Festival Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés was founded in 2001 by Joël Le Roy, Frédéric Charbaut, and Donatienne Hantin.{{Cite news, date=2021-05-27, title=Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés joue en mode virtuel, language=fr, work=Le Monde.fr, url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/05/27/jazz-a-saint-germain-des-pres-joue-en-mode-virtuel_6081720_3246.html, access-date=2021-07-06 It has been held annually in May (and early June) in the traditional intellectual district

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in Paris. The performances take place in public places and streets as well as indoor and are partly free (like a vocal jazz concert on Place Saint-Germain-des-Près). Other venues are for example the Kirche von Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Théâtre National de l’Odéon and the

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Music shop in

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, the Sunset and Sunside Jazz Club in the Rue des Lombards, various institutes, cultural houses, hotels and shops. There are also exhibitions, and even a Swing-Ball (Grand Bal Swing) with clothes from the 1950s. In 2013 musicians like Stéphane Huchard,

Biréli Lagrène Biréli Lagrène (born 4 September 1966) is a French jazz guitarist who came to prominence in the 1980s for his Django Reinhardt–influenced style. He often performs in swing, jazz fusion, and post-bop styles. Biography Lagrène was born in So ...

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Philip Catherine Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz guitarist. Biography Philip Catherine was born in London, England, to an English mother and Belgian father, and was raised in Brussels, Belgium. His grandfather was a violinist in the ...

Boulou Ferré Boulou Ferré (born Jean-Jacques Ferret, 24 April 1951) is a French virtuoso jazz guitarist, composer, arranger, and improviser. He is the brother of Elios Ferré, also a jazz musician, with whom he has recorded widely. His repertoire includes ja ...

), Thierry Maillard,

Didier Lockwood Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French violinist. He played in the French rock band Magma in the 1970s, and was known for his use of electric amplification and his experimentation with different sounds on the electri ...

Paolo Fresu Paolo Fresu ( sc, Pàulu; born 10 February 1961) is an Italian jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player, as well as a composer and arranger of music. Career Born in Berchidda, Sardinia, he picked up the trumpet at the age of 11, and played in the ban ...

, Manu Dibango, Édouard Ferlet,

Trilok Gurtu Trilok Gurtu (born 30 October 1951) is an Indian percussionist and composer whose work has blended the music of India with jazz fusion and world music. He has worked with Terje Rypdal, Gary Moore, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Joe Zawinul, M ...

Mina Agossi Mina Agossi (6 January 1972, Besançon) is a French singer-songwriter. Biography Agossi, whose mother is from France and whose father is from Benin, began her career as the protégé of Archie Shepp. In her youth, she lived with her mother, a ...

, Paco Séry,

Michel Portal Michel Portal (born 27 November 1935) is a French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He plays both jazz and classical music and is considered to be "one of the architects of modern European jazz". Early life Portal was born in Bayonne on ...

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Monty Alexander Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander (born 6 June 1944) is a Jamaican jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis ...

among others appeared on the scenes. There is a separate series of ''Jazz au féminine'' and events for young people (Tremplin jeunes talents) with a competition prize. The concerts of the newcomer competition are freely accessible. Saint-Germain connects to the modern jazz tradition from the time of the existentialist movement at the end of the 1940s and early 1950s with many exiled Jazzmusikers from the USA who settled in Paris. The founders are Joël Le Roy, Frédéric Charbaut and Donatienne Hantin. Charbaut has the artistic direction.

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External links

Official website
6th arrondissement of Paris Jazz festivals in France Music in Paris Events in Paris Music festivals established in 2001

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