{"id":9,"date":"2008-04-11T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-03-31T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:35:54","slug":"nice-jazz-festival-2008-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-jazz-festival-2008-the-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Jazz Festival 2008: The Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! The Nice Jazz Festival is returning to jazz. After an increasingly pop-rock-funk program the last five or six years, the new director, Gerard Drouot is returning the festival to its jazzy roots. Here&#8217;s a preview of the 2008 Jazz Festival that runs from July 19 through July 25.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>July 19: Archie Shepp, Avishai Cohen, Rufus Wainwright, Stacey Kent<\/li>\n<li>July 20: Ibrahim Maalouf, Barbara Hendricks, The Magnus Lindgren Quartet, Hocus Pocus, George Benson.<\/li>\n<li>July 21: Sanseverino, Stefano De Battista, Diana Krall<\/li>\n<li>July 22: Maria Schneider Orchestra, Leonard Cohen, Maceo Parker<\/li>\n<li>July 23: Nigel Kennedy, Jean-Luc Ponty, Return to Forever (Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Al Di Meola, Lenny White<\/li>\n<li>July 24: Hubert-Felix Thiefaine, Paul Personne, Michel Portal, San Francisco Jazz Collective, Alain Bashung<\/li>\n<li>July 25: Garry Burton Quartet with Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow, Antonio Sanchez, Johy Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Yael Naim, AaRON<\/li>\n<li>July 26: Bonobo, Pink Martini, Craig Adams, Joan Baez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What a pleasure. OK, the tickets are a little more expensive than usual, ranging from \u20ac31 to \u20ac51 on &#8220;prestige nights&#8221; (such as the first concert by Leonard Cohen in 15 years) but this is a good thing. The last few years the concerts have been a crowded, miserable mess in which you spent more time dodging hyped-up toddlers than listening to the music.<\/p>\n<p>As in previous years, the concerts will take place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Sights\/Cimiez.html\">Arenes de Cimiez, <\/a>the verdant hill with Roman ruins in east <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Nice.htm\">Nice. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on sale now; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicejazzfestival.fr\">Nice Jazz Festival <\/a>site for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally! The Nice Jazz Festival is returning to jazz. After an increasingly pop-rock-funk program the last five or six years, the new director, Gerard Drouot is returning the festival to its jazzy roots. Here&#8217;s a preview of the 2008 Jazz Festival that runs from July 19 through July 25. July <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/nice-jazz-festival-2008-the-program\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-nice-jazz-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}