Jazz is a world. A land of shifting borders, where tradition and invention, distant rhythms and intimate languages meet. At La Cité Bleue, we're devoting an entire night to it - from 8pm to dawn - with eight concerts, divided between the main hall and the convivial Arcade46 space. Visionary pianists, inner voices, Mediterranean rhythms, mixed heritages and electro-acoustic beats... La nuit bleue du jazz is an invitation to listen deeply, to discover and to marvel. It's a free and curious sensory journey, open to everyone!
From Saturday 5 July 2025 at 8.00 pm to Sunday 6 July 2025 at 6.20 am
Single area
Forfait all night 100.-
Concerts before midnight
Full price 30.-
Reduced price (AVS/AI/Youth/etc.) 20.-
Free concerts at 9.00 pm and 11.00 pm
Concerts after midnight
Full price 20.-
Reduced price (AVS/AI/Youth/etc.) 15.-
La Cité Bleue – 20h00-21h00
Wonderland – Daniel García trio
“A piano wonderland of moods and colours. Approachable, subtle and deep.” (UK Jazz News)
Daniel García, piano and voice / Reinier “El Negrón”, double bass / Michael Olivera, percussions and voice
Over the last ten years, Spanish pianist Daniel García and his trio have established themselves as one of the most important representatives of jazz in their home country. They have given over 300 concerts in Europe and as far afield as Japan. His third ACT album, Wonderland, features a trio of piano, drums and double bass that is remarkably tight and dynamic, with a highly personal style influenced by modern jazz, Mediterranean, Caribbean and Middle Eastern music.
Arcade46 – 21h00-22h00 – CONCERT GRATUIT
Sebastián Volco Trio
Sebastián Volco, piano and electronic instruments/ Pablo Della Maggiora, acoustic and electronic percussion / Pablo Agudo López, violin and guitar
An alliance between tradition and innovation, this project is a marriage between Sebastián Volco’s piano and electronic instruments, Pablo Agudo López’s violin and guitar, and Pablo Della Maggiora’s acoustic percussion. Sebastián Volco has created this new trio to play his new album The relentless advance of stupidity and a selection of music from his extensive career. His original compositions draw on both Argentine roots and 20th and 21st century popular music, with a touch of classical music.
La Cité Bleue – 22h00-23h00
Aga Khan Master Musicians with Vincent Peirani and Vincent Segal
Basel Rajoub, saxophone and duclar / Feras Charestan, kanoun / Yurdal Tokcan, oud / Vincent Peirani, accordion / Vincent Ségal, cello
This concert brings together five exceptional musicians in a dialogue between oriental tradition and jazz improvisation. From the prestigious Aga Khan Programme for Music, Basel Rajoub (saxophone, duclar), Feras Charestan (kanoun) and Yurdal Tokcan (oud) are bearers of ancestral musical knowledge, which they revisit with a resolutely contemporary expressive freedom. Joining them are two key figures on the European jazz scene: accordionist Vincent Peirani and cellist Vincent Segal, renowned for their ability to build bridges between genres and bring together the most contrasting musical languages. This summit meeting promises a sensitive and refined journey at the crossroads of cultures.
Arcade46 – 23h00-00h00 – CONCERT GRATUIT
Knobisous – Knobil
Louise Knobil, bass and vocals / Chloé Marsigny, bass clarinet / Vincent Andreae, drums
Knobil is a French-language, post-bop, spangled jazz chanson project created by Lausanne-based double bassist, singer and composer Louise Knobil. Influenced by Esperanza Spalding, Charles Mingus and Boris Vian, she uses her double bass and her voice to share her musical diary of polyamory, sleep deprivation and pesto recipes. The artist performs her compositions accompanied by her knodisciples: Chloé Marsigny on bass clarinet and Vincent Andreae on drums.
La Cité Bleue – 00h00-01h20
Carillon – Charlotte Planchou & Clément Simon
Charlotte Planchou, voice / Clément Simon, piano
Carillon, a project full of finesse and clarity, carried by the voice of Charlotte Planchou with the complicity of Clément Simon on piano. Together, they take us on a nocturnal journey where jazz mingles with echoes of traditional song, in an intimate and poetic style. Charlotte Planchou’s voice, at once clear, deep and inhabited, intertwines with Clément Simon’s delicate phrasing, between suspended gentleness and bursts of energy. This nocturnal recital, bordering on a daydream, unfurls a palette of subtle and bewitching emotions.
La Cité Bleue – 02h00-03h00
Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert – François Mardirossian
François Mardirossian, piano
On 24 January 1975, Keith Jarrett improvised alone at the piano at the Cologne Opera House, a piece of music that would become one of the best-selling records in the history of jazz. In just over an hour, the entire history of music is summoned: jazz, of course, but also baroque music, minimalism and pop music. Fifty years on, this improvisation has become a classic, but has hardly ever been played live. Rediscover a new version of this timeless masterpiece in its entirety!
La Cité Bleue – 03h30-04h30
Trio Equinox
Elodie Mam’s, vocals & piano / Noé Desmares, bass / Sabri Belaid, drums
The young Lyon-based Equinox Trio, led by talented singer-pianist Elodie Mam’s, unveil a bouquet of original compositions, with warm, frivolous colours and sparkling, mischievous rhythms. For the past seven years, Elodie, a graduate of the Lyon Conservatoire in piano and jazz singing, has been composing a musical garden full of flowers, combining meditative and unbridled energy, inspired by nature. Her gentle voice and pianistic phrasing, worthy of Hiromi Uehara, blossom within a striking rhythm section: Sabri Belaid on drums and Noé Desmares on bass. Together, they hit the road to share a music full of virtuosity, gaiety and promise, which incidentally won them the Jazz au Sommet springboard last spring.
La Cité Bleue – 05h00-6h20
Pulse – Shani Diluka
In Pulse, Shani Diluka offers a poetic and musical journey at dawn, where the rigour of Bachian counterpoint dialogues with the vibrant transparency of minimalist music. From Bach to Glass, from Cage to Meredith Monk, via the jazz harmonies of Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, this programme weaves a spellbinding tapestry of sound, between inner intensity and cosmic pulse. In this sensitive, meditative journey, the pianist blends repertoire, new works and texts by Patti Smith, Kerouac and Camus, giving voice to a humanity in search of beauty, light and meaning. A suspended hour and twenty minutes, where music and poetry come together to welcome the dawn.