{"id":558,"date":"2019-07-18T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=558"},"modified":"2022-06-13T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:45:15","slug":"nice-jazz-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-jazz-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Jazz Festival 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-559 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NJF2019-e1563457227697.jpg\" alt=\"Nice Jazz Festival 2019\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" \/>The 51st edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/JazzFestival.html\">Nice Jazz Festival<\/a> got underway Tuesday and it was off to a good start. Unlike last year when torrential rain dampened the festivities, the weather was perfect for Nice&#8217;s most popular music festival. The saxophonist <strong>Nubya Garcia\u00a0<\/strong>began the evening at the Theatre de Verdure stage followed by the mellow sounds of the <strong>Fred Hersch Trio<\/strong>. Unfortunately the delicate sounds of the trio were somewhat drowned out by the much louder soul sounds of the Nigerian singer<strong> Jacob Banks<\/strong> at the Massena stage. <strong>A Christian McBride Situation\u00a0<\/strong>with <strong>DJ Logic\u00a0<\/strong>fared much better and brought audience to their feet with their foot-stomping rhythms. Singer <strong>Alyson Williams<\/strong> was a particular stand-out. The evening wrapped up with legendary <strong>Nile Rodgers &amp; Chic\u00a0<\/strong>who got the crowd jumping to their biggest hits: <em>Let&#8217;s Dance, Get Lucky, C&#8217;est Chic, I&#8217;ll Be There<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 51st edition of the Nice Jazz Festival got underway Tuesday and it was off to a good start. Unlike last year when torrential rain dampened the festivities, the weather was perfect for Nice&#8217;s most popular music festival. The saxophonist Nubya Garcia\u00a0began the evening at the Theatre de Verdure stage <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-jazz-festival-2019\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nice-jazz-festival","category-french-riviera-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}