FROM PARIS WITH JAZZ: A journey of Jazz music from America to Paris of 1945
Wed 18 May
|Technopolis 20
Alliance Française de Limassol in collaboration with the French Institute of Cyprus and sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, present the music performance “From Paris with Jazz” at Technopolis 20 garden.
Time & Location
18 May 2022, 20:00
Technopolis 20, Nikolaou I. Nikolaidi Ave, Paphos, Cyprus
Guests
About the Event
Alliance Française de Limassol in collaboration with the French Institute of Cyprus and sponsored by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, present the music performance “From Paris with Jazz” at Technopolis 20 garden, on Wednesday, 18th of May 2022, at 8pm.
During 1945, important American jazz composers (such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gilespie, Miles Davis) took refuge, from the racial discrimination in America, in France. This had as a result to meet other great musicians also persecuted from other countries but also French nationals (such as Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and more), all having as a common language the one of jazz music.
The concert will present the result of these meetings, the influence of French culture in its development and is addressed to an audience both familiar and not with jazz and “gypsy jazz” music, presenting hidden musical diamonds, the history…