As part of the “off” of the Nîmes métropole jazz festival, a concert in an incredible setting.
What a setting! For its “off” concert on Sunday afternoon, the Nîmes métropole jazz festival made a stop at the Nîmes Train Museum. A bright idea from Laurent Duport, president of the Jazz 70 association but also a civil architect : “As part of the PPRI work, a nearby building was destroyed. This revealed a heritage that we did not suspect. We were able to see the rotunda (railway building where the locomotives are stored, Editor’s note) and I I said that doing a concert here could help connect jazz with this still confidential heritage.”
Not just any type of jazz: boogie-woogie and its famous jerky rhythm, straight from train travel (bogie, in English, designates the carriage on which the axles are fixed). In the large hangar, between two superb locomotives, a 141 R 1298 and a 140 C 27 which arrived the day before for work (it dates from 1917 and is still in circulation!), Charlie Olympe’s quintet (piano-singing, guitar, trombone, double bass drums) made its rolling boogie resonate. A first class trip!
