Petit Bulletin LYON - Concerts Lyon: Jazz & World Sound - What not to miss in terms of jazz and world sound this season - article published by Stéphane Duchêne

“It would be indecent to give up jazz,” said the poet. On this point, the resumption of business shows one thing, there is no question of giving up this discipline, the seasonal menu of which is particularly generous, whether among generalists or specialists in the genre.

On this point, the Opéra Underground is not far from being the most eclectic, which can also invite the chamber jazz of a Vincent Courtois (it's right away, this September 22) for a tribute to... Jack London than a Bashar Mar-Khalifé flirting with world music. For the Opéra Underground, there is moreover only a step between the two, which also programs the best of world sound: from Piers Faccini, a folk crucible all by itself of music that makes around the world (September 26 as part of the Chemins des songwriters, before another performance in January) at the Colorist Orchestra which accompanies the unclassifiable Howe Gelb, a voluntary wanderer between genres.

The OU program is accompanied by an absolutely divine world sound catalog with the "prodigy of chaâbi" Kamel El Harrachi (September 24 and 25), the traditional Japan of Yoshi Tsuné, the rhythms of resistance of the French flautist Syrian Naissam Jalal, or the Star Feminine Band, a fascinating formation made up of seven Beninese teenagers revisiting the genres and traditions of their countries, signed by the Born Bad label (November 19).

Also watch the Jazz events at... du(des) Ninkasi, in Saint-Romain with Sunny Soul (October 2), in Brignais with the Trio Anouman (October 9), at OL Vallée with Freshtet (October 10), in Vaise with Equinox Trio (October 21), in Champagne with Obsidiane Trio (October 22)...

At the pure and hard specialists that are the Periscope and the Hot Club, we can applaud at the first of the big names such as François Corneloup who offers his own version of the Revolut!on (September 30), The Very Big Experimental Toubifri Orchestra (October 9 ) or La Marmite infernale, who came to present Humeurs et vacillements, and for the second, the Jean-Charles Demichel Quartet (September 24), Mario Stanchev in solo piano (September 30), the 7tet Jazztronomik (October ¹ ), François de Larrard & Michel Colon (October 7).

Young from old

Paradoxically, even if it is actually a paradoxical habit, it is indeed among general practitioners that we come to applaud the biggest headliners, those that we find in particular at festivals.

It is indeed within the framework of the annual season program of the Jazz à Vienne festival that the stars (and regulars, they really feel at home) who are the man with the voice in gold and wearing a lycra hood Gregory Porter (November ¹ ) and the indestructible Michel Portal who comes to present the album designed for his 85th birthday, very logically baptized MP 85 (October 18) before a young also spirited succeeds him a month later in the person of Chucho Valdès, barely 80 years old (November 17).

To see Marcus Miller (October 25) and his concert postponed a thousand times, it will however be necessary to go and chat on the Radiant side where you can also go and greet the handsome Kyle Eastwood (November 18) and the beautiful Ayo (November 8) or shake your butt to the sound of electro-swing-gypsy music from Caravan Palace (November 19).

And if you like the gypsy, of course, there is always Thomas Dutronc somewhere, in this case at the Espace des Vallons du Lyonnais du Vaugneray (October ¹ ). Add to that the Grupo Compay Segundo and you will recognize that it will not only be indecent to give up jazz (and all its cousins), it will simply be impossible.