Jazz à Porquerolles
Jazz à Porquerolles is celebrated since 2002 smaller Jazz - Festival on the island of Porquerolles in Hyeres . The drummer Aldo Romano and the saxophonist Archie Shepp have been its patron and honorary president since they helped found it, and as such are often represented in the program. Around 10,000 visitors come every year.
Structures
It takes place annually on five consecutive days in the first half of July , in the same month as the two other festivals on the Côte d'Azur Jazz à Juan and the Nice Jazz Festival . The concerts take place in the evening on the site of the former Fort Sainte Agathe, a hill and lookout point in the middle of the Port-Cros Natural Park . The concert guests get a guaranteed crossing on the ferry for a corresponding surcharge with the entrance ticket , so that you can stay overnight in Hyères.
The concert program is framed by a competition for young talent, workshops with performing musicians, musical hands-on activities for children and adults, a music film program and other participation offers.
Other jazz concerts in the course of the year, most of which take place in the St. Denis theater building in Hyères, are also organized by the same organizational team under the established name Jazz à Porquerolles . In 2019, for example, Reggie Washington with Rainbow Shadow as well as the Maciej Obara Quartet and the Adrien Brandeis Quintet were among them.
The Union
Jazz à Porquerolles is also the name of an "Association loi 1901", a non-profit organization that organizes Jazz à Porquerolles , as well as the jazz competition Le Tremplin Jazz à Porquerolles , Les saisons Jazz au Théâtre Denis (on behalf of Hyères town hall) and Le festival Jazz à tout Var (for the Conseil Général du Var).
The festival is headed artistically by Samuel Thiebaut and organizationally by Laure Le Vavasseur, head of administration, represented by the director and guitarist Frank Cassenti as the president of the festival association. The event poster has been designed by graphic artist Jacek Wozniak since 2004. Thiebaut cooperates with a number of radio and television broadcasters, whose concert recordings ensure a multiplication of the audience. These include Arte , France 3 Provence-Alpes, Mezzo Classic & Jazz TV, TV Sud, Radio Active 100 FM, Radio Grenouille Marseille 88 FM and the French online trade magazine Culture Jazz.
Artistic orientation
The selection of musicians invited is international and has a wide range of styles including blues and fado . North and South America as well as Africa and Southern Europe are represented in many ways.
The 2014 edition featured on stage: Mehliana: featuring Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana , the septet Los Gojats, the trio Bernard Lubat , Michel Portal & Hamid Drake , an Archie Shepp All Stars In The Mood Special, the duo Christophe Leloil & Nicolas Pacini, the quartet Mônica Passos , Aldo Romano , Baptiste Trotignon & Thomas Bramerie , David Krakauer's Ancestral Groove , the duo Ana Carla Maza & Vincent Ségal.
The 2015 festival presented the Jacky Terrasson Trio, the singer Sibongile Mbambo (South Africa / France), the rapper-scat singer André Minvielle , the Takt Quartet (winner combo of the Tremplin Jazz à Porquerolles 2015), the trio Aldo Romano, Thomas Bramerie & Nguyên Lê , the Riccardo Del Fra Quintet “My Chet My Song”, the Olivier Chaussade Quintet, the Archie Shepp Quintet featuring Mike Ladd , the Brazilian singer Dom La Nena , the Fado singer António Zambujo .
At the 15th Porquerolles Jazz Festival 2016, Omar Sosa & Jacques Schwarz-Bart performed "Créole Spirits", the Avishai Cohen Quartet, the Olivier Lalauze Sextet, Otis Taylor , Archie Shepp, Aldo Romano & Friends "Spécial 15 ans", Yamandu Costa solo and the Hamilton de Holanda Trio.
The 2018 festival offered the Hermeto Pascoal 6tet from Brazil, the Aldo Romano Trio, the trio of Harold López-Nussa from Cuba, with a duo cast by Yamandu Costa & Vincent Peirani , a soirée with Archie Shepp, the Israeli-French Yonathan Avishai Trio as well the jazz combo BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness) from Soweto in South Africa.
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ Anne Elizabeth Philibert: Jazz à Porquerolles en danger faute de financement , Culturebox France, February 2, 2013
- ↑ Autour du festival ( Memento of February 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed February 5, 2017
- ↑ see website
- ↑ Toute l'équipe de Jazz à Porquerolles ( Memento of February 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Concert program of Jazz à Porquerolles 2014 ( Memento of February 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed February 5, 2017
- ↑ Concert program of Jazz à Porquerolles 2015 ( Memento of February 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed February 5, 2017
- ↑ Concert program Jazz à Porquerolles 2016 ( Memento from February 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed February 5, 2017
- ↑ Jazz à Porquerolles 2018 , accessed on January 1, 2019.