Jazz on the French Riviera (and other entertainment too)

Jazz and other Entertainment

Sidney Bechet (1897-1959)

Bechet's style of playing clarinet and soprano sax dominated many of the bands that he was in.
He played lead parts that were usually reserved for trumpets and was a master of improvisation.
Bechet summered many years in Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. A statue there, presented by the city of New Orleans, commemorates his life.

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Barney Wilen	Dizzy Gillespie	Duke Ellington	Jazz on the Riviera started in the 1920's and really became popular in the 1950's. When Sydney Bechet was married in 1950 in Juan-les-Pins, most of the jazz greats journeyed to the Riviera for the wedding. The jazz festival in Nice has been going on longer than the Newport Jazz Festival.
Lionel Hampton	Louis Armstrong	Miles Davis

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American GIs went to France in World War 1 and brought the new music with them. New French words appeared almost as rapidly: rag-time became "le temps de chiffon", while "swinguer" and "le big band" entered French dictionaries.

Between the wars, more Americans followed with their jazz. During this time, the Riviera stopped being a sedate Winter resort and turned into a cool Summer resort. Many African-American jazz musicians came too because of the warm and friendly reception of the French people.

Because the Riviera is an "outdoors" place, the "jazz festival" was born. In France, there are over 250 jazz festivals: most in July and August, and most in the French Riviera.

Jazz-à-Juan at Juan-les-Pins is in a setting of 100-year-old pine trees and with the moonlit Mediterranean in the background. When this event began in 1963, the mayor was so astonished by the "hippie" audience, that he bussed them out of town; but they walked back.

The Roman arena in Nice has been an "entertainment center" for 2,000 years, but never anything as big as the 8-day jazz festival. About 50,000 people watch 75 concerts by 500 artists.

Hyères celebrates the fact that the reeds produced from local canes – Rico - are prized by the world’s finest musicians. Therefore, it's festivcal is called "Festival de l’Anche" (reed)

Here's a list of some of the jazz festivals on the French Riviera:

Barcelonette Beaulieu La Ciotat Draguignan (in the "back country") Juan-les-Pins Menton Nice Porquerolles (It's on an island!) "a beautiful "perched village" near St Tropez St.-Raphaël La Seyne Toulon

The best writer about Jazz on the Riviera is Ted Jones

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