From 04/08/2010 to 04/16/2010
Music/Concerts
Versailles jazz Festival
After the resounding success of the 2009 Festival, the 7th Versailles Jazz Festival is taking place this year from April 8th to 16th, 2010
On the program:
• April 9th: the Django Memory Quartet with David Reinhardt will carry us off from the first notes in the Django universe, for brilliant jazz manouche communicating subtly; at the Conservatoire (Versailles).
• April 10th: Mambo Legacy, the fifteen musician big-band, will carry us back to the era of the mambo; at La Batterie (Guyancourt).
• April 11th: the Oignons Jazz Band will play, sing and tap-dance in pure New Orleans jazz style; at the Trianon Palace (Versailles).
• April 12th: the Pink Turtle will revisit major pop and rock hits with creative jazz and brilliant swing; at the Montansier Theater (Versailles).
• April 13th: the Mirabassi-Renzi-Parker trio will set to music the pleasure of playing around Mirabassi's luminously pianistic performance; at the Montansier Theater (Versailles).
• April 14th: the Big-Bands from the Conservatoire and ENM d’Orsay will pay homage to the great Canadian trumpet player and composer, Kenny Wheeler; at the Conservatoire (Versailles).
• April 15th: Richard Galliano Tangaria Quartet, a virtuoso of the jazz accordion, will dazzle us with his unstoppably swinging melodies; at the Montansier Theater (Versailles).
• April 16th: Gospel Dream, a mixed, cosmopolitan ensemble, brings its warm voices full of faith to sing of hope and freedom, with contagious enthusiasm; at the Saint Joan of Arc church (Versailles).
And let's not forget the OFF Festival on April 8th, in the cafés and restaurants of Versailles, organized by Association Jazzav.
Complete program on the official festival site:
www.versaillesjazzfestival.eu
Contact: contact@versaillesjazzfestival.eu