The duo Blaz plays a dinner-show at the Café Breton for the Perros-Guirec Jazz Festival. David Hopkins and Clément Vallin work from original compositions between jazz, world music and contemporary sound. Improvisation carries the set: percussion, bass and samples build groove and dance rhythms close to trance. The café cooks its own food; a 10 € artistic contribution per person helps compensate the artists and support a festival dedicated to traditional music.
Tag: Jazz
Swunky Long Legs with Montélimar City Jazz
Swunky Long Legs joins Montélimar City Jazz with a blend of gypsy jazz, mainstream swing and funk. Singer Emily Przeniczka performs alongside guitarists Arthur Anelli and Symon Savignoni, with Michel Crosio on piano. Guitar and vocal improvisations create playful exchanges within the quartet. Their concert forms part of the local association’s recurring jazz season.
Sainte Cécile concert: Châteaudun and Vendôme
Châteaudun’s annual Sainte Cécile concert welcomes the Harmonie Municipale de Vendôme. The visiting ensemble mixes amateur musicians with advanced students and teachers from the École de Musique Territoires Vendômois. Its repertoire spans classics, film scores, jazz and traditional music. Rodolphe GENESTA-PIALAT directs the visiting musicians, while Franck DEROUET leads the Châteaudun ensemble.
Christmas Session : le Big Band du conservatoire
The jazz and musiques actuelles department of the Chartres conservatoire ends its year with the Christmas Session, heir to its older Christmas jam. The Big Band takes the stage beside the workshops of the different classes. The programme is left deliberately loose: standards, new finds and improvisation. The pupils and their teachers play together in the Salle Doussineau, and entry is free on reservation.
Sweet Mama: Jazz, Swing and Washboard
Sweet Mama brings blues, swing, boogie-woogie and calypso to Sens with a line-up led by Catherine “Cajoune” Girard. Her washboard and voice join guitar, violin and double bass, with kazoo and slide whistle adding further colours. The quartet shapes its own arrangements around influences including Charlie Christian, Stuff Smith and Fats Waller, drawing on jazz and blues repertoire.
Touraine Jazz Festival Concert
This Touraine Jazz Festival evening carries live jazz into the village hall at Francueil. The concert format keeps attention on ensemble playing, rhythmic exchange and the distinctive relationship between musicians and a nearby audience. As part of a regional festival, the stop gives a smaller commune a place within Touraine’s wider musical circuit, showing that jazz does not belong only to large urban stages. Listeners experience the music in a social setting where detail, improvisation and collective energy can register at close range. The event’s identity comes from that meeting of an international musical language with local cultural infrastructure. It is a focused festival occasion: one community, one stage and a shared listening experience shaped by the circulation of jazz across the Loire valley.
Off Touraine Jazz Festival
The Off programme of Touraine Jazz Festival brings free concerts to the open-air stage at Montlouis-sur-Loire’s Village Gourmand. Artists and bands range across different jazz styles and eras, making discovery part of the experience across many musical languages. The informal setting gives audiences room to arrive, listen and move between sets while keeping careful listening central. Food stands place regional hospitality and local flavours beside the stage and turn the esplanade into a welcoming social meeting point. As the accessible counterpart to the festival’s indoor programme, the Off keeps jazz connected with public space, shared meals and the everyday cultural life of Montlouis for residents and travelling music lovers alike.
Akoda ft Géraldine Laurent at Festival Éclats d’Émail
At the Théâtre de l’Union in Limoges, Akoda joins saxophonist Géraldine Laurent in the orbit of Festival Éclats d’Émail, a jazz setting known for sustained dialogue with artists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine and beyond. The concert draws on Creole and Caribbean rhythms, improvisation and a long-running ensemble sound, giving the festival a bright meeting point between jazz writing and island-inflected movement. That continuity is the strongest angle: Eclats d’Email is not only booking a group, but following an artistic path across several years.
Endro Concert in Guilvinec: Celtic Harp Duo
Endro brings Celtic harp and guitar together in a close musical dialogue at Guilvinec. Klervi Rouyer and Neven Le Pennec shape pieces around travel and the sea, combining delicate melody with the harp’s lower register and the guitar’s rhythmic colour. Improvisation opens their Breton and Celtic foundations to touches of jazz, funk, South American and African sound.
Maisons-Laffitte Jazz Festival 2026
Maisons-Laffitte Jazz Festival 2026 runs from 19 to 28 June 2026 at Château de Maisons, Maisons-Laffitte, France. The listing identifies it as a jazz festival with live performances in Maisons-Laffitte.