BigBand der Deutschen Oper Berlin

In the nightclubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, musicians such as Miles Davis and Sidney Bechet met Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Boris Vian. Juliette Gréco was the undisputed muse of the bohemian movement – and for many jazz musicians from the USA, Paris became a place of longing beyond racial segregation and the McCarthy era.


The Deutsche Oper Berlin Big Band celebrates the spirit of those turbulent years and their music, in which French jazz of the wartime and pre-war period formed a unique fusion with chanson and the influence of bebop and modern jazz.


The program will feature compositions by French jazz and film music legend Michel Legrand, as well as pieces by Miles Davis, who made some of his most artistically important recordings in France.


Music by Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg will be on the program alongside pieces from the repertoire of the legendary Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band and texts by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.


Jazz de Paris

With music by Michel Legrand, Miles Davis, Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, and texts by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others


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