Banlieues Bleues

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Banlieues Bleues is a jazz festival that takes place every year from March to mid-April in the Seine-Saint-Denis department near Paris .

History of the festival

The Banlieues Bleues Festival was founded in 1984, initially traded as Jazz en Aulnoye and was then organized under a new name by various municipalities in the department. So occurred u. a. Max Roach and Dizzy Gillespie as a duo in March 1989 at the Maison de la Culture de la Seine in Bobigny . In 1990 Eddy Louiss put together a 70-piece Multicolor Feeling Fanfare Orchestra.

Since 2006 the festival has been held in the La Dynamo venue in Pantin for forms of jazz and improvised music; further events take place in 15 communes of the department such as Aubervilliers , Gonesse , Le Blanc-Mesnil , Saint-Ouen , Stains or Tremblay-en-France . Numerous live recordings of the festival were released on DVD and audio carrier. The long-time organizer Jacques Pornon handed over the reins to Xavier Lemettre in 2001.

The festival is financed by the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis, the cantons, the Conseil régional of the Île de France region and the Ministry of Culture. Banlieues Bleues , which has now developed into one of the largest music festivals in the greater Paris area, takes place in 2012 with performances by artists such as McCoy Tyner , Joe Lovano , Nicole Mitchell , François Corneloup , Bruno Chevillon , Bernard Lubat , Marc Ribot , Romano / Sclavis / Texier , Bojan Z and Nguyên Lê . The Art Ensemble of Chicago celebrates its 35th anniversary there. The Orchester National de Jazz also plays under the direction of Claude Barthélemy .

Artists who performed at the Banlieues Bleues Festival include Rabih Abou-Khalil , Noël Akchoté , Jean-Jacques Avenel , Han Bennink , Tim Berne , Peter Brötzmann , Avery Brooks , Taylor Ho Bynum , Jacques Coursil , Vincent Courtois , Benoît Delbecq , Dave Douglas , Paul Dunmall , Andy Emler , Roberto Fonseca , Bill Frisell , Fred Frith , Alfred Harth , Mary Halvorson , Yaron Herman , Susie Ibarra , Soweto Kinch , Stéphane Kochoyan , Peter Kowald , The Last Poets , Yusef Lateef , Jean-Marie Machado , Hugh Masekela , Christophe Marguet , Joe McPhee , David Murray , Michel Petrucciani , Michel Portal , Ernst Reijseger , Yves Robert , Archie Shepp , Esperanza Spalding , Cecil Taylor , Henry Threadgill , Claude Tchamitchian , Assif Tsahar , Fred Van Hove , Vienna Art Orchestra and David S. Ware .

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  1. ↑ a b Banlieues Bleues at Europe Jazz Network ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europejazz.net
  2. ↑ Eddy Louiss, Multicolor Feeling Fanfare - Multicolor Feeling Fanfare - Live at Discogs
  3. ^ Jean-Paul Labourdette: Paris nuit
  4. ^ Citizen Jazz
  5. ↑ Banlieues Bleues Programm 2012 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seine-saint-denis.fr
  6. ↑ France.com ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.france.com
  7. ↑ Overview at Citizen Jazz