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La nuit bleue du jazz

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!

Représentations

From Saturday 5 July 2025 at 8.00 pm to Sunday 6 July 2025 at 6.20 am

Tickets

                                          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.-

Concert 1 | 20h00-21h00 | Wonderland - Daniel García trio
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.

Concert 2 | 21h-22h | Sebastián Volco Trio

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.

Concert 3 | 22h00-23h00 | Aga Khan Master Musicians with Vincent Peirani and Vincent Segal
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.

Concert 4 | 23h00-00h00 | Knobisous - Knobil
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.

Concert 5 | 00h00-01h00 | Carillon - Charlotte Planchou & Clément Simon
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.

Concert 6 | 02h00-03h00 | Keith Jarret's Köln Concert - François Mardirossian
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!

Concert 7 | 03h30-04h30 | Trio Equinox
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. 

Concert 8 | 05h00-6h20 | Pulse - Shani Diluka

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.