PRESS FILE
THE TOURIST OFFICE & THE EDEN CASINO PRESENT:
10th to 19th July 2015
from 8:30pm
Antibes Juan-les-Pins
Pinède Gould
Friday 10th July
VADEL
Charles pasi
CARLOS SANTANA
Saturday 11th July
GOGO PENGUIN
Tigran HAMASYAN
avishai cohen’s « new york division »
Sunday 12th July
Herbie hancock & chick corea
Monday 13th July
best of the «off festival»
(in the streets of Antibes Juan-les-Pins)
Tuesday 14th July
JZ QUARTET featuring COCO ZHAO
sARAH McKENZIE
Pink Turtle
Wednesday 15th July
RHIANNON GIDDENS
SNARKY PUPPY
« ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA »
Thursday 16th July
THOMAS ENHCO
LIONEL RICHIE
Friday 17th July
AL JARREAU
MELODY GARDOT
Saturday 18th July
KENNY GARRETT QUINTET
marcus miller with Very Special Guest Ibrahim Maalouf
Sunday 19th July
Gospel Night - ecumenical celebration:
american gospel Jr
55TH JAZZ A JUAN 2015
EDITORIAL
The longest running jazz festival in Europe and member of the International Jazz Festivals Organization which
unites the biggest festivals in the world, the international jazz festival of Antibes Juan-les-Pins «Jazz à Juan» is
an integral part of French and European cultural heritage, essential through its outstanding influence, making
it one of the most prestigious and efficient means of communication for Antibes Juan-les-Pins and the French
Riviera on an international level.
True to its tradition of being simultaneously chic, elitist, popular but also highly varied, since 1960 «Jazz
à Juan» has been presenting all forms of jazz. Swing, be-bop and post-be-bop, gospel and roots, soul, funk
and rock, African, European and American, contemporary and «New Orleans»... The terms swing and the
audience changes.Younger than ever, on the search, curious and moving, this is the very essence of the musical
style’s irrefutable popularity.
«Jazz à Juan» is evolutionary, or in other words optimistic, intuitive, nonconformist, avant-gardist, universalist,
synergistic, culturalist, environmentalist, humanist, intimist, modernist, mutationist, mutualist, progressive,
retrofuturist... While celebrating her 55th anniversary, «Jazz à Juan» retains all the visceral instinct of her own
legend, forged over the course of the decades.
This year once again, as jazz and its close musical relatives cyrstallise into rare forms, the festival is more than
ever open to artistic expression, welcoming many legendary figures who come to perform their most recent
hits to the public.
© Gilles Lefrancq (2014)
FRIDAY 10TH JULY
VADEL
Trumpet and piano at the music school from the age of six, guitar at the
school of (good!) life from the age of twelve, a guitar which quickly became
his instrument of choice... Passionate about music, Adam Vadel grew up to
the sounds of funk, soul and rock, listening to Ray Charles, Michael Jackson,
Prince. With a solid base of musical references, he was still in high school
when he decided to found his first group under his own name, in which
he sang and played guitar. During a rehearsal at their studio, the young
group caught the attention of a person close to Philippe Manœuvre, who
programmed them to play at the evenings «Rock’n’Roll Fridays» at Gibus.
At the age of fifteen, he recorded and self-produced his own album «Vadel»
which gained him recognition by a record label, giving him the possibility of
developing himself as an artist and playing at Montreux Jazz Festival. During
this period, he performed as the support band for internationally renowned
artists (Iggy Pop, Joe Cocker, Pink and INXS) and played together with Carlos
Santana, for whom he is performing the opening act of his 2015 tour. Second
album and first single: «Adam & Eve».
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
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CHARLES PASI
Charles Pasi is a rising star. He grew up in Paris, but this young writer-composer-performer-instrumentist
spent many summers across the Atlantic listening to Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan,
who all forged his identity. His music comes from deep within, featuring arrangements full of passion and
enthusiasm, combining influences, breaking with conventions, navigating, exploring. Not forgetting the very
beautiful harmonica solos, an instrument which he adopted at age seventeen in a spirit of rebellion and which
he masters to perfection, always keeping it close to hand.
Charles Pasi enjoys travelling, seeing borders fall away,
identities which mingle, blues, jazz, soul, classical music, in
short every kind of music which brings warmth to the heart.
These voyages shaped his youth and honed his talent. As
the fruit of a generation obsessed with speed, superficiality
and technology, like a craftman he prefers to learn forgotten
secrets. On stage, he’s a real performer, praised by a certain
Archie Shepp,“a Mediterranean man with seductive eyes who
sings like a black American and plays jazz and rock melodies
equally well”.
Last year, invited to the Jazz Off fringe festival, he earned
frenzied applause and had all the media talking about him.
This year he is on the stage he rightfully deserves, in the
Gould pine grove.
First « Jazz à Juan » concert.
© D.R
FRIDAY 10TH JULY (cont.)
CARLOS SANTANA
It is sometimes a challenge to pinpoint the key element of a career, especially when we’re talking about artists
who have remained at the top of the charts for decades while embarking on numerous musical adventures.
Carlos Santana inflamed the early 1970s by merging rock and Latin rhythms at Woodstock and on legendary
albums such as Abraxas. As an admirer of the musical revolution sparked off by Miles Davis and John Coltrane,
he decided to incorporate elements of jazz music into the sounds of his band, before returning to the spicy
sounds of Cuban rhythms. And yet one note is all you need to recognise him; a single note says it all: THE
Santana sound is dinstinctive and unique.
An incredible guitarist, an accomplished musician with undeniable charisma, during forty years of career Carlos
Santana has sold over one hundred million albums and performed before more than more than one hundred
million spectators. Santana has gained ten Grammy® Awards and three Latin Grammy® Awards, a place in
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was classed 15th in the top one hundred best guitarists of all time by
the magazine Rolling Stone. In him, passion and melody, genius and talent are all rolled into one, with music
the expression of his soul and heart. His new work, «Corazón», his very first Latin album (RCA/Sony Latin
Iberia), is already certified U.S. Latin Double Platinum. «If history can lead the next generations of musicians
to continue to act, change and create, to be inspired and hunger for spirituality, well then, so much the better,
because that’s what I have aimed at myself.»
His « Jazz à Juan » concerts: 1988, 1991, 1993, 2011.
© Erik Kabik
SATURDAY 11TH JULY
GOGO PENGUIN
They met at the Royal Northern College of Music and formed their band in Manchester in 2012. After a first
album acclaimed by the British critics, GoGo Penguin are now unanimously recognized as the rising stars of
the English jazz scene, having won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for best album of the year 2014 with their
new opus “V2.0”, on which the suave trances of this trio - strongly approved by Jamie Cullum and Gilles
Peterson - harmonise in an impressive way, like their glorious Scandinavian elders E.S.T.
Clear and refined notes, a perfectly weightless pitch, great musical talent, unpredictable rhythms, catchy
melodies, powerful bass, very rousing riffs… Chris Illingworth at the piano, Nick Blacka on bass and Rob
Turner on drums turn up the volume for their riffs, break-beats and other melodious meteorites, merging one
song into the next, adding drama to their chords without ever overdoing it; the piano calls the tune but the
bass and drums are never reduced to mere accompaniments.The extremely seductive universe of these three
trendy boys is not to be missed! Jazz featuring pop and lingering accents now has three new ambassadors. In
Juan!
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
TIGRAN HAMASYAN
Within twenty-five years he has won it all! Prizes, eternal recognition by his peers, and the necessary maturity
leading him to create modern and surprising albums such as his latest work «Mockroot». Tigran, a bold and
passionate young talent, the new piano star with a devilish technique, burst onto the jazz scene with fierce
genius and all the energy of youth, dazzling listeners with his musicality
both spontaneous and well thought out, delicate and powerful, as
well as his great charisma on stage, full of relaxed warmth. «Jazz à
Juan» is delighted to welcome back this exceptional artist who, at age
sixteen, won the title Jazz à Juan Revelation 2003, three years before
the prestigious first prize for piano-jazz awarded by the Thelonious
Monk Institute of Jazz.
Tigran doesn’t hesitate to blend classical and contemporary music,
traditional tunes and rock (passing from Satie and Bach to Art Tatum
and Coltrane, from traditional Armenian music to majestic swing,
not to mention Robert Plant and Jimmy Page...). People are already
comparing him to Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau,
who incidentally have always considered him to be part of their family
from the outset. Within the space of just six albums he has managed
to gain the status of a confirmed international jazz star. Tigran is alive
with movement, singing, playing, and when he plays he switches from
an introverted, Glenn Gould style position to the dashing stances of
a hard-rocker. Yet nothing is over the top, everything is sincere and
generous. In short, a very great man for a very great concert!
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His «Jazz à Juan» concert: 2007.
SATURDAY 11TH JULY (cont.)
AVISHAI COHEN’S
« NEW YORK DIVISION »
As the worthy successor of Charles Mingus, mentored by Chick Corea, Avishai Cohen remains now more
than ever one of the most influential musicians on the current jazz scene. He is an untiring explorer, always
ready to shift the boundaries between styles, and he is universally recognized as a gifted jazzman offering great
variety, drawing inspiration from Middle East music as well as Latin rhythms and pop. This talented man has
already won over the Gould pine grove with his charms, and he will be back for the 55th anniversary of «Jazz
à Juan».
An instrumentist, composer and singer, Avishai Cohen always expresses his free spirit, embracing Eastern and
Latin influences, going as far as to experiment with classic music, flamenco and pop! Like Stevie Wonder or
Gabriel Fauré, he stands out from the crowd and has given brilliant performances alongside Brad Mehldau,
Roy Hargrove, Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, Paquito D’Rivera and even Alicia Keys. His widely varied
style is evident! Through past and present he is one of those musicians who create the future of jazz, which
remains a matter from which anything can be moulded, «a jazz with the lyrical tone of Coltrane, with inventive
deconstruction of the classics… The result is genius yet with no intent to demonstrate, intense through its
collective energy and captivating through the highly varied approach without any loss of cohesion». (Le Monde)
His «Jazz à Juan» concerts: 2010, 2013.
© Youri Lenquette
SUNDAY12TH JULY
HERBIE HANCOCK & CHICK COREA
Two jazz greats together again on the stage of the
Gould pine grove! This is the chance to witness a
major moment of musical complicity between these
two unrivalled masters of improvisation: Chick Corea
and Herbie Hancock. For over fifty years, these two
artists have never ceased to innovate and reinvent
the piano. Their paths have crossed many times, giving
birth to exceptional and intense moments of music
such as the live album: «An Evening With Herbie
Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert».
© Douglas Kirkland
The show which Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock
are offering, playing face to face on their grand pianos
and sending rhythms back and forth at a frenzied
pace, is exceptional thanks to the way in which they
embrace jazz in its multitude of forms, never ceasing
to share with great happiness the fruit of their musical
precocity and generosity, combining delicate fingering
and phenomenal rhythmic play with apparent ease. To
be heard in Juan, «a magnificent place where all the
musicians in the world dream of performing» (to quote
Herbie).
© Taylor Crothers
Their «Jazz à Juan» concerts:
Herbie Hancock - 1963, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1985, 1990, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2011.
Chick Corea - 1969, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2014.
MONDAY 13TH JULY
BEST OF the «OFF Festival»
in the streets of Antibes Juan-les-Pins
Around 200 musicians in the streets and on the squares of Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, thousands of spectators
making no secret of their zest for life and their desire to share jazz in all its forms...
© Gilles Lefrancq, 2014
© Gilles Lefrancq, 2014
During this first «Jazz à Juan» evening, true to the tradition of Sidney Bechet’s crazy parade «Dans les rues
d’Antibes», all styles of jazz will resound and echo throughout the town, from place De-Gaulle to the little
pine grove, from promenade du Soleil to boulevard d’Aguillon.
© Gilles Lefrancq, 2014
TUESDAY 14TH JULY
Evening courtesy of the Town of Antibes:
By invitation only
JZ QUARTET featuring COCO ZHAO
All over the world! The flirtatious beginnings have led to a lasting relationship! On 16th
October last year, «Jazz à Juan» and «JZ Festival Shanghai», the leading jazz festival
in China, signed a collaboration agreement centred on promoting their two events via the
medias and the official websites managed by each organiser, as well as an exchange of artists
between the two festivals. This year we are honoured to welcome JZ Quartet and Coco
Zhao, one of the most famous jazz artists in China, grand winner of «The Voice of China».
For over ten years he has been giving musical
performance evenings in Shanghai, with an extraordinary
sense of rhythm and movement. He is a very capable
musician, delivering a brilliant blend of American jazz,
Chinese tradition, improvised European music but also
Afro-Cuban influences, at the heart of an excellent
international quartet alongside two Americans, Danny
Zanker (double-bass) and Charlie Foldish (dm) and an
Australian, Mark Fitzgibbon (p).
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
© D.R.
SARAH McKENZIE
«Sarah McKenzie is a musical gem. Don’t miss the chance to hear this lady live!» This recommandation was
given by no other than James Morrison, Australian star of jazz music, whom «Jazz à Juan» welcomed warmly
in 2008. Incidentally, Sarah McKenzie is also Australian, and she graduated from the West Australian Academy
of Performing Arts and won the Jazz ARIA award (Australia’s Grammy® equivalent) for best album.
Her peers have made no mistake,
as we have seen her performing
beside Michael Bublé, Chris Botti,
Enrico Rava and John Patitucci, as
well as playing with The Boston
Pops at Symphony Hall.
A voice like no other, a strong
presence, superb covers of Duke
Ellington, Irving Berlin and Shirley
Horn, but also a true talent for
composition to be discovered in
Juan.
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
© D.R.
TUESDAY 14TH JULY (cont.)
PINK TURTLE
As any well-informed herpetologist will tell you, Pink Turtle is decidedly the most active member of the
species: the seven artists who form this ensemble are not the kind to stay hidden under their shell. Flexible
and full of humour, these Princes of swing, who have won compliments and support from big names such as
Didier Lockwood, Jean-Jacques Milteau and André Minvielle, transform the greatest international pop hits into
deliciously jazzy concoctions! The idea is well-known: they reinterpret, in “1950 and 1960 crooner” style, pop
and rock hits dating from later decades. And the result sounds incredibly energetic, lively and entertaining.
In a word, Pink Turtle’s music must be savoured from beginning to end, with your ears wide open. This big
and brassy band excels in imitations with knowing winks. Great standards (such as “Money, money, money”,
“Satisfaction”, “Roxane”, “Black Magic Woman”, “Billy Jean”, “Nights in white satin”, “Hey Jude”, etc.) are
reinvented, deviated and rendered anew with dexterity, dished up with a salsa, mambo or cool jazz sauce!
Listeners are caught up in the fine-cut humility of these jazzy covers, to the point of forgetting the incredible
success of the initial songs. Their music becomes the melting pot of a great show filled with generosity and a
real joy of performing together. Not to be missed!
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
© Timothée Buisson
WEDNESDAY 15TH JULY
RHIANNON GIDDENS
She is the new voice of America! The exceptional tessitura of her voice, her vocal range enables her to be
in turns charming, seductive and flirtatious before bursting forth with
a poignant gospel exhortation or giving the main track of her first
album a hot and steamy feel. Her producer T-Bone Burnett doesn’t
beat around the bush: «Rhiannon is the successor is a long dynasty of
singers, such as Mahalia Jackson and Nina Simone.»
Co-founder of «Carolina Chocolate Drops», a formation full of energy
which breathes new life into blues, country and Southern folk music,
this Afro-American native to North Carolina plays the violon and the
banjo and has a passion for the Gaelic language, all this as an aside to
her qualification from the Music school where she studied opera. With
her supple voice, her haunting face and a musical elegance slipped into
the notes with the superb ease of people gifted in successful crossovers,
this beautiful artist will be gracing the stage of Juan, with an album
whose title is a whole programme in itself: «Tomorrow Is My Turn».
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
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SNARKY PUPPY
Their groove is addictive, their compositions are prepared with great care, the soloists are inspired and
their performances are passionate, while ensuring a shared party atmosphere. A concert by the Brooklyn
collective «Snarky Puppy» is quite an experience. «You’ll feel an intense pleasure, from the very first minutes,
but without knowing what kind of music you’re listening to. Jazz? Funk? Rock? Pop? Soul? Jazz-rock? Jazz-funk?
All this rolled into one, and with a faith capable of moving mountains,» explains Frédéric Goaty (Jazzmag)
enthusiastically.
«Snarky Puppy» is not to be missed: the band draws both fans and discerning music lovers into a majestic
live performance, midway between composition and
improvisation.
Awarded the Grammy® Award last year for the best
R&B performance, this vital musical axis, carried by
bassist Michael League, succeeds effortlessly with its
bursts of exhilarating brass instruments in defining
the rules of the game: permanent renewal of its
members, stage culture as its preferred place for
creation, explosion of the usual stylistic boundaries in
favour of an incongruous and decompartmentalised
mixture of funk, jazz and soul.After having performed
with Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake,
but also Marcus Miller, here they are for the first
time on the legendary stage of «Jazz à Juan» «for
your brain and body», since such is their motto!
© Christian Thomas Hynes
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
WEDNESDAY 15TH JULY (cont.)
«ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA»
E viva Zappa! In the 60s and 70s, Frank Zappa, master of the six-chord, reached the heights of blissful
iconoclast status. At a period when musical styles were increasing in number (and especially, becoming
compartmentalised!), he made rock, jazz, classical music, contemporary sounds and rhythm & blues all work
together. Nobody really knew how to categorise him. His references? The composers Edgar Varèse and Igor
Stravinsky, the jazzmen Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. His polyrhythmic, harmonic, melodic, polytonal and
atonal explorations were to inspire the whole sound experience of the West in the 20th century.
Who better than his own son, Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa (a.k.a. Dweezil Zappa), to cover Frank
Zappa’s immense repertoire, while respecting the meticulous spirit of his music and without altering it, be
it harmonically or rhythmically? Awarded a Grammy® for the best instrumental rock group in 2009, «Zappa
Plays Zappa», composed of talented young musicians united for the occasion and guests who were formerly
part of Frank Zappa’s team, are happy to breathe new life into this music which combines complex scores,
exhilarating groove and last stands. This is the opportunity to rediscover the Master’s remarkable work, and
to confirm that Dweezil too is decidedly a great guitarist.
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
© D.R.
THURSDAY 16TH JULY
THOMAS ENHCO
«Talented play? You know, today there are many musicians with my technical level. So talent must be a means
and not the goal.» These words were spoken by a child prodigy who began the violin at the age of three and
piano at age six. Rewarded by the Victoires du Jazz in the Revelation category in 2013, Thomas Enhco, very
relaxed on stage, doesn’t hesitate to speak to the audience: he names the songs he interprets and above all
plays piano wonderfully. We can hear the classical masters who shaped him, but also blues, rhythms and a
harmonic vocabulary which belong to jazz, as does the freshness of his music.
With a firm yet delicate touch, a sense of dynamics and nuances, the subtle use of
silence, the art of creating and linking atmospheres... Thomas Enhco proves to be
as skilled a melodist in his compositions as he is in the improvisations with which
he enhances and extends them. His style carries all the charm of youth and so little
of youth’s usual arrogance. At the dawn of a career which, as we can predict with
certainty, will be outstanding, this first concert in Juan is not quite the first: at the
age of nine, in 1998, he was invited to play on the stage in the pine grove by Didier
Lockwood, in the presence of the great Martial Solal. In Juan, the first performance on
a grand stage, and the first step in a brilliant career...
First « Jazz à Juan » concert.
© D.R.
LIONEL RICHIE
« All the Hits All Night Long 2015 European Tour »
Over 100 million albums sold, 22 hits ranked in the American Top Ten, five Grammy® Awards, an Oscar, a
Golden Globe and a multitude of mega-hits which have conquered the universe... Lionel Richie’s career is
stunning, and it began more than forty years ago with «The Commodores», one of Motown’s most popular
musical ensembles. Up until the end of the 70s, Lionel Richie ensured most of the group’s big successes, in
particular the famous «Three Times a Lady». In 1980, he began a solo career, leading him to write and produce
for Kenny Rogers «Lady», soar to the top of the charts in a duet with Diana Ross («Endless Love» - on the
original soundtrack of the film by the same name).What came next is a real epic saga, a magical string of gems
which have accompanied the lives of several generations.
An international superstar, Lionel Richie began his current tour in the
USA in September 2013. Since then, he has given 70 incredible shows
in stadiums and at festivals across Northern America, Oceania and
Asia, earning rave reviews. The repertoire is certainly rich, ranging from
«Dancing On The Ceiling», «Say You, Say Me», «Easy» to «Hello» and
«All Night Long», which he performed in front of a television audience
of approximately 2,3 thousand million people at the Olympic Games
in Los Angeles in 1984. Without forgetting of course the famous «We
Are The World», co-written with Michael Jackson, which will certainly
have the crowd singing along, joyously enthralled by the charisma of this
exceptional artist.
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
© D.R.
FRIDAY 17TH JULY
AL JARREAU
In numerology, 5 is the symbol of freedom, change, mobility, dynamism and adventure. And the esoteric
meaning of 5 is life! Al Jarreau recorded his first album, «1965», in... 1965, at the age of... 25; but it was ten
years later, in... 1975 that fortune truly smiled upon him. Noticed by a Warner producer, he recorded a
second album, We Got By, then, taking advantage of a first European tour, a third: Look to the Rainbow, which
gained him real recognition by the general public and
earned him the title of best singer thanks to the readers
of DownBeat magazine. Next came Breakin’ Away in 1981
(the year of his first concert in Juan), which made him
one of the most popular American jazz singers of the
planet.
Al Jarreau plays with his vocal chords in the same way
that a talented gymnast uses the extreme suppleness of
his body. Incredibly agile, his voice jumps in all directions
like a gymnast on a trampoline, with tonic effect. One
moment it will be expressing love, nestling among the
notes with infinite softness, and the next it transforms
itself into an astounding scat, becoming percussions or
© Marina Chavez
double-bass, yet still keeping the same disconcerting
accuracy and swing. His hits and above all his essential contribution in introducing rhythm to the vocal range
have gained him many fans and seven Grammy® Awards in the three categories jazz, pop, and R&B! He is back
this year with My Old Friend, a new album which pays tribute to the recently departed George Duke, king of
the keyboards, putting the final note to their friendship which lasted for close to fifty years.
His «Jazz à Juan» concerts: 1981, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1998, 2008.
MELODY GARDOT
The astonishing path of Melody Gardot has already been covered at length, since the terrible accident which
left her between life and death at the age of nineteen, up until her astonishing revival in which music played
a major therapeutic role. Straightaway, in 2010, she impressed the «Jazz
à Juan» audience with her unusal voice and maturity, both sophisticated
and profound, enticing and responsive. Then she disappeared. «I
understood that you can never repeat what you’ve already done the
first time. If music were a painting, you can only paint it once, it will
never be quite the same.»
And so Melody set off on a journey, letting herself be blown here and
there by breezes of music, enriching her repertoire with the colours of
Lisbon, Salvador da Bahia... Notes held back, sensual murmurs, breathing
which becomes song in itself... Melody Gardot must be heard to be
believed. Her music with its delightful melodies discreetly enters your
intimacy. Her mysteriousness adds to her beauty. «What does Melody
do?», asks Michel Contat (Télérama): «To be precise, she gets us in
the mood; she gives herself up to what, in terms of love, would be
called foreplay, a term which is quite apt in music too. It’s a real sensual
ceremony to which she is personally inviting each one of us, and nobody
could even consider offering any resistance.»
© Franco P Tettamanti
Her «Jazz à Juan» concerts: 2010, 2013.
SATURDAY 18TH JULY
KENNY GARRETT QUINTET
Kenny Garrett decidedly remains one of the best tooters in contemporary jazz! He feels as much at home with
the most complex forms of hard bop as he does with the smoothest jazz, and is capable of being wonderfully
exuberant and profoundly spiritual. Garrett delivers music that is never
nostalgic, jazz in perpetual progression, just as his peers always taught him.
His peers? Miles Davis for one (Kenny was the last person to play by the
side of this legendary trumpeter), who vouched for him by declaring that
he had never been so impressed by a saxophonist since Coltrane.
After having been taken under the wing of the latest jazz greats (besides
Miles, he was mentored by Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard), he himself
is now the one passing on the torch. But he doesn’t content himself with
simply spending his time managing this prestigious heritage: with his recent
recordings «Seeds from the underground» (2012) and «Pushing the world
away» (2014), he has confirmed his remarkable talent as a composer, yet
without ever turning his back on the popular music of his period, feeling
just as comfortable in the context of funk and rhythm‘n’blues as he does
with pop. This jazz great will take your breath away and he is now more
than ever an artist in his prime.
© Keith Major
His «Jazz à Juan» concert: 1996.
MARCUS MILLER
with Very Special Guest IBRAHIM MAALOUF
Crowned with two Grammy® Awards, but also an Edison Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Jazz and a «Victoire du Jazz» award in 2013 for the whole of his career in France,
Marcus Miller is not only a unique bassist and an extraordinary multi-intrumentalist, he
is also a composer and a producer gifted with exceptional talent. The legendary album
«Tutu» composed and produced for Miles Davis secured him world fame when he was
only 25 years old. Over the past two years, he has devoted his time to writing new
compositions inspired by his role as spokesperson for the UNESCO Slave Route project.
© Denis Rouvre
Headlining at «Jazz à Juan» in 2009 with Stanley
Clarke and Victor Wooten, ambassador for the 2010
edition with the Philharmonic Orchestra of MonteCarlo, back in 2011 for a superb «Tribute to Miles»,
then in 2013 with a new album «Renaissance»,
Marcus Miller, ever since 1996 and his first
appearance on stage in Juan, has never cease to
surprise and astonish spectators, giving his all and
winning them over. He is returning to the stage of
the Gould pine grove with the compositions of his
new album, blending jazz, funk and African rhythms,
and Very Special Guest: Ibrahim Maalouf.
© Sauvage
His «Jazz à Juan» concerts: 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013.
SUNDAY 19TH JULY
Evening courtesy of the Town of Antibes:
Free entry
Gospel Night - ecumenical celebration
AMERICAN GOSPEL Jr
© Jean Carpenter
Originating from the famous show «100 voices of Gospel» back in 1998, American Gospel Jr - one of today’s
most original and acclaimed gospel bands - has never ceased to travel the world to share their love for music,
for their fellowmen and for Gospel.Their concert is far more than a simple concert: it is the meeting of form
and depth, body and soul, with all the talent and enthusiasm required to make their show a moment of a rare
intensity.
Combining tradition and modernity, jazzy rhythms and rich singing, coloured with that religious fervour from
which Gospel first sprang, the group happily performs the classics of their repertoire, as well as the eternal
and ever popular hits such as «When the Saints Go Marching In» and «Oh Happy Days» and lesser known
texts, set to rhythms full of blues, rhythm‘n’blues or soul music. The group is directed by Reverend Jean
Carpenter, a generous artist with an impressive vocal range and just as much intense conviction.
First «Jazz à Juan» concert.
JAZZ OFF 2015!
Just like Avignon and from the very beginning, following on from those legendary and confidential jam sessions
of the early years, «Jazz à Juan» has its «Off festival». During the festival, all types of jazz can be heard in the
streets of Antibes Juan-les-Pins. The whole town grooves to the rhythm of these sunny celebrations.
Because «Jazz à Juan» is more than just the major concert-events given in the legendary Gould pine grove.
«Jazz à Juan» is a Festival in all its splendour, a unique kind of party, forming a triple unity of time, place and
action.
The time is one of holidays.
The place, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, where the average number of residents and tourists climbs to 220,000 in
summer.
The action, the multitude of events surrounding the traditional concerts on the main stage.
« Jazz Off » means:
• 2 open-air stages place De-Gaulle in Antibes and in the little pine grove in Juan-les-Pins, welcoming
around 2,000 people each day.
• 1 Jazz Club stage each evening after the concerts, in the legendary setting «Carrefour de la Joie», one
of the famous places of Juan nightlife immortalised by Sidney Bechet.
• 1 evening «Best Of the Off festival», with around 100 musicians performing in the streets and on the
squares of Antibes and Juan-les-Pins, to thousands of spectators making no secret of their zest for life and
their desire to share jazz in all its forms...
• Exhibitions.
• Musical entertainment provided by the partner establishments (restaurants, bars, beaches, hotels...).
• 2 parades per day by a marching band in the streets of Antibes and Juan-les-Pins.
© Gilles Lefrancq
Each year, counting the «In» and «Off» festivals, «Jazz à Juan» attracts well over 50,000 spectators.
Your Jazz à Juan evenings
« Les Jardins du Jazz »
Our V.I.P.* Village at the heart of the very famous Gould pine
grove, at the water’s edge, lit by the stars... of jazz !
A personalized welcome from 7pm, dinner at the beach (from
7pm to 10:30pm) and private box seats to ensure a privileged
view of the concert of your choice...
Experience a magical moment!
* maximum capacity per evening: 80 people, free parking and free shuttle bus
FOR MORE INFORMATION / RESERVATIONS :
Loraine MAUMY
Tourism & Convention Bureau
Antibes Juan les Pins
Tel : +33 (0)4 22 10 60 24
Email : [email protected]
www.jazzajuan.com
TICKET SALES 2015
To buy your tickets
from 9th March at 9am on the Internet and from 10th March at 9am over the counter
(sales for Carlos Santana began sooner, on 2nd February)
OVER THE COUNTER TICKET SALES
Tourism & Convention Bureau
Antibes: 42 avenue Robert Soleau, 06600 Antibes
Juan-les-Pins: 60 chemin des Sables, 06160 Juan-les-Pins
From Monday to Saturday: 9am - 12pm & 2pm - 5:30pm
On Sunday mornings: 9am - 12:30pm
In July, every day: 9am - 6:30pm
ONLINE TICKET SALES
www.jazzajuan.com
Home page - Ticketing / Book your shows
COMPANY STAFF COMMITTEES
Fax : +33 (0)4 22 10 61 01
Email : [email protected]
New in 2015: the Gold Zone («Carré d’Or»), means entrance to the festival site via the V.I.P. door, then a
special access point just in front of the stage with designated ushers, cushioned seats directly facing the stage
and less than 20 metres away, with an unimpeded view of the stage.
Dates
10/07
11/07
Artists
~ Vadel
~ Charles Pasi
~ Carlos Santana
~ GoGo Penguin
~ Tigran Hamasyan
~ Avishai Cohen’s «New York Division»
Gold
Zone
Categor y Categor y Category C a t e go r y
1
2
3
4
150 €
125 €
95 €
60 €
50 €
40 €
12/07
~ Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea
85 €
70 €
55 €
11+12/07
Combined ticket: 11th & 12th July
115 €
95 €
80 €
13/07
14/07
15/07
16/07
~ Best Of the «Off Festival»
(in the streets of Antibes Juan-les-Pins)
~ JZ Quartet featuring Coco Zhao
~ Sarah McKenzie
~ Pink Turtle
~ Rhiannon Giddens
~ Snarky Puppy
~ « Zappa plays Zappa »
~ Thomas Enhco
~ Lionel Richie
-
75 €
-
38 €*
30 €
20 €
15 €*
10 €*
45 €
28 €*
60 €
35 €*
35 €
18 €*
45 €
23 €*
In the streets of Antibes Juan-les-Pins
Evening courtesy of the Town of Antibes:
By invitation only
60 €
50 €
40 €
150 €
125 €
95 €
17/07
~ Al Jarreau
~ Melody Gardot
85 €
70 €
55 €
18/07
~ Kenny Garrett Quintet
~ Marcus Miller (with very special guest
Ibrahim Maalouf)
85 €
70 €
55 €
15+18/07
Combined ticket: 15th and 18th July
115 €
95 €
80 €
19/07
Gospel Night - ecumenical celebration:
~ American Gospel Jr
30 €
20 €
15 €*
10 €*
45 €
28 €*
75 €
38 €*
35 €
18 €*
45 €
35 €
28 €*
18 €*
60 €
35 €*
45 €
23 €*
Evening courtesy of the Town of Antibes:
Free entry
* Reduced rate, for under 18s and students and holders of the LOL 1625 card (proof must be shown).
TOURIST Office & CONVENTION BUREAU
60 chemin des Sables
06160 Juan-les-Pins
tel : +33 (0)4 22 10 60 01
fax : +33 (0)4 22 10 60 09
[email protected]
www.antibesjuanlespins.com
Antibes Juan-les-Pins l’Actu
Jazz à Juan
www.jazzajuan.com
Director: Philippe Baute
Artistic director: Jean-René Palacio
Press officer: Béatrice Di Vita
tel : +33 (0)4 22 10 60 29
[email protected]
Press assistant: Lucy Howard
tel : +33 (0)4 22 10 60 26
[email protected]
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www.twitter.com/jazzajuan
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This document was created by the Antibes Juan-les-Pins Tourist Office & Convention Bureau.
Programme subject to change - Text by Renaud Duménil
Jazz à Juan logo: www.editions-rouland.com
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