Festival Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés
The Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés festival has been held annually in May (and early June) since 2001 in the traditional intellectual district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the surrounding area on the left bank of the Seine in Paris.
The performances take place in public places and streets as well as indoors and are partly free (such as a vocal jazz concert on the Place Saint-Germain-des-Près ). Other venues include the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés , the Théâtre National de l'Odéon and the Fnac music department store in Montparnasse , the Sunset et Sunside Jazz Club on Rue des Lombards, various institutes, cultural centers, hotels and shops . There are also exhibitions. There is also a swing ball (Grand Bal Swing) with clothes from the 1950s.
In 2013, among others, Stéphane Huchard , Biréli Lagrène (with Philip Catherine , Boulou Ferré ), Thierry Maillard , Didier Lockwood , Paolo Fresu , Manu Dibango , Édouard Ferlet , Trilok Gurtu , Mina Agossi , Paco Séry , Michel Portal (with Quatuor Ébène ) and Monty Alexander up.
There is a separate series of jazz au féminine and events for the next generation (Tremplin jeunes talents) with a competition prize. The concerts of the young talent competition are freely accessible.
Saint-Germain continues the modern jazz tradition from the time of the existentialist movement in the late 1940s and early 1950s with many exiled jazz musicians from the USA who settled in Paris.
The founders are Joël Le Roy, Frédéric Charbaut and Donatienne Hantin. Charbaut is the artistic director.