Jazz à la Villette 2011

‘Jazz is not Dead!’ proclaims the 2011 edition of the Villette’s jazz festival, which opens at the end of the month. This year’s program concentrates on Afro-American music, focusing on the intersection of jazz with funk, Afro beat, Ethiopian groove, rock and blues. Other surprises include a parallel cinema program at the MK2 Quai de [...] [...]

‘We Want Miles’ at the Cité de la Musique

Sixty years after his first trip to France to perform at the Salle Pleyel, fifty years after recording his masterpiece Kind of Blue (the best selling jazz record of all time), and the magnificent Sketches of Spain and forty years after the revolutionary Bitches Brew, the Musée de la Musique presents an ambitious retrospective devoted [...] [...]

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