Festival Jazz à la Villette

Jazz at La Villette returns to celebrate the end of summer with its open, demanding and joyful jazz-funk line.

This 24th edition opens beautifully with Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest led by Jules Buckley: for two consecutive evenings at La Grande Halle, the 50 musicians of this all-terrain Dutch orchestra give symphonic grandeur to the famous groove of the New York-based group.

Another highlight: a creation in homage to visionary soul poet Gil Scott-Heron by Brian Jackson, his former musical director, and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def). The English scene is magnificently represented this year. alto.

To these infinite variations and hybridizations of Great Black Music are added the engaged spoken word of Aja Monet; the Creole sound of the collective The Getdown, led by Arnaud Dolmen and Laurent Coulondre; the Vincent Segal-Roberto Fonseca duo; the return of Émile Parisien and Yaron Herman alongside Linda May Han Oh and Prabhu Edouard… Fans of more intimate formats are invited to discover the off-the-beaten-path proposals concocted under the banner Under The Radar.