July festival - Festival Puym'Jazz

Outdoors on the esplanade of the Citadel in Puymirol (with the possibility of withdrawing into the festival hall in case of bad weather)

Wednesday July 17 21h The Wonder Brass Band (Part 1) & The Sophisticated Ladies (Part 2)

The Wonder Brass Band (Part 1)

There are four of them: Eline on trombone, Sarah on soprano saxophone, Caroline on bassophone, and Wilma on bass drum and percussion.

Deliberately feminine, these musicians, with their different and atypical backgrounds, meet and influence each other to create a repertoire essentially composed of joyfully eclectic personal compositions with strong Latin-jazz-funky accents.

They brilliantly combine musical quality, energy, intelligence and humour. They play with each other and involve the audience with complicity in their stage performance. Cheerful, dynamic, catchy and surprising, they are as funny as they are committed and terribly endearing. They claim the ambition to invent quality popular music, thus creating a link between everyone by offering moments of sweetness and sharing the time of a concert. They make the show: these Toulouse girls !

www.wonderbrassband.fr

The Sophisticated Ladies (Part 2)

Rachel Madgidson (American trumpeter, percussionist) forms the group "Sophisticated Ladies Trio" with Paola Vera (British pianist of Venezuelan origin) and Laure Sanchez (double bass player from Bordeaux who won the 2016 Action Jazz Award). All three sing wonderfully with sensuality and great generosity.

Their story is similar to that of jazz: three different origins, three times more likely to mix influences! The result: a single harmonious whole. This trio was born from a desire to take full advantage of the possibilities of making vocal polyphonies while having in addition a complete piano, double bass and percussion trio. The three singers do both lead vocals and polyphonies and this gives a very rich show, sometimes intimate, sometimes very rhythmic. A resolutely optimistic music that serves a repertoire of playful songs, accessible to all.

The Sophisticated Ladies: it's pure happiness, magical moments, sensual music, a sophisticated and high quality concert performed by 3 charming musicians.

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Thursday July 18 21h Certains l'aiment chaud

Certains l'aiment chaud

With a nod to Billy Wilder's film "Some Like It Hot", proving that jazz was not only a matter for men and giving it a particular sensitivity was a challenge for the orchestra from its creation (in 1983), before it became an obvious choice.

"Some like it hot" draws its repertoire from the 1920s, a period of intense artistic activity. Their style is faithful to that of the orchestras of Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Louis Amstrong... Their swing is distilled with spirit, a combination of feminine delicacy and a relaxed and communicative enthusiasm. Their sound is recognizable thanks to the arrangements of Kiki Desplat (renowned cornet player). Her orchestrations highlight the qualities of each musician: the smooth sound of Sylvette's bass clarinet, Catherine's refined and tonic style on the washboard, Nathalie's dynamic playing on the banjo, Claude's lyrical flights on the bassophone.

"Some people like it hot" has long been bringing its share of "novelty" into the tradition and that's fine. The extent of their talent is obvious to you: no unnecessary frills, no free virtuosity demonstrations. We're going straight to the point. Through imaginative arrangements, they offer us some of the masterpieces of original jazz. These 5 Parisian ladies will take you away in an eloquent flow of good humour and cheer !

www.certainslaimentchaud.com

Friday July 19 21h Las Gabachas de la cumbia

Las Gabachas de la cumbia

Las Gabachas de la Cumbia take us on a journey to a musical universe in the colours of Latin America. Inspired by cumbia, a traditional Colombian music, these 7 musicians, bursting with energy, passion and generosity, revisit this repertoire in their own way. They thus propose a marriage between the sensitivity of Colombian standards and the intensity of their respective musical influences.

To make us dance, Las Gabachas combines harmonies of voices, congas, percussions, clarinet, saxophones, piano and bass. More than a concert, their show is an enchantment nourished by this pleasure of plural expressions, exchanges and intense complicity with the audience, in a warm and festive atmosphere.

These young women have many talents: musicians, dancers, singers, they know how to do everything, including setting the mood and having fun.