the best student drawings.
Creation of a painting at La Coupole hall and creation of caricatures in public.
Free musical aperitif, offered by the Municipality of La Gaude in the gardens of La Coupole, on Saturday, November 18, at 11:30 a.m. with the Azur Swing Band, and “live” caricatures offered by Ripo. Sale of the work created during the concert on Friday, November 18, benefiting the “Ensemble avec Benoît” Association for leukaemia research.
Presentation of the Jazz Trophies of the Côte d’Azur.
Film/restaurant evening on Monday, November 20, at 8 p.m. at La Coupole hall (by reservation) with the Culture and Cinema Association around the film “Elevator to the Gallows.”
A festive joy not to be missed.
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