Jazz Concerts & Festivals

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MARDI 22 AOÛT 2017

* SHEEP TRIO (Sébastien Jeser, Lukas Rickli, Johannes Von Buttlar)
* MATTHEW SHIPP & EVAN PARKER « HOMMAGE À JOHN COLTRANE »
* MARC RIBOT'S CERAMIC DOG (Marc Ribot, Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily)


MERCREDI 23 AOÛT 2017

* EVE RISSER SOLO
* KRISTOFF K.ROLL « A L'OMBRE DES ONDES » (J-Kristoff Camps, Carole Rieussec)
* ALVIN CURRAN SOLO
* YANN GOURDON SOLO
* MILESDAVISQUINTET! (Valentin Ceccaldi, Sylvain Darrifourcq, Xavier Camarasa)
* BIC (Julien Desprez, Mette Rasmussen, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Mads Forsby)
* THE NECKS (Tony Buck, Lloyd Swanton, Chris Abrahams)


JEUDI 24 AOÛT 2017

* BILL ORCUTT SOLO
* BEAMS (Alvin Curran & les participants du stage dirigé par Alvin Curran)
* ISABELLE DUTHOIT & HILD SOFIE TAFJORD
* SPILL (Magda Mayas, Tony Buck)
* INCERTUM PRINCIPIUM (Edward Perraud, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Aymeric Avice, Benjamin Dousteyssier)
* OREN AMBARCHI & WILL GUTHRIE


VENDREDI 25 AOÛT 2017

* LAURA CANNELL SOLO
* JASON KAHN & NORBERT MÖSLANG
* OREN AMBARCHI SOLO
* ONCEIM JOUE JOHN TILBURY (John Tilbury, Frédéric Blondy, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Félicie Bazelaire, Sébastien Beliah, Patricia Bosshard, Cyprien Busolini, Giani Caserotto, Xavier Charles, Pierre Cussac, Jean Daufresne, Bertrand Denzler, Vianney Desplantes, Benjamin Dousteyssier, Jean Dousteyssier, Benjamin Duboc, Yoann Durant, Rémi Durupt, Elodie Gaudet, Antonin Gerbal, Jean-Brice Godet, Louis Laurain, Julien Loutelier, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Frédéric Marty, Anaïs Moreau, Stéphane Rives, Arnaud Rivière, Joris Rühl, Diemo Schwarz, Alvise Sinivia, Deborah Walker)
* MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA (Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum)
* THE TURBINE! FEAT. TOSHINORI KONDO (Hamid Drake, Harrison Bankhead, Benjamin Duboc, Ramon Lopez + Toshinori Kondo)
* BILL ORCUTT & CHRIS CORSANO & GURO SKUMSNES MOE


SAMEDI 26 AOÛT 2017

* FRANZ HAUTZINGER SOLO
* ONCEIM «LAMINAIRE #7» (Frédéric Blondy, Pierre-Antoine Badaroux, Félicie Bazelaire, Sébastien Beliah, Patricia Bosshard, Cyprien Busolini, Giani Caserotto, Xavier Charles, Pierre Cussac, Jean Daufresne, Bertrand Denzler, Vianney Desplantes, Benjamin Dousteyssier, Jean Dousteyssier, Benjamin Duboc, Yoann Durant, Rémi Durupt, Elodie Gaudet, Antonin Gerbal, Jean-Brice Godet, Louis Laurain, Julien Loutelier, Jean-Sébastien Mariage, Frédéric Marty, Anaïs Moreau, Stéphane Rives, Arnaud Rivière, Joris Rühl, Diemo Schwarz, Alvise Sinivia, Deborah Walker)
* L'OCELLE MARE SOLO
* PERE UBU « MOON UNIT » (David Thomas, Steven Mehlman, Keith Moline, Gagarin, Darryl Boon)
* PETER BRÖTZMANN & SABU TOYOZUMI & TOSHINORI KONDO


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Looks terrific again this year! Going to miss opening night again as I'll be at another musical event, John Eliot Gardiner conducting his forces in Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" at Lucerne Festival ... would love to see him do the other two Monteverdi operas, but don't want to miss Météo because of this ... hard choice!

Got my festival pass already

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on the way to Mulhouse now 

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Heard Julian Lage with his trio at Moods, Zurich, last night (Jorge Roeder-b, Eric Doob-d) - terrific show! How they meld all kinds of americana (lots of jazz, some blues, folk, country, and some glossy pop and bits of loungy stuff, too) into a very coherent mix is quite amazing, but the main show is Lage on guitar, spinning endless lines with a flow of ideas that often is miraculous indeed (and a few times actually had me think of Sonny Rollins) ... the way they deal with dynamics, being able to change from cathartic, powerful fff to the most glowingly intense pianissimo is fantastic. You don't get too many jazz musicians paying attention to dynamics, alas ... Roeder and Doob proved excellent sidemen, the three form a tightly-knit unit, and the two sidemen also had their solo spots and made excellent use of them, too. Lage plays his telecaster (Springsteen's favoured guitar for ages) with no twitchings of the sound at all, but he gets quite some stuff out of it, making good use of its twang and playing his very clear, singing lines (Jim Hall was the master, right?) with a sound that is totally his own and creates a wonderful contrast to the stuff he actually plays - sometimes you'd rather expect a woosh à la Bill Frisell or a real country twang often - but he gives you neither, instead offering his own stuff, which, after all, is just what jazz is about.

Crappy smartphone pics (despite the club being full and the queue long, we got lovely frontrow seats)