PROGRAMME 2024


AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUARTET
5 SEPTEMBRE 2024 - 20:30

IMMANUEL WILKINS QUARTET
7 OCTOBRE 2024 - 20:30

JAMES BRANDON LEWIS
18 NOVEMBRE 2024 - 20:30


Château Théâtre Descas
5 quai de Paludate
Bordeaux

https://chateaudescas.fr

C'est un grand plaisir pour moi de vous annoncer ce qui pourrait être l’événement-phare de la rentrée dans la ville : "Jazz And Wine Bordeaux / New York is Now !" au Château Descas, 5 Quai de Paludate à Bordeaux. 

Dans ce lieu mythique et historique, avec une superbe salle de 600 places entièrement rénovée au 1er étage - et 2 superbes salons / bars pour recevoir le public au rez-de-chaussée, nous accueillerons chaque mois de Septembre à Mai un magnifique concert avec les musicien(n)es de la jeune génération la plus créative de New York ! 

Sachez que les commodités d' accès sont nombreuses avec : 

- Tram (station Sainte-Croix à 100m) 
- Parking Paludate (au pied de la Méca - à 400 m) 
- Gare Saint-Jean (1 seule station de tram, Tauzia - 4mn oà pied - 4 mn)

La venue de tels artistes s’annonce déjà exceptionnelle avec pour le concert d’ouverture : 

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUARTET JEUDI 5 SEPTEMBRE - 20:30 

Ce trompettiste exceptionnel vient tout juste d’être désigné par certainement le plus grand magazine Jazz au monde - DOWNBEAT - "Trompettiste de l’Année 2024", et son dernier disque "Owl Song", comme "Disque de l’Année 2024" par ce même magazine ! 

Un tel artiste a été une rare et magnifique opportunité pour lancer "Jazz à Descas / New York is Now !", et nous espérons que vous viendrez nombreux. 

Vous le savez, Jazz And Wine Bordeaux est un projet qui appartient à tous depuis sa naissance en 2006 au sein des plus beaux châteaux du Bordelais, et cette nouvelle extension en centre-ville et à l'année est déjà porteuse des plus belles promesses. 

De nombreuses surprises sont prévues ! Et depuis Keith Jarrett, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Ron Carter ou Joe Lovano, Jack Dejohnette ou Ravi Coltrane, vous savez qu'il n'y a pas de promesses en l'air !

Dans l’attente de vous recevoir. 

À très vite. 

Pour Jazz And Wine Bordeaux, 
Jean-Jacques Quesada

https://billetterie-chateau-descas.tickandlive.com/

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUARTET

5 SEPTEMBRE 2024 - 20:30

Château Théâtre Descas, Bordeaux


Described by NPR Music as “one of the most acclaimed jazz artists of his generation, a trumpeter of deep expressive resources and a composer of kaleidoscopic vision,” Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics. His 2018 release Origami Harvest features rapper Kool A.D. with the Mivos String Quartet and was named a top album of the year by The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Los Angeles Times and more.
The Oakland, California native and Blue Note recording artist has made consistently adventurous, enduring music with a committed band of dear friends: pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer Justin Brown, whose unforgettable chemistry is captured on the 2017 double album A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (“amazingly effective” – DownBeat). The quartet reaches new heights with their GRAMMY-nominated 2020 release on the tender spot of every calloused moment, featuring liner notes by the great Archie Shepp. On these and other releases, Akinmusire aspires to create richly textured emotional landscapes that tell the stories of the community, record the time and change the standard. While committed to the lineage of black invention and innovation, he is able to honor tradition without being stifled by it.
Akinmusire has received numerous composer commissions: from the Berlin Jazz Festival for “Mae Mae,” a suite based on Mattie May Thomas’s 1939 field recordings; from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Liquid Music Commission (for Origami Harvest); from The Kennedy Center for “Untitled,” featuring MacArthur Fellow Cécile McLorin Salvant and others; from the Hyde Park Jazz Festival Commission for “Banyan,” a work for 12- piece ensemble that builds on Ambrose’s interest in the role of the griot and mentor in social and jazz history; and the Monterey Jazz Festival Commission for “The Forgotten Places” featuring Salvant, Theo Bleckmann and quartet plus clarinet, cello, harp and guitar. More recently, Akinmusire has branched out as a composer and has begun creating music for film and television projects including, most notably, the new Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal series, “Blindspotting.”
Following his evocative 2007 debut Prelude... To Cora on the Fresh Sound label, Akinmusire joined Blue Note in 2011 with when the heart emerges glistening, produced by Jason Moran and featuring Raghavan and Brown with Gerald Clayton on piano and Walter Smith III on tenor sax. Akinmusire’s lyricism, distinctive harmonic language and rich sense of dynamic and timbral contrast set him apart. Highly virtuosic in execution, the music had a pointed social dimension as well: “My Name Is Oscar” initiated what became a theme linking all of Akinmusire’s studio albums, in which the names of murdered African Americans are recited and remembered with dignity. On the imagined savior is far easier to paint (2014), hailed as “a gorgeous, moving album” in JazzTimes, “Roll Call for Those Absent” took up the matter of injustice once again, as did “Free, White and 21” on Origami Harvest and the stark solo Fender Rhodes finale “Hooded Procession (read the names outloud)” on calloused moment.

imagined savior found Akinmusire broadening his sonic and stylistic reach as well by incorporating guitarist Charles Altura, the Osso String Quartet and singers/cowriters Becca Stevens, Theo Bleckmann and Cold Specks, each with their own widely diverging vocal sound. (Akinmusire reciprocated, playing on Cold Specks’ 2014 release Neuroplasticity.) On calloused moment, vocalist Genevieve Artadi of Knower sings original lyrics on Akinmusire’s “Cynical sideliners,” in an affecting duet with the leader on Rhodes. Percussionist/vocalist Jesus Diaz also contributes Yoruba vocals on the opening “Tide of Hyacinth.”
Akinmusire has performed as a featured soloist with Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues Big Band as well as AACM multireeds innovator Roscoe Mitchell in an intimate quartet setting at San Francisco’s The Lab (a two-night event documented on the live album Come and See What There Is to See). “Mr. Roscoe (consider the simultaneous),” from Famoudou Don Moye and Amina Claudine Myers), as well as calloused moment, finds Akinmusire honoring Mitchell and grappling on his own terms with lessons learned under Mitchell’s wing.
In addition to his five Blue Note outings, Akinmusire has made signal contributions to groundbreaking albums across a wide stylistic and genre-defying spectrum, including Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl and Brad Mehldau’s Finding Gabriel. He has collaborated with acclaimed pianist Kris Davis in duo and trio settings at the Vision Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival and elsewhere. He appears on Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 landmark To Pimp a Butterfly, on the closing track “Mortal Man.” In 2016 he was a featured soloist and composer with the WDR Big Band in Cologne, performing alongside pianist/arranger/conductor Orrin Evans. He played on Joni Mitchell’s 2014 release Love Has Many Faces, and in 2018 accompanied Chaka Khan, James Taylor and other luminaries honoring Mitchell in a gala concert documented on Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration. Other sideman highlights include recordings by Jack DeJohnette, Marcus Miller, Steve Coleman, and Terri Lyne Carrington. Akinmusire received his 2nd GRAMMY nomination --for “Best Improvised Solo”-- on Carrington’s 2022 release, New Standards Vol 1
In addition to winning the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2007 and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition the same year, Akinmusire has frequently topped the JazzTimes and Downbeat annual critics polls. He has received the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award (2014); Le Grand Prix de l’Académie du Jazz (2014); Germany’s ECHO Jazz Award (Instrumentalist of the Year/Brass); and The Netherlands’ Paul Acket Award. A sought-after educator as well, Akinmusire has taught at the Dave Brubeck Institute, Stanford Jazz Workshop, Musik-Akademie Basel, Banff Centre, Berklee College of Music (as Artist-in-Residence), Princeton University, McGill University, Indiana University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Southern California, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, New Zealand School of Music, Vriednden Antwerpen and more.
A graduate of Manhattan School of Music, Akinmusire lived for several years in New York before returning to the West Coast to attend the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in Los Angeles while also pursuing a master’s degree at USC’s Thornton School of Music. During another five-year stint in New York he performed with the likes of Vijay Iyer, Aaron Parks and Esperanza Spalding. He then returned to LA and joined the faculty at Thornton for two years before coming full circle: back to Berkeley, where he now resides with his family.
In 2023, Akinmusire was named the artistic director of the Herbie Hancock Institute.

https://www.ambroseakinmusire.com

IMMANUEL WILKINS QUARTET

7 OCTOBRE 2024 - 20:30

Château Théâtre Descas, Bordeaux


Alto saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins burst onto the musical scene in 2020 with the release of his Blue Note recording debut, Omega, featuring his longstanding quartet of Micah Thomas, Daryl Johns and Kweku Sumbry. Although just 22 at the time of its release, his quartet had already been together for over four years and their cohesiveness and musicality is reflected in both the maturity of Wilkins’sound and the sophistication and depth of his compositions. Accolades and press soon followed, including Omega being named the best new jazz release of 2020 by the New York Times; the best debut jazz album by NPR and being nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Jazz recording of 2020. The year ended on an even higher note, with Wilkins winning the prestigious Letter One Rising Stars Award.
Being a bandleader with a working group has allowed Wilkins to grow both as a composer and as an arranger and has led to  him receiving numerous commissions and grants  including:  The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Commission (2020); The Jazz Gallery Artist Residency Commission  (in collaboration with Sidra Bell Dance NY, 2020); The Kimmel Center Artist in Residence Commission Program (in collaboration with photographer Rog Walker and videographer David Dempewolf, 2020); The Roulette Emerging Artist Commission Program (2021); The South Arts Creativity Residency Grant ( with fellow saxophonist and mentor, Odean Pope, 2022) and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Grant (in collaboration with saxophonist Odean Pope and poet Herman Beavers, 2023). Wilkins constantly seeks out opportunities for creative connections with artists both within and outside the world of Jazz. The realm of visual arts is of particular interest to Wilkins. He has worked with the filmmakers Cauleen Smith and Ja’Tovia Gary; the sculptrice Kennedy Yanko; the painter Leslie Hewitt and the interdisclinary artist, Theaster Gates. These collaboarations have played a decisive role in his ever-expanding aesthetic vision.
Wilkins interest and passion for sharing and preserving jazz musical traditions has led him to continue to give back to his community and to present clinics and masterclasses at various educational institutions including: The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts, Yale University, The Consevatorium van Amsterdam, Basel Jazz Schule, The Faculty of Music in Belgrade, The Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and Oberlin to name just a few. He also teaches regulary at NYU and the School of Jazz at the New School in New York City.
In 2022, Wilkins released his sophomore album on Blue Note, The 7th Hand. Like his debut release, The 7th Hand topped numerous year-end lists including Jazzwise, NPR, The New York Times, The Financial Times and Jazz Times. 2022 also opened up new touring opportunities for Wilkins’ Quartet. They had the opportunity to tour extensively throughout the US, Canada and Europe including notable performances at the Montreal Jazz Festival, The Monterey Jazz Festival, Umbria, the Northsea, Pori Jazz, Newport, The Kennedy Center, The Library of Congress, SFJazz and the Elb Philharmonie.
In addition to touring as a leader Wilkins, continues to record and share the bandstand with both his peers and his longtime mentors including: Jason Moran, Kenny Barron, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Dylan, Solange, Joel Ross, Gerald Clayton and Lalah Hathaway to name just a handful.
In 2023, Wilkins was awarded with three Downbeat Critics Poll Awards: Best Alto Saxophonist, Best Risng Star Composer and Best Rising Star Group and in 2024 his quartet won the prize for best international live act of the year by the German Deutscher Jazz Preis.
Wilkins has a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from the Julliard School

http://www.immanuelwilkins.com

JAMES BRANDON LEWIS

18 NOVEMBRE 2024 - 20:30

Château Théâtre Descas, Bordeaux


 "When I listen to you, I listen to Buddah, I listen to Confucius... I listen to the deeper meaning of life. You are keeping the world in balance". Sonny Rollins à James Brandon Lewis 

Fondamentalement, que dire de plus sur le saxophoniste James Brandon Lewis après un tel compliment de la part de celui qui reste certainement le plus grand saxophoniste qui ait jamais vécu sur la planète Terre - l'immense Sonny Rollins ? 

 Juste l'essentiel, en attendant ce concert du 18 Novembre à Bordeaux qui s'annonce événementiel. Ce fils de pasteur, né à Buffalo, dans l'État de New York, fait partie de cette nouvelle génération afro-américaine qui veut plus que jamais redonner une dimension sociale à leur musique et, pour se faire, replonger de manière non-académique dans les racines les plus profondes des musiques noires - jusqu'aux blues du Mississippi et aux gospels du Sud. 

 Sans complexe, James Brandon Lewis veut associer à cet héritage ancestral ses expériences les plus récentes, telles son Trio avec Joe Lally et Brendan Canty, ex-membres du groupe de punk Fugazi, ses collaborations avec le poète Thomas Sayers Ellis, sa participation au collectif Heroes Are Gang Leaders, associant free-jazz, écrivains, actrices et autres champs artistiques, ou aussi le Trio dévastateur qu'il compose ave le bassiste Luke Stewart et le batteur Warren Trae CrudUp. 

 Là où d'autres verraient la fragmentation d'une oeuvre, on peut à l'inverse y voir plusieurs facettes d'une même oeuvre, réduite à son essence première. Et toujours la même quête d'une vérité essentielle. 

 Le "Red Lily Quintet" réunit à lui seul l'ensemble des intentions du saxophoniste, et constitue le bras armé de son dernier enregistrement - "For Mahalia, With Love", en hommage à la grande chanteuse de gospel Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972). Une femme noire dans une Amérique raciste... 

Tout d'abord, une formation sans instrument harmonique, et dont l'association des timbres la rend si fascinante : une contrebasse, un violoncelle, un cornet, une batterie, et un saxophone ténor. 

D'autre part, de manière plus intime, un retour à son enfance. Cette enfance bercée par les chants de sa grand-mère qui lui chantait ces mêmes gospels de Mahalia Jackson quand il s'agissait de l'endormir une fois le nuit venue. Entre-temps, d'autres sont venus lui chanter à l'oreille : John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler, William Parker, Wadada Leo Smith. 

Impossible donc pour lui de garder aujourd'hui ces prières dans leur forme originale, mais la nécessité essentielle de garder leur spiritualité intacte. C'est dans ce travail précis que James Brandon Lewis se révéle dans sa plus grande dimension artistique, qu'il transcende tous les genres musicaux, qu'il abolit les fontières esthétiques, qu'il relie l'histoire d'hier à celle d'aujourd'hui et de demain. 

C'est par ce travail précis qu'il veut définir une nouvelle humanité, "où chaque individu a la capacité de vivre libre et bénéficier des mêmes droit que les autres". Comme le disait donc Sonny Rollins, James Brandon Lewis se doit de garder notre monde en équilibre ! 

James Brandon Lewis, tenor sax 
Kirk Knuffke, cornet 
Tomeka Reid, cello 
Silvia Bolognesi, bass 
Chad Taylor, drums

https://jblewis.com