La Seine Musicale embarks on a season of jazz

Thomas Dutronc invites himself to the land of jazz.

Or on an island, rather.

For the 48-year-old musician who is participating, this Saturday, in the opening night of the third jazz season at the Auditorium de la Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, the show will take on the appearance of a cheerful homecoming.

The variety singer who had poured into guitar and gypsy jazz in his youth will return to his first musical passions by accompanying on stage the guitarists Biréli Lagrène - with whom he had already played in the 2000s - and Sylvain Luc.

This will be the first trio concert.

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Biréli Lagrène and Sylvain Luc, for their part, have already played together and even recorded two albums together. As François Lacharme has indicated, there is however no reason to fear that this first concert for three will go otherwise than wonderfully, any talented musician being able

, told AFP Francois Lacharme, jazz programmer Auditorium musical Seine since its inauguration in 2017.

A season of dialogue between cultures

The new jazz season of Seine Musicale should not lack this kind of more or less impromptu conversations. On December 3, accordionist Vincent Peirani, a follower of this kind of meetings without a net, will indeed dialogue - and in music - for the first time with two musicians from distant horizons whom jazz brings together: the Beninese guitarist Lionel Loueke and the Armenian pianist Tigran Amasyan. Two artists who make their instruments sing by integrating the traditions of their countries into their jazz, and who will not fail to make the public travel. In the same vein of an exchange of very diverse musical flavors, the trio of Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, Cuban pianist Omar Sosa and Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu will also perform on stage on November 14.

Another unprecedented meeting without borders: on September 21, the jazz singer Cyrille Aimée will invite to join her, in her light trio, Lucienne Renaudin Vary who has already carved out a good reputation at 22 years old in the world of classical and jazz. The meeting between these two women with the mutinous vivacity promises to make sparks. The second semester of this third jazz season will be less loaded with new encounters, although more filled with international stars, in the cosmopolitan spirit defended by François Lacharme. We will find the American double bassist Christian McBride in quintet, the Israeli AviShaï Cohen, the British jazz-fusion guitarist John McLaughlin and the South Korean singer Youn Sun Nah.