Jammin'Juan - the other Jazz stage ai Juan-les-Pins

Created out of a desire to help young jazz artists get the attention of professionals, Jammin’Juan gives over 21 selected groups the opportunity to perform during 4 days...
A show of the young generation of jazz on two showcase (35 minutes concerts) stages and one main stage in the Conference centre of Juan-les-Pins, and each evening, one Jam'Session, open to all.
Carefully selected by a jury from different horizons, the bands presented play equally varied jazz...
Come and discover them...

11-08 : Momi Maiga
NIO means soul in Mandinka, the maternal language of young Senegalese musician, singer and composer Momi Maiga. The kora and his voice convey his thoughts on human values. Alongside Catalan percussionist Aleix Tobias Sabater, the excellent Marçal Ayats on cello and Mexican violinist Carlos Montfort, the NIO project becomes magic for all the senses. A dynamic and constant dialogue between cultures. Casamance, Mexico and Catalonia mingle in a sea of transcontinental sounds and rhythms that surprise at every turn.
Momi Maiga’s warm voice dances between the twenty-two strings of the Kora, the majestic bow of the cello, the delicate, almost transparent sounds of the percussion and the multiple sound effects of the violin. The result is a project that is dynamic, energetic, vibrant, powerful and profound all at once. The soul of the show is brought to life by the presence of the four musicians together on stage, captivating the audience in an instant.

11-09 : Jozefinn'Austral View
“Music “panaustral”, which invites to escape, beyond borders. A splendid singular universality.”

Imagined in 2008 by Jean-Pierre JOZÉFINN’, bandleader, the project took off in 2013 thanks to the unwavering support of the Reunion cultural company F.A.T.A.K. (Fenet Artistik pou Tradision é Aksion Kültürel).
JAV offers a true musical, cultural panorama of South-West Indo-Ocean region and southern Africa. The idea of bringing these countries together is to bring a new stone to South West Indo Oceanic and Southern African music because the musicians of JAV come from an extraordinary cultural area with countless musical riches. Bringing together the positive energies of this region, and thus transcending a cultural potential, still to be discovered and made known, can only strengthen the relevance of such a proposal; the concept of musical syncretisms takes on its full meaning here in the interaction between the musical repertoires maloya, séga, marrabenta, nicketsche, salegy, tsapiky….
This project goes beyond the mere musical framework, it also carries a humanist message where tolerance, respect, openness to others are essential. Each musician feels invested with this mission, each is a cultural ambassador of his country.

11-10 : Alexandre Cavalière quartet
At the age of 12, Alexandre Cavaliere met Didier LOCKWOOD who invited him to Paris and launched his career on a high.
In 1998, fate gave Alexandre this boost by placing Didier LOCKWOOD and Babik REINHARDT on his way:
“These two great musicians were then in Brussels for the Django d’Or. Alexandre, meanwhile, is rehearsing for an evening at the Royal Windsor Hotel with his father, who leads the band “Jazzy
Strings”. A few notes are enough for Didier LOCKWOOD, Babik REINHARDT and Frank HAGEGE to detect the talent hidden under the hands of this violinist. What was their surprise when they opened the club door to discover that an 11-year-old was holding the violin?” Amazed by so much virtuosity and precocity, they decided to invite Alexandre to the Django d’Or in Brussels and then in Paris where success is immediate… brilliant!
Then everything happens naturally. Alexandre roams the international stages with his father’s band and collects an impressive list of performances. His television and radio contributions are multiplying.
Today, he comes back with a new project of which he is the leader “Alexandre Cavaliere – Manouche Moderne” in compositions that mix the gypsy music dear to his heart (gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt) the idiom be-bop and modern jazz through influences such as those of Dorado Schmitt or Biréli Lagrène.

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