I dedicate this message to all fans who think or pretend that the talents of jazz can be played by persons under the influence of marijuana or who think or claim that jazz is played by talented people in influence of cocaine or substances and stuff. They do not know jazz. Jazz is seen in their subjective perspectives even addictive to these products "derivatives".
Although cocaine users do exist but in jazz performance required by today's international stages need to be in perfect possession of his physical and intellectual . Ambiguous figures can no longer afford to take the long ramp.
When I take my kids to a concert classical music or more "contemporary" like jazz, I make sure that these musicians are "clean" are also prestigious international reputations of these same musicians.
JAZZ IN MARCIAC is one of the four largest jazz festivals in France Estivals. The festival, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2007 is out of the ground in a small village near the southern Gers High Pyrenees. He knew best gastronomy, regional culture and jazz. Marciac with fewer than 1,300 inhabitants in the year is now famous worldwide. The festival itself is partnering with other festivals in Morocco, India, Brazil and the United States ...
The festival also owes much to the department, region and state that supports it in times of crisis ...
MARCUS ROBERTS
On 6 August, we witnessed one of the strongest moments of the sixteen days of music: concert Marcus Roberts, pianist, followed by his "protector" Wynton MARSALIS . Full tent sold out to over 6000 people.
Marcus Roberts was, among others, along with Jason Marsalis, a drummer and brother of Wynton Marsalis.
Marcus Roberts interviewed by the newspaper Sud Ouest during the festival, said:
" My style comes from the church . That's when I discovered the music with the gospel. My mother also influenced many, she was a singer. She sang with Aretha Franklin "Amazing Grace." But beyond that, my role is to perpetuate the legacy of large, musicians like Coltrane and Nat King Cole. Of make a living in the 21st century. "
Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton and other monsters of the jazz world, all of Marcus Roberts has all endorsed and adapted his style combines power and delicacy. He who has revealed to the public in the shadow of Wynton Marsalis continues his work of interpretation of standards with the album "New Orleans Meets Harlem".
In the same interview, Mohamed Najmi, South West reporter asked this question: "To create an atmosphere of equality with the public, have you ever asked to close eyes? "(Laughs) No, I never asked and never ask that to people. Instead, I want them to have their eyes wide open. I want them to feel my music, they take pleasure in seeing me play. "
Blind since the age of four, Marcus Roberts attended the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, which revealed many talents like Ray Charles.
Marcus Roberts has participated in the development of six albums initiated by his patron Wynton Marsalis. Because the latter did not detect in him a great blind pianist but a virtuoso jazz pianist.
WYNTON MARSALIS
same evening occurred Wynton MARSALIS therefore we had already seen and heard at the Paris Jazz Festival in Paris in 2007. Wynton Marsalis, 47, second in a family of six children and trumpet prodigy from the age of six years is the sponsor of this festival for several years. This is one of the most requested artists on the planet. He has 30 discs jazz and 16 discs of classical music , always on the trumpet.
Recently, he hosted the White House by invitation of Michelle Obama, a music workshop for 150 American college students.
Composer gifted, charismatic leader, lobbyist and effective ... man of deep convictions that we are free to share or challenge, but who speak plainly. For with Wynton Marsalis, the thought is never far from music. However, the native of New Orleans is one of strongest heirs music parade , of exuberant arrangements, solos to shake the walls. In short, music that springs from necessity, regardless of being thought.
He won a record nine Grammy awards. By combining the passage in 1983 Grammy jazz and classical Grammy: He is the only one to ever have achieved this unusual doubled.
Today he is the head of the most prestigious institution of jazz in the United States: Jazz at the Lincoln Center : a season of concerts set a big band conductor in providing a directory , a club to operate, and educational programs ... In all, nearly 1000 appointment public annual ! And he proceeds to " projects," an amount subject directory after another over the years, just like the European designers who offer each year a "new movie 'Sound: and the recent" He and She "on the first stirrings in love - I advise you to having to listen very closely - "Joe Cool's Blues on the world of Peanuts Charlie Brown's ode to urban fever what" Citi Movement ", etc.. And to stretch your fingers, Wynton Marsalis discusses willingly classical literature of the trumpet: Haydn, Mozart, Hummel, Jolivet, Bernstein, Ravel!
Tribute was made this August 6 to Sidney Bechet under the theme: " The passionate music of Sidney Bechet . Sydney Bechet gone there exactly 50 years. Sidney Bechet, one of the founding fathers of jazz belongs to the limited circle of "giants". Born in 1897 and died in 1959. jazz owes much to Louis Armstrong ...
Sidney Bechet the turbulent, it was the opposite of Wynton MARSALIS class. Bechet, seventh child of a shoemaker, great grand son of a lynched black unfortunately was irascible, quarrelsome, fantastic ... Musician passion, musician eclipses, marginal all margins, Bechet, fifty years after his death, and euphorise upset when they hear it. Deeply current relentlessly modern, it is a contemporary of several generations of enthusiasts who have discovered and loved jazz through him. I think especially to Jean Cocteau in his time was fascinated by the musician. Sidney Bechet suffered because its miscegenation, rejected by the black community as well as by whites of America. He ended his days in France, land of welcome and introduction. There was already in 1924 alongside the legendary Josephine Baker on stage at the Theatre des Champs Elysees in the "Negro Journal.
This August 6, 2009, Wynton Marsalis, trumpet, was accompanied by:
- Victor Goines, saxophone,
- Olivier Franc, 55, invited for the occasion, saxophone,
- Wycliffe Gordon, trombone,
- Bob Wilber, 81, invited for the occasion because, with Sidney Bechet with himself in the '50s and '60s, clarinet and saxophone,
- Dan Nimmer, piano,
- Carlos Enriquez, bass,
- Ali Jackson, drums.
All sat down to play better monitoring scores. In fact, these very exceptional artists do not always read ... their memory is enough ...
This August 6, from the first notes, we are again plunged back into the postwar years, the dances, his first jukebox, his New Orleans revival, his Saint-Germain-des-Pres. The history lesson is based on copper and the speed of sound.
Two pieces, already "St. Louis Blues . Then Olivier FRANC , 56, a French prize already awarded the Sidney Bechet who bestowed the great disciple of the Master, raising the temperature. He plays saxophone solo and cross-legged on the classic "Summertime . The public amazed by the artistic mastery and the breath of lung inexhaustible musical phenomenal ovation for several minutes this virtuosity in its purest . I'm even thinking of it as a reminder during a concert while the concert is not even finished ...
And that's the tube, the ineradicable "Little Flower". Victor Goines, saxophone, spreads its petals nostalgia. No dance yet. The roots of the Little Flower did not manage to reach the pores of the arms of shirts. The talent of the American public is breathtaking. New ovation shorter though. Difficult to "pass" as strong after Olivier FRANC.
However, the race against time printed by Wynton Marsalis, "leader" of the evening never wavered. The sound of the sextet suspends memory. BECHET: the past is not past. For the rhythmic piano of Dan Nimmer - we see growing on the giant screen above our heads, buttons jump to reach his fingers - still draw a border dynamics. Dried flowers are collected with the shovel, the memories too.
Fortunately, Sidney still holds some surprises, as this languid "Sweet Louisiana" discovered by even the son of Sydney Bechet, five years ago, on the far side of a registration forgotten. It will be sufficient that the son returned the tape to find the piece of his father ever heard. Only the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis could take the initiative to play the "dark side". Another highlight of the evening and the festival ...
This concert will certainly Great History of Jazz in Marciac ending after three of which feature four reminders reminders. A relatively unique because the reminders are limited to two, in general, according to current constraints.
In a reminder, I also noted the legendary: "In the streets of Antibes" long past the repertoire of classic jazz, wink at the festival of Antibes.
Previously, Wynton Marsalis has twice invited Marcus Roberts (and his band) to join him on stage to accompany on piano. Wynton Marsalis himself had been invited two hours earlier by Marcus Roberts.
Wynton MARSALIS visibly moved ovation by the audience will leave the scene with his arm, his friend blind pianist.
Over four hours of music produced by major professional artists who are no less gifted men sensitivity, of humanity and spirituality exceptional.
A great moment that we find certainly drive dvd and maybe soon.
Xavier ALGRET
The next day was dedicated to the discovery of Alsace in making its identity and reputation beyond our borders. Lunch at the heart of Colmar in shaded terrace. 
Then nearby: Eguisheim. Amazement of looking up at Cygogne nests and houses of this "medieval town built in three concentric circles around the castle" in the words of Leo Daul, a professor of German and Alsatian, present at our side during lunch the day before, the author or co-author of numerous books on Alsace. 
