Since the opening of le Parc de
Villette in early 1980, "jazz has always been present on the site,"
state Piquard Frank and Vincent Anglade, programmers since 2005 of Jazz
Festival La Villette. "It's important for us, it shows that you are
engaged in a story that transcends the incarnation of the festival by
its programmers. The site proposes many options. In the 1980s with
concerts at the Zenith in season (Miles Davis), a step the way of major
summer festivals in early July with stars of its kind - when the Jazz
knew one of its rebirth - and under banner of brewer Heineken.
Identified in The Great Hall with the Halle event That Jazz in the
early 1990's, boasting a time of a place dedicated, Hot Brass,
reinvented in a formula ambulatory several places on the site, from
1996 to 2001, then refocused on almost the only city of music, and in
September, Young again since 2005 on the site but also in places
outside the park. The 2008 programme of the duo says the
choice of balance between the creation, and unknown figures identified.
There was Coltrane, the Black Power years, the saxophone with three
white cards, today it will be jazz in its reports to other genres of
music and other artistic disciplines (dance, cinema, visual arts,
literature). With an obsession avoid meeting artificial born in the
mind of one responsable. The courage seems to pay. From 12 000
spectators in 2005, Jazz at La Villette rose to 20 000 in 2007. And
with 24 000 seeks, among other programmes which will involve the names
of Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker and Archie Shepp, Boris Charmatz and
Médéric Collignon, Verlaine and John Greaves,
Pierre Henry and Erik Truffaz, Pollock and DJ Spooky. More "classic",
the festival will also Charles Lloyd, The Bad Plus, Portal, Sclavis,
Texier, Drouet and Le Querrec, Lalo Schiffrin or Joshua Redman.
From 1 to
September 14. Tel. : 01-44-84-44-84. From 12 to 30 €
€. www.jazzalavillette.com
