Biréli Lagrène - Elegant People

Biréli Lagrène, guitar Jean-Yves Jung, piano, Fender Rhodes William Brunard, upright bass Raphaël Pannier, drums La Seine Musicale continues its exploration, resonating with the affinities between jazz and world music, driven by a taste for diversity and discovery.

Beyond styles, transcending generational boundaries, its programming presents major international figures, reveals emerging talents and proposes unprecedented encounters.

So many invitations to enthuse to the brisk rhythms of swing, groove, and to share the euphoria of improvisation!

Although he continues to dazzle us with his phenomenal inventiveness and innate sense of swing, Biréli Lagrène today transcends pure virtuosity to reach a higher order of quality: as evidenced by his latest album "Elegant People".

This extraordinary musician gives his guitar a multi-directional turn where his protean genius manifests itself.

Expressing himself mainly acoustically, he reinvents some standards, revisits the roots of the blues, takes a detour through Brazil or indulges in moments of pure poetry.

He even allows himself to sublimate the composition from the Weather Report group that gives its title to this new opus, offering it a very personal twist.

Biréli Lagrène's return to La Seine Musicale is a unique opportunity to measure the journey of this totally intuitive musician, admired by his peers internationally: whether they are called Jaco Pastorius, John Scofield, George Benson or Jean-Luc Ponty...

all have recognised in him the absolute artist.