The composer and guitarist Marc Ducret follows his journey with rare endurance: battered by the Covid-19, Lady M, his chamber opera for countertenor, soprano and small jazz formation (rock, contemporary) finds at Jazzdor, in Strasbourg, the stage and the perfect means. It was Sunday, November 6, and the date will mark the history of the orchestra.
The Jazzdor festival, which is held until Friday November 18, condenses a year of musical activities: spaces between, diversity, confrontations, everything that sums up the career of Marc Ducret, very singular guitarist, great leader, essential composer.
First marathon weekend, let’s resume. Saturday, November 5: “It’s true that here it’s a jazz audience…”, launches the soprano of Vox, David Chevallier’s group, before attacking a Purcell program with Chevallier sauce. Or how to screw up thirty years of Jazzdor philosophy in a pirouette…
The jazz public knows Purcell and Monteverdi, but faithful to Jazzdor in this, it is ready for any diversion
Come on, no big deal… The jazz public knows Purcell and Monteverdi, but faithful to Jazzdor in this, it is ready for any diversion. Could the same be said of Purcell’s audience? Basta! We thought that time of the ragpickers was well over. Since 2004, David Chevallier, it is the art of the crossing learned at Laurent Dehors: the circulation between the forms, between the currents, the transversality, traboules and cross roads. Purcell, by a high-flying vocal trio (Elise Dabrowski and the amazing David Linx complete it), derived by Chevallier’s guitar. Great adventure…
Second part, the Killing Popes (driven by drummer Oliver Steidle and Dan Nicholls from the top of his keyboard) invite Claudia Solal – formidable – and Marc Ducret – he never disappoints. Free? Noisy pop? Punk-rock? metal drone? Weird electro? Many tracks, in the excellent breviary of Jazzdor (Stéphane Ollivier). As always, the truth comes from the scene.
Young Berlin scene
On Sunday 6, it’s off again for a ride, with the quartet KUU!, a pure product of the young Berlin scene: “An explosive and provocative postmodern musical universe” (always the little red book of the festival in hand). Free rock or heavy jazz? Typical response: “It’s just music with different cross-influences in our lives. »
Well… That said, they are very funny, the KUU! Looking like Chet Baker at 24, Christian Lillinger has a talent for rebounding with chopsticks which he uses and abuses. One of the guitarists looks like Rock Hudson in a Douglas Sirk melodrama; the other to Vincent Mahey like two drops of water – that said, if you don’t know Vincent Mahey, prince of sound engineers, that doesn’t really help you. Jelena Kuljic, the singer in a kilt, comes to us from Serbia.
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