Couleurs Jazz Club @ Musicora, Paris – June 1, 2 & 3

Musicora is the biggest annual event for music and musicians.

240 exhibitors will meet at La Grande Halle in La Villette, Paris on June 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2018.

Nearly 200 free activities around music and instruments (concerts, musical awakening workshops, introduction to an instrument, live and public radio programs, conferences …) are offered to the expected 15,000 visitors.

Instrument makers, luthiers, bow makers, score makers, application developers, concert and festival organizers, broadcasters, producers, soloists, orchestras, instrumental and vocal ensembles … Each year, music professionals present their achievements at public at the Grande Halle de La Villette in Musicora.

A unique rendezvous in France for all music lovers and the only public lounge dedicated to instrumental practice.

During the three days of the show, Musicora offers the general public and the music professionals a number of events and activities: musical awakening workshops and introduction to instrumental practice, conferences, speed meetings, concerts, dedications , presentations of new instruments and innovative music applications …

This year the godfather is Mr. Richard Galliano.

Couleurs Jazz, partner of the event for several years, comes back in 2018 with not only a booth to welcome music lovers and musicians, but a real ephemeral Jazz Club, a “mini” festival, not by its number of participants, since about fifty musicians in 22 Jazz bands will occur during the 3 days, but concerts in short format: (30 to 40 minutes) with the possibility for the public to approach the musicians as close as possible and to buy the albums and have them autographed.

A convivial moment, and extremely festive.

Within the Couleurs Jazz Club will also be present two independent labels among the most innovative:

Ilona Records created by Thierry Maillard who will perform with his big band of 15 musicians on the big stage, (Sunday at 14:45) and Jazz Eleven, the brand new label created by Giovanni Mirabassi.

The program:

1^st June:

NOX 3 à 12:00AM :

A trio that brings together open and singular personalities who are part of this new generation of musicians who wants to make jazz music firmly rooted in their time. The trio has joined the talents of Swedish singer Linda Oláh.

Line up :

Rémi Fox (saxophone)
Nicolas Fox (drums)
Matthieu Naulleau (piano)
Linda Oláh (voice)

A concert presented by Ilona Records

Then, at 1:00pm, a legend trio with:

Thomas Bramerie, Stéphane Huchard & Stéphane Guillaume

A trio made of the three most requested Parisian jazz scene and have been meeting for 20 years.

Line up :

Stéphane Huchard, drums
Stéphane Guillaume, saxophone
Thomas Bramerie, double bass

Concert presented by Jazz Eleven

Timothée Robert at 02:00pm

Timothée Robert starts with « Vide Médian » bridges between the West and the East, between spirituality and music, and between philosophy and creation. His contrasting music oscillates constantly between dark atmospheres and bright bursts, focused on the concepts of tension and relaxation.

Line up :

Timothée Robert (bass)
Melvin Marquez (saxophone)
Olivier Laisney (trumpet)
Nicolas Derand (keyboards)
Clément Cliquet (drums)

Program of the concert :

30 minutes set on the album Vide Median & a few pieces of the coming album

Concert presented by Ilona Records

Giovanni Mirabassi invites Sarah Lancman at 03:00PM

«She’s truly a great new voice for jazz»: that’s what Quincy Jones said about Sarah Lancman when she won the 1st Shure International Competition Award at the Montreux Festival in 2012. Following the success of her debut album “Inspiring Love” recorded in New York, singer Sarah Lancman returns with a new album “A Contretemps” with original compositions. On stage at Estavayer, Sarah Lancman will be accompanied by the pianist of light, Giovanni Mirabassi who imposes by a very personal style where the melodic and rhythmic richness is tied to the inventiveness of his improvisations: a superb internal logic is there work, which combines beauty, refinement and musical subversion. 17 Gold Records, Victory of the Music, Django d’Or, he played with Chet Baker, Steve Grossman, Eliott Zigmund, Glenn Ferris and many others.

They will autograph this second album, « À Contretemps ».

Line up :

Sarah Lancman, voice
Giovanni Mirabassi, piano

Concert presented by Jazz Eleven

Antiloops, at 04:00pm

At the crossroads of hip-hop, jazz and electro, flutist Ludivine Issambourg presents her project Antiloops. The sidewoman of Wax Tailor has a dialogue between the jazz flute and the scratch, supported by a band whose common denominator is Groove.

Line Up:

Ludivine Issambourg (flûte)
Nicolas Derand (keyboards)
Timothée Robert (bass)
Maxime Zampieri (drums)

Program of the concert :

30mn set on the album Lucid Dream & a few pieces of the futur album

Concert presented by Ilona Records

François Poitou Quintet, at 05:00pm

The double bassist and composer François POITOU leads us in a personal universe, a modern and intimate jazz tinged with classical. The orchestration gives this project a particular musicality, enchanting, a cinematographic and aerial universe.

Interprètes :

Bastien Ribot (violon)
 Aude-Marie Duperret (alto)
 Maxime Berton (sax soprano, clarinet bass)
 Federico Casagrande (guitar)
 François Poitou (doublebass, composition)

Program of the concert:

30mn set on the album “Funambule” & a few pieces of the futur one album

Trio nouveaux Siècles, at 06:00pm

They are three, a trombonist, a trumpet player, a saxophonist, and they swing like madmen bringing an incredible orchestral dimension without the contribution of harmonic instrument, or double bass, let alone drums, to pay tribute to the jazz of Chicago of the 1920s!

Line Up:

Julien Chirol (trombone)
Michel Feugère (trumpet)
Frédéric Couderc (saxophones)

Program of the concert:

30 mn set on the album. in the manner of Chicago & some pieces of the future.

Baptiste Herbin, at 07:00PM

Baptiste Herbin, one of the most requested saxophonists currently participates in many projects as sideman and has just released his third album as leader. Between two planes we are pleased to return to Musicora on our Couleurs Jazz Club, with some surprise guests.

– Line up:

Baptiste Herbin, Saxophones.
+ guests.

Saturday June 2:

Trillo de Angelis 4tet, at 12:00pm

A warm and soft acoustic sound in a jazz repertoire, but also world music, blues, bossa nova, European song book

Line Up :

Ljuba de Angelis (Voice)
Lionel Trillo (Piano)
Amrat Hussain (Tablas, Voice)

Program of the concert:

30 mn set on the album Origo & a few pieces of the next album.

Giovanni Mirabassi invites Sarah Lancman at 03:00PM

They will autograph this second album, « À Contretemps ».

Line up :

Sarah Lancman, voice
Giovanni Mirabassi, piano

Concert presented by Jazz Eleven

Yoann Kempst, à 14 H

“Taming the Animal”, this second album of guitarist Yoann Kempst has an animal side, sometimes wild, sometimes tamed. Yoann himself has a feline side in his movements, his approach and his flexible game.
Rock sounds, flying virtuosos, rhythm. There is Mike Stern, Pat Metheny in the touch of Yoann Kempst, plus the electrical sounds of his machines, feedback, distortion.
We feel a desire to return to the sources of rock and jazz. An animal desire, but controlled, the power of reason then taking over.

Line up :

– Yoann Kempst : guitar
– Guillaume Marin : bass
– Francis Arnaud : drums

Program of the concert : 30mn set on the album “Taming the Animal” & several pieces of the future album.

Marc Longchampt, at 03:00pm

Marc Longchampt a magnificent guitarist, composer. Now used to Couleurs Jazz sessions, he will give us a demonstration of his new lava stone guitars from Auvergne’s volcanoes. Friends, regulars will come to join him for an explosive Jam.

Line up :

Marc Longchampt, guitar.

+ guests

Damian Nueva, at 04:00pm

Damian Nueva, a Cuban double bass and bass player living in Paris. He multiplies the projects and is invited all over the world to print his rhythm, that of his heart with all his talent and his joy of sharing. He will come with surprise guests and we will also enjoy a solo moment. In the autumn of this year, his first album is released as a leader.

Line Up :

Damian Nueva,Double bass and bass.
Diego Lipnizky, Guitar.

Francis Lockwood, at 05:00pm

Francis Lockwood is a regular at Musicora and Couleurs Jazz concerts. One of the best Jazz pianists of his generation, Francis Lockwood comes back with a new album at Fremeaux et associés, expected this fall. He accompanied Michel Jonasz, Manu Katché, his brother Didier, Christian Escoudé, Tony Williams. Also at home to revisit Bach’s preludes or compose beautiful arrangements on Jimi Hendrix.

Line up :

Francis Lockwood, Piano.
Lisa Urt, Voix
+ guests

Joran Cariou, at 06:00pm

Joran is part of this new generation of emerging talent. Winner of the Tremplin Jazz Festival in St Germain, Paris, his latest album, “The Path Up” is a Hit Colors Jazz.

Line up:

Joran Cariou, Piano.
+ Guests

Sunday June 3:

Ludovic de Preissac Trio, ar 11:00pm

This trio is above all an invitation to travel through jazz in a broad sense (jazz standards arranged, Brazilian songs and French songs …). The repertoire, chosen with care, combines storytelling with music with exactness, offering a coherence to these musicians who “play” it all with humor and relaxation.

Line up :

Ludovic de Preissac: Piano
Mickael Joussein: Trombone
& guests

Thomas Bramerie Trio,at 12:00pm

After 30 years as a sideman, Thomas Bramerie, one of the most sought-after bassists on the jazz scene, decides to speak as a leader. He does it in music … and with words. Each of the original compositions of this album is accompanied by a text where he presents his vision of jazz … and society in general. In this first personal album (Label Jazz Eleven), he surrounds himself with two of the most remarkable young musicians of the new generation of French jazz, pianist Carl-Henri Morisset and Elie Martin-Charrière on drums. This is in the great tradition of transmitting Jazz music by the elders. He also joins the precious collaboration of some illustrious fellow travelers, Éric Legnini, Stéphane Belmondo and Jacky Terrasson.

He gives us the honor to come back for a Bonus concert, after his kick-off concert at Pan Piper, the night before!

Line up :

Thomas Bramerie (double bass)
 Carl Henri Morisset (piano)
Elie Martin-Charrière, drums
+ Guest Stéphane Belmondo (bugle, trumpet)

Concert presented by Jazz Eleven

Margeaux Lampley, at 01:00pm

He fascinated her from his childhood and gave him a taste for music and dance, so it was natural that jazz singer Margeaux Lampley pay tribute to Michael Jackson for his third album as a leader. She put all her talent, energy and feeling, and was not afraid to resume her best known hits with clever arrangements, full of groove. A cocktail of jazz, pop, and funk, for a great and singular replay of the great timeless hits of the eternal Michael Jackson.

Line Up:

Margeaux Lampley (voice)
Rémi Toulon (keyboards)
Jean-Luc Arramy (bass)
 Vincent Frade (drums)
Michel Feugère (trumpet)
Olivier Defays (saxophones)

Program of the concert :

30mn de set on the album “A tribute to Mickael Jackson”

Leo Rondon 4tet, at 02:00pm

Léo Rondon, guitarist, bassist and cuatriste. It is with the cuatro, this little Venezuelan guitar that Leo Rondon shows all the extent of his musicality and his virtuosity. For several years with the group Recoveco, he has just recorded his first jazz project as a leader.

Line up:

Leo Rondon, cuatro & guitar
Julio D’Santiago, drums
Juan Sebastian Jiménez, double bass
Sylvain Rabourdin, violon

+ special guest:

Mariana Arrreaza

Tricia Evy, at 03:00pm

The singer Tricia Evy, will present us “Usawa” her latest album unanimously hailed by all the press and which has just obtained a “Hit Couleurs Jazz”. She will be accompanied on the piano by David Fackeure. Between Jazz and Biguine. An important voice of the current Jazz.

Line Up :

Tricia Evy (voice)
David Fackeure (piano)

Thierry Maillard Big Band, at 04:00pm

After the concert on Musicora’s main stage, Thierry Maillard’s big band will dedicate his album in the Couleurs Jazz Club.

They will attend :

Stéphane Chausse : sax alto, clarinet, clarinet basse
Médéric Collignon : cornet + vocal
Claude Egea : trumpet & bugle
David Enhco : trumpet & bugle
Hadrien Féraud : electric bass
Stéphane Guillaume : sax soprano @ tenor, flute, clarinet
Didier Havet : tuba & trombone bass
Ludivine Issambourg : flute & flute alto
Sébastien Llado : trombone
Thierry Maillard : piano
Lucas Saint Cricq : sax baryton, tenor & sopranino
Yoann Schmidt : drums
Samy Thiébault : flûte, sax tenor, sax alto
Daniel Zimmermann : trombone
Christophe Zoogonès : flute

After fourteen albums published in twenty years, Thierry Maillard realizes the work of his life, with the creation of this exceptional big band, which synthesizes all his influences and his various musical experiences, in a great melodic, harmonic and rhythmic whirlwind, for the pleasure of all, and pursuing happiness, of course!

A music that is both demanding and playful for a permanent fireworks where the beauty of the melodies is carried by a relentless volcanic groove. The major work of a musician as endearing as inspiring! Rich and dense compositions, with many colors and contrasts. A terribly architectured music, with a stack of magical and secret drawers, and beautiful Russian dolls that fit into each other. An obvious passion for the world of Frank Zappa who has integrated all these influences in his own music, for Bartok too, with his famous concerto for orchestra. An immoderate love for the harmonious melodies and audacities of Bill Evans and Chick Corea, and then an important album that served as a catalyst for “Pursuit Of Happiness”, it is about “Wide Angles” that Michael Brecker published in 2003 and where he was magnificently surrounded by an orchestra of wood, brass, and strings (arranged by Gil Goldstein).

MFQ, à 17 H

MFQ, a young Franco-Colombian band has engraved its very personal style in a first album released at the beginning of the year: “What’s in the Pocket”. Very constructed and thoughtful we are offered a modern Jazz that could reconcile lovers of jazz as those who have not yet been initiated.
MFQ defines his music as “An ecstatic jazz oscillating between dreamlike harmonies and strong and catchy rhythmic breaks”

Line up: