{"id":697,"date":"2022-07-21T13:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2022-07-21T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T13:24:16","slug":"nice-jazz-festival-2022-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-jazz-festival-2022-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Jazz Festival 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nice Jazz Festival was hot this year in more ways than one. With record-setting nighttime temperatures that hovered around 27\u00b0C (80\u00b0F), the festival’s new free water fountains were most welcome. No more bins full of discarded plastic bottles! Even though the snack stands were turning out socca<\/em> and other local snacks, ice cream seemed the most popular choice.<\/p>\n

Hot and hotter were the artists that filled the two stages this year. As usual the stage temperature was highest on the Scene Mass\u00e9na<\/em> which featured big names with big sounds, culminating in Marcus Miller<\/a> and Iggy Pop which closed the festival.<\/p>\n

\"Marcus

Marcus Miller<\/p><\/div>\n

Although the word “jazz” was not necessarily the best description of some acts, it was exciting to be introduced to music from other traditions. Fatoumata Diawara<\/a> from Mali and the Afro-Cuban style of\u00a0 Cimafunk<\/a>\u00a0 were standouts for me.<\/p>\n

The Theatre de Verdure<\/em> stage was exclusively devoted to jazz, from traditional to modern. I loved the Caribbean-influenced style of Samy Thi\u00e9bault<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Samy

Samy Thiebault<\/p><\/div>\n

Making his first appearance in Nice was the exciting young keyboardist, Emmet Cohen<\/a>.<\/p>\n