La
Comedia launches a new program
for the promotion of jazz in live.
La Comedia is a theatre
house technically able to host performances ranging from
drama to live music.
One of its managers, Renato Ribeiro, has decided to launch,
along with Jazz Passion (www.positifs.org/jazz-passion), low fee jazz concerts*.
They will be run
every fortnight, beginning on friday the 15th of
november 2002, then on friday the 29th of
november
and on wednesday the 18th of
december.
On friday the 14th of
february
2003, on friday the 28th of
february, on friday the 14th of
march,
on thursday
the 27th of March, on friday the
11th of April, on friday the
9th of May, on thursday
the 22th of May ...
Renowned artists as well
as new comers will be scheduled.
Each concert will be
followed by a jazz musical program (a datebase of more than
20.000 records is available).
Each night will be
organized as follows:
- gates opened
at 8.30 pm,
- concert at 9 pm,
- musical program from 11 pm to 2 am.
Please feel free to
contact for any further information** on behalf of
Jazz-Passion:
La Comedia
2, impasse Lamier,
750111 Paris / Mail address : 8, rue Mont Louis, 75011
Paris, France
Tel: 00 33 1 58 39 39 10 / email:
la.comedia@libertysurf.fr
* entrance 10 Euros,
drinks 3 Euros: a clear will to open jazz to everyone
!
** Renato Ribeiro
is available for any contact with musicians.
Musicians will get a 30% rate over the entrances with a 120
euros minimum guaranted per musician (on the basis of a
trio).
Musicians may
decide to offer their fee (or part of it) to POSITIFS (whose
web site houses Jazz-Passion web site), an organization
raising funds for it's Urgent Help Fund (" Fond d'Aide
Rapide " / FAR) to help AIDS victims in social precarity due
to their illness.
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 15th of
November 2002 at 8:30 PM
Gilles Marc Dardenne trio (9:00
PM)
Gilles Marc Dardenne (piano),
Benjamin Duboc (bass), Sunny Murray
(drums).
A
pianist fulfilled with Monk and Bud Powell, one of
the greatest drummers of jazz history
and a young bass player to discover !
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(CB & GM)
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 29th of
November 2002 at 8:30 PM
Sonny Simmons Quartet (9:00
PM)
Sonny Simmons (saxophone), Tom
McClung (piano),
Gildas Scouarnec (bass), John Betsch
(drums).
Influenced by Charlie
Parker, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy,
he was nicknamed "the enfant terrible of jazz"
during the sixties ;
Sonny Simmons is back in France !
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(DL & GM)
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Wednesday the 18th of
December 2002 at 8:30 PM
Jean-Philippe Viret Trio
(21h)
Jean-Philippe Viret Trio (bass)
Edouard Ferlet (piano), Antoine Bainville
(drums).
Having
worked as a sideman with a number of jazz
giants
(Stéphane Grappelli, Lee Konitz, Lenny
Popkin, etc),
he started this wonderful trio in 1998 and soon
propelled it at the zenith !
After touring Japan in November 2002 he is back in
Paris at last!
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(JPS & GM)
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 14th of
February 2003 at 8:30 PM
Cynthia McPherson Performance Group
(21h)
Cynthia McPherson (vocal)-Dominique
Subièla (soprano saxophone), Bobby Few
(piano),
Benoît Gazzal (bass), George Brown (drums)
and two surprised guests.
A
tribute to Thelonious Monk by the Cynthia McPherson
Quintet.
With her husband who plays as artfully as Steve
Lacy !
With a virtuoso whose approach at the piano
ranges
from Art Tatum to Cecil Taylor with touches of Monk
!
An evening also under the sign of " My Funny
Valentine "É
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(JPS, GM, PA, SR/DS)
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 28th of
February 2003 at 8:30 PM
Byard Lancaster Philly Sax
(21h)
Byard Lancaster (as, ts, ss, fl,
bcl), Gilles-Marc Dardenne (p),
Benjamin Duboc (b), Olivier Renne (d), Miss Michal
Beckham (voc).
" From
the Sex Machine to the Love Supreme " : this
multi-instrumentalist,
very famous in the USA, describes the wide spectrum
creations this way.
" The Thunder Bird or the traveller who stays on
all the branches of Jazz":
from soul music of James Brown to improvisations of
John Coltrane !
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(DP, GM & JPS)
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 14th of
March 2003 at 8:30 PM
Arnaud
Sacase Quartet (9
PM)
Arnaud Sacase (alto saxophone
alto), Jobic Le Masson (piano),
Benjamin Duboc (bass), John Betsch
(drums).
Arnaud
Sacase, a composer and improviser who always keeps
in mind
the dazzling moments of free jazz, a very free and
very creative jazz
with Jobic Le Masson and Benjamin Duboc, his pal in
this musical research
and the well-known great John Betsch !
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(GM & JPS)
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Thursday the 27th of
March 2003 at 8:30 PM
Spring Songs Trio/Quartet (9
PM)
Rasul Siddik (trompette), Eric
Montigny (piano),
Yvan Faure (bass), Ichino Onoé
(drums).
These
musicians are bringing a tradition back to life :
the one of the "Prestige " records !
These are jazz trio and quartet in their most
genuine form together,
with the warm and direct sounds of French jazzmen
now.
They will be associated with the incomparable sound
of Rasul Siddik, from St Louis,
Missouri.
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 11th of
April 2003 at 8:30 PM
Olivier Renne Quartet " Amalgam "
(9 PM)
Jean-Paul Adam (alto saxophone),
Jean-Pierre Fouquey ( piano),
Benjamin Duboc (bass), Olivier Renne
(drums).
Founded in 1993 by Olivier
Renne,
Amalgam is a band which has created a sound of its
own,
finding its inspiration in the "Coltranian"
background,
keeping the memory of the great arrangers of the
sixties.
And, with one of pianists of Christian Vander,
of
the famous MAGMA group !
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Friday the 9th of
May 2003 at 8:30 PM
Lenny Popkin Trio (9 PM)
Lenny Popkin (tenor saxophone),
Jean-Philippe Viret (bass), Carol Tristano
(drums).
With
an Art of fluidity and improvisation to serve the
standards !
On the trails of Lester Young and Warne Marsh
and of various other musicians from the school
founded by Lennie Tristano.
" Marvel of lyricism, the song of his saxophone
slides along the impalpable shores of dreams"
" How Deep Is The Music of Lenny Popkin Trio !" (Dr
Gilbert Maurisson).
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JAZZ EN LIVE AT LA
COMEDIA
Thursday the 22th of May 2003 at
8:00 PM
1st Part
: Claudine François -
Jean-Jacques Elangué Duo (8:15
PM)
Claudine François (piano),
Jean-Jacques Elangué (tenor
saxophone).
Music
to dance, to sing, to dream, to travel...
"Here is a music with the power and strength to
carry you
outside of yourself , to transport you through
space ...
Claudine has graduated " cum laude " into the world
of great jazz musicians .
Welcome Claudine !" (Mal Waldron).
Photoreport
(CD, DL & GM)
2nd Part
: Sarah Morrow and Friends (10:00
PM)
Sarah
Morrow (trombone),
Alain Jean-Marie (piano),
Gildas Scouarnec (bass), John Betsh (drums) with
Inès Desquines (vocalist).
With one of the most important jazz
personalities amongst trombone players
who has been discovered by Ray Charles !
With a great pianist, admirer of Bud Powell and
Wynton Kelly,
who kept however his indies origins.
And as a guest-star : The singer who just explored
Steve Lacy's songs repertoire !
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(CD, DL & GM)
LA COMEDIA
2, Impasse Lamier, 75011 Paris
(By rue Mont-Louis - M° Philippe Auguste -
line 2)
RESERVATION REQUIRED : 01 58 39 39 10
or la.comedia@libertysurf.fr
ENTRANCE FEE: 15 euros
The Jazz in Live events at La Comedia
are organized together
with Jazz-Passion
(<www.positifs.org/jazz-passion>),
A part of the profits raised by "
Jazz en Live à La Comedia " evenings
will be given
to POSITIFS (whose web site houses Jazz-Passion web
site), an organization
raising funds for its Urgent Help Fund ("Fond
d'Aide Rapide"/FAR)
to help AIDS victims
in social precariousness due to their disease.
© Copyright
Jazz-Passion & La Comedia, 2003.
Page maintained by Christian Boullangier, May
2003.
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