Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall and Anne Paceo are on the program for the 2022 edition of the international jazz festival which will take place at five sites in Marseille.
Pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Diana Krall … the international jazz festival of the five continents in Marseille on Thursday unveiled the headliners of its 2022 edition which will be held at five prestigious sites in France’s second city.
After a blank season in 2020 due to Covid and a spectacular rebound in 2021, with 92% occupancy over 54 evenings despite a limited capacity, the five continents jazz festival, created in 2000, hopes to confirm from 7 to July 23, 2022 its dynamic of “success” with an attractive scene.
Faithful to their commitment in favor of the diversity of cultures and the parity of performers, its organizers put on the bill men and women of the French and especially international jazz scene after two years of estrangement due to the Covid.
Foreign and French artists
Fans will thus find on July 19 one of the monuments of the history of jazz, the American pianist, keyboardist and composer Herbie Hancock, 81, who had already set the Marseille scene on fire in 2017, and on July 21, the singer and Canadian pianist, Diana Krall, 57, representative of international mainstream jazz.
On the French side, the multi-award-winning drummer and composer Anne Paceo, 37, will defend on July 19 her new album “SHAMANES” (release scheduled for spring) inspired by sacred songs from around the world, and the “Charley Rose Trio” (alto sax, piano- keyboards, drums), will defend on July 21 an expressionist brewing jazz ranging from rhapsody to blues through ballads.
The Mucem and the gardens of the Palais Longchamp
Five emblematic places in Marseille will host performances including the gardens of the Palais Longchamp, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations “Mucem” at the end of the Old Port, the “Vieille Charité”, the “Abbaye Saint-Victor” “and the green theater” Silvain “, on the corniche.
Subsidized by the city, the department, the region and the metropolis, the Marseille festival which brings together more than 30,000 spectators each summer, indicated that it will create an offer at 15 euros for those under 18 years old intended to broaden and rejuvenate its public.
In addition to concerts, the festival will organize, as every year, various activities around jazz in the city, with projects in 16 schools.
The large Marseille library “l’Alcazar”, partner of the festival, will present the exhibition “40 jazz bubbles” produced for the 40th anniversary of the “Jazz à Vienne” festival, with original boards by 40 contemporary designers from Comics answered by texts from around forty writers.
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