Nice jazz festival

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The Nice Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in Nice on the Côte d'Azur on five days in July.

history

The festival was held for the first time from February 22nd to 28th, 1948 and took place during Carnival in the casino, the opera and the Negresco . The Idiot's Guide to Jazz classified it as "the first jazz festival of international importance". At the first event, Louis Armstrong and his All Stars were the headliners. Suzy Delair sang C'est si bon for the first time on stage in a revue that ended the evening with Louis Armstrong . There were also Yves Montand , Stéphane Grappelli , Claude Luter and Django Reinhardt on. It was organized by Hugues Panassié and Charles Delaunay from the Hot Club de France , with Panassié preferring traditional jazz and Delaunay bebop .

Aside from this beginning, there was a jazz festival in Nice again in 1971/72, when the Jazz à Juan festival was temporarily relocated from Antibes. From 1974 onwards, George Wein organized an annual Grande parade du Jazz in the Cimiez Arenas, in the olive groves between Roman ruins. This took place until 1993. The actual festival started in 1994.

Over the years, artists such as Lionel Hampton , Dizzy Gillespie , Ray Charles , Ella Fitzgerald , Helen Humes , Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis have performed regularly at this festival. After 1994 there was a change in focus towards more world music and pop. But the festival's new organizer, Vivian Sicnasi, revived a blatant mix of traditional and modern sounds with an international line-up. It remained "one of the largest annual events on the Riviera".

The festival originally took place in the district of Cimiez , which has a Roman amphitheater . The event was performed on several separate stages, on which the groups performed simultaneously, every evening for eight days in July.

In 2011, after a decline in the number of participants, the previously privately organized festival became a public task at the instigation of Mayor Christian Estrosi . At the same time it was moved from Cimiez to the more centrally located Place Masséna ; events have now also taken place in the Théâtre de Verdure . It was reported that around 30,000 spectators attended the five-day festival in 2011. The 2012 festival from July 8th to 12th featured Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater , Erykah Badu , Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings , Gregory Porter and Jimi Brown Experience as artists. There is also an off festival in the wider city area.

In 2016 the festival was canceled due to the terrorist attack in Nice .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Lankaster on the 1948 Festival, Part 2, Keep Swinging
  2. ^ Alan Axelrod: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jazz . Penguin, 1999, ISBN 978-0-02-862731-1 , pp. 23 ( books.google.com ).
  3. ^ John Shepherd: Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production. Volume II . A&C Black, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8264-6321-0 , pp. 281 ( books.google.com ).
  4. ^ Colin Larkin : The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 4. Lincoln, Abe - Primettes . Guinness Publ., 1995, ISBN 978-1-56159-176-3 , pp.  3034 ( books.google.com ).
  5. ↑ George Lankaster on the festival, part 1, Keep Swinging
  6. ↑ Stuart Nicholson : Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz . Da Capo Press, 1994, ISBN 0-306-80642-8 , pp.  213 ( books.google.de ).
  7. ↑ Jessie Carney Smith: Notable Black American Women . VNR AG, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8103-9177-2 , p. 310 ( books.google.com ).
  8. ↑ George Cole: The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991 . University of Michigan Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-472-11501-3 , pp. 407 ( books.google.com ).
  9. ↑ Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Cheryl A. Pientka: France For Dummies . John Wiley & Sons, 2007, ISBN 978-0-470-08581-3 , pp. 45-46 ( books.google.com ).
  10. ↑ Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince: Frommer's Provence & the Riviera . Wiley, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-24192-9 , pp. 26 ( books.google.com ).
  11. ↑ Ashley Kahn France’s Nice Jazz Festival: Intimacy, connection and a relaxed energy . JazzTimes August 14, 2014
  12. ↑ Jazz festival and Rihanna concert in Nice canceled Neue Zürcher Zeitung July 15, 2016

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