100 ans de Gatsby le Magnifique, Velours, velours — A kind of cabaret au 38Riv Jazz Club

Retro Jazz — Mélissa Lesnie, an Australian singer with a velvety voice, invites you on a nostalgic journey into the elegant world of Jazz Age jazz.

Scott Fitzgerald completed “The Great Gatsby” not in the United States, but on the French Riviera in 1924, imbuing his masterpiece with elegance and nostalgia, just as the “Jazz Age”—a term he had already coined two years earlier in another work—was being born. A century later, Mélissa Lesnie, an Australian singer with a velvety voice and retro charm, plunges us back into this world, lulled by the echoes of ragtime and the standards of hot jazz and Tin Pan Alley, featuring early successes by Gershwin and Irving Berlin. Alongside Jean-Baptiste Franc on piano, a true master of the 1920s style, Mélissa revives this golden twilight through foxtrots, charlestons, and blues from the Roaring Twenties—music one can easily imagine setting the rhythm for the high-society evenings of a certain Jay Gatsby.

Line-up: Melissa Lesnie: vocals; Jean-Baptiste Franc: piano

The 38Riv Jazz Club is an intimate venue in the heart of the Marais (38 rue de Rivoli, Paris 4e), dedicated to jazz and improvised music.