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For its 30th birthday and faithful to its tradition, Vannes Jazz Festival welcomes international as well as local jazz artists from diverse cultural and musical horizons. Women always have a place of honour, inaugurating the festival at the Limur Gardens. 

 

Esperanza SPALDING
 

You can only be mesmerized by such a natural beauty, reflected by a voice and a game that are so perceptive, interpretive, in a word irresistible. That blooming atypical bass player, vocalist and composer, pushes creativity to the limits and manages to reach people and lift up her audience with incomparable talent.

 

Molly JOHNSON
 
Molly JOHNSON has been Interpreting and singing jazz standards for years. She has won the title of idol of an audience that goes beyond jazz limits. She places her voice naturally, without mannerism. The half-caste artist born in Canada, subtly imposes her touch to make jazz sing ideally.
Her world tour confirmed her public success.

 

Eric LE LANN quartet
 
Eric LE LANN has become a must on the French jazz stage. Deeply drawn towards experimental music, he does not forget standards that he remixes with synthetizers and percussion instruments. Considered as one of the best trumpet players in Europe, he played with the greatest names such as Al FOSTER, Archie SHEPP…

 

Didier LOCKWOOD, sponsor of the 30th Vannes Jazz Festival
 
' Suspend time to savour it better ' is his favourite maxim. Didier LOCKWOOD has been enjoying his philosophy of happiness for thirty years now, performing his improvising talents with an energy, an efficiency and an unmistakable sense of melody.
Having toured the world with different musicians more or less related to the jazz, the rock or the variety stage, he goes on spreading his happy tune with his violin.
It is in that mood that we invite you to share that escape out of time.

 

Marc DUCRET 

Through the original themes of his musics, that guitar virtuoso imposed himself as 'The' composer of American song-writers. Self-taught, his game was initially very influenced by rock and be bop. Definitely avant-garde, his sound became gradually ‘dirtier’, more aggressive and chopped, characteristic of an extremely personal language.

His talent has been recognized beyond the frontiers of the hexagon and lots of musicians look for his company.

 

Carla BLEY's Big Band

Carla Bley is one of the most highly-coloured, inventive and fanciful composers of the so-called Jazz world. Self-taught, she has always taken inspiration from her artistic and human encounters and her remarkable intuition to compose her sensual miniatures. Her very minimalist  melodies consists of a few notes in which lies the secret of her delicate music. She also has the knack for distillating a touch of mechanic humour, parody or self-mockery. The resulting mix is just Emotion.

 

BOZILO 

BOZILO is an explosive trio some will discover with that band. The trio distillates a flurry of exhilarating surprises, passing from a Latin tempo to Slav dances and the gusts of desert wind in a single movement. The public exultation and enthusiasm are perceptible in the background.

 

Archie SHEPP 

Archie Shepp is a living legend of the avant-garde free jazz and a major intellectual and artistic figure of the 20th and 21st centuries. Former alto player, he also plays soprano saxophone, piano and sings on the occasion.

He played with Cecil TAYLOR and Bill DIXON among other illustrious figures of Jazz in all its forms. His participation to the recording of Ascension by COLTRANE in 1965, a seminal album of the free jazz movement, imposed him as a foreground figure of black and universal music.

 
Harold LOPEZ NUSSA Trio
 
He is the new revelation of the Cuban jazz piano trend after Chucho VALDES and Gonzalo RUBALCABA. You will hear about him !

Music in Cuba is a family history. Generation after generation a new tune updates Cuban piano tradition.

 
Buena Vista Social Club
 
The Buena Vista Social Club encapsulates the strength and the magic of Cuban music. Drawing on the original sources of Africa, that music wonderfully mixes African rythms with its Spanish colonial heritage.
Definitely Latin-African, Buena Vista Social Club’s music not only tells Cuba history but its culture and the way of life of its people, humble and proud, economically poor but indisputably rich on the human and cultural point of view, sometimes violent but truly altruist.

 

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