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Nice Jazz Festival 2010

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The schedule for the year’s Nice Jazz Festival has been announced and it’s the best I can remember, at least for true lovers of jazz. Check this out: Saturday 17 July : DIEGO EL CIGALA, ORNETTE COLEMAN, SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS, EARTH, WIND & FIRE, TINEKE POSTMA QUARTET Sunday 18 July : NIKKI YANOFSKY, RICHARD BONA BAND, DAVE HOLLAND & PEPE HABICHUELA FLAMENCO PROJECT, DR JOHN, GORAN BREGOVIC ET L’ORCHESTRE DES MARIAGES ET DES ENTERREMENTS, FLY “MARK TURNER / JEFF BALLARD / LARRY GRENADIER” Monday 19 July : GURRUMUL, ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE JAZZ “AROUND ROBERT WYATT” avec ERIK TRUFFAZ, DWEEZIL ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA, AL JARREAU, JULIAN LAGE Tuesday 20 July : IMELDA MAY, JIMMIE VAUGHAN, ROBERT CRAY, BUDDY GUY, JAMES HUNTER Wednesday 21 July : BELA FLECK AND EDGAR MEYER WITH ZAKIR HUSSAIN, BOJAN Z TETRABAND, THE STANLEY CLARKE BAND WITH HIROMI, HERBIE HANCOCK, ERIC LEGNINI TRIO Thursday 22 July : TIGRAN HAMASYAN – ARATTA REBIRTH QUINTET “RED HAIL”, CHICK COREA, KENNY GARRETT, CHRISTIAN McBRIDE & ROY HAYNES : THE FREEDOM BAND, FICTION PLANE, LAURENT GARNIER + GUESTS, FACING EAST : THE MUSIC OF JOHN COLTRANE BY JOSE JAMES Friday 23 July : ASAF AVIDAN & THE MOJOS, DJANGO 100, HINDI ZAHRA, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, RODRIGO Y GABRIELA, CHRIS POTTER UNDERGROUND Saturday 24 July: CLIFTON ANDERSON, ANDRE CECCARELLI – LE COQ ET LA PENDULE – HOMMAGE A CLAUDE NOUGARO, MAURANNE CHANTE NOUGARO, PATH METHENY GROUP – THE SONGBOOK TOUR AVEC LYLE MAYS, STEVE ROBDY & ANTONIO SANCHEZ- , PINK MARTINI, … Continue reading →

Nice Jazz Festival: Wednesday

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They’re not making it easy to visit the Nice Jazz Festival this year.  Gerard Druot Productions is the organizer of the festival, possibly for the last time.  Official figures are not yet in but the festival does not appear to be a resounding success. One reason for the sparse crowds we witnessed last night might be due to GDP’s cavalier and inexplicable failure to explain the most basic question: how do you get there? The Nice Jazz Festival website blithely notes two out of several public buses to the site without bothering to mention that they stop running hours before the festival’s closing notes sound around midnight. The existence of the usual free shuttle from Place Massena to the festival is apparently a closely guarded secret. The chosen few that somehow found out about it were undoubtedly pleased to avoid the daunting prospect of finding a parking space around the festival. In fact it was a lot easier than we thought to find parking since attendance was obviously far below previous years. Part of the problem is undoubtedly the weak economy but that can’t be the entire explanation. After all, U2 sold out last week even with a bottom ticket price of €87.50. Compared to that, €29 is a bargain especially since it included five acts–Lisa Ekdahl, McCoy Tyner, Jake Shimabukuro, Carla Bley and James Taylor–that are fairly well-known. Jazz is less of a draw than rock; there’s no news there. Also the Arenes de Cimiez was closed for renovation.  … Continue reading →

Nice Jazz Festival Schedule Announced

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Jazz lovers, listen up! The line-up for the Nice Jazz Festival 2009 has just been announced. You’ll be pleased to know that the Nice Jazz Festival will be concentrating on–get this!–jazz this year. It has not always been the case but the ‘return to roots’ trend that began last year will apparently continue. The festival will still be in Nice‘s Cimiez (despite certain rumblings about changing the locale because of noise complaints) and will run from July 18 to July 25. So, without further ado, here is the schedule: Saturday 18 July : Brad Mehldau Trio, Raul Midon, Joshua Redman Trio, Tracy Chapman, Alain Clark Sunday 19 July: Aldo Romano “Just Jazz”, Lucky Peterson, Nneka, Keziah Jones, Yodelice Monday 20 July: Christian Vander Quartet, Joe Bonamassa, Susan Tedeschi, B.B. King, Madeleine Peyroux Tuesday 21 July: Keith Emerson Band, Magma, Joe Jackson, Priscilla Ahn, + an artist to be announced Wednesday 22 July: McCoy Tyner Quartet with Bill Frisell, Lisa Ekdahl, Carla Bley Big Band, James Taylor, Jake Shimabukuro Thursday 23 July: The Derek Trucks Band, Maxime Le Forestier, Richard Galliano Quartet, Julien Doré, Gabriella Cilmi Friday 24 July: Melody Gardot, Raphael Saadiq, Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Youssou’N Dour, Molly Johnson Saturday 25 July: Bozilo, Sonny Rollins, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Gagnant du tremplin off, + an artist to be announced Tickets are on sale from Wednesday April 1 and prices run from €29 to €49 with a supplement of €2 for buying on site. For more information … Continue reading →