THE MORNING LIST
The Music section team offers you a selection of concerts and festivals all over France, a very partial reflection of a resumption of musical activity in the fields of rock, pop, jazz, music classical, soul, electro, chanson or so-called world music.
Nada Surf at the Bataclan, in Paris on May 30, and on tour in France until June 13
On March 11, 2020, five days before President Macron’s announcement of the first confinement, the American group Nada Surf gave two concerts in a row at La Cigale, in Paris, which are remembered. Postponed twice since (due to the health situation), the return to France of the American alternative rock trio, led by singer and guitarist Matthew Caws, gives the impression of symbolically closing – or so we hope – a strange parenthesis.
With a tour of nine dates (already passed by Caen, Nantes, Bordeaux…) including this Monday evening May 30 at the Bataclan, in Paris, and which continues in Grenoble on 31, Aix-en-Provence (1is June), Orléans (2) and Lille (13). Augmented on stage by a fourth member on guitar, Matthew Caws, Daniel Lorca (bass) and Ira Elliot (drums) have the advantage of drawing from a substantial reservoir of power pop classics accumulated since the mid-1990s, such as Always Love, Popular, Blonde On Blonde, Rushing… as well as those of their excellent last album, Never Not Together published in 2020. Frank Colombani
Bataclanin Paris, on May 30; The Beautiful Electricin Grenoble, on the 31st; 6MICin Aix-en-Provence, on 1is June ; L’Astrolabein Orleans, on the 2nd; The Aircraftin Lille, on the 13th. Opening act: John Vanderslice.
David Sanborn at La Seine Musicale, in Boulogne-Billancourt, on 1is June
For some, the American David Sanborn is the saxophonist who plays the main theme of the films of the cinematic crime series The lethal Weapon – music from the four films composed by Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton and Sanborn. For others, he is an instrumentalist on many rock and pop albums, including some of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Todd Rundgren, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Franks, Elton John, Steely Dan, Roger Waters… United States, viewers of the NBC channel also know him for having been the host of the musical program Night Music, from 1988 to 1990.
For others, he is one of the jazz soloists whose name is associated with those of Gil Evans, Larry Coryell, Jaco Pastorius, John McLaughlin, John Scofield… And whose important personal discography, since 1975, oscillates between classical jazz and advances towards pop, Latin jazz, a touch of funk. An often inventive improviser, sensitive in the register of the ballad, incisive on a fast tempo, David Sanborn will be at La Seine musicale, for his only concert in France this summer. With the excellent pianist Geoff Keezer, Ben Williams on double bass and drummer Billy Kilson. Sylvain Siclier
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