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Lisa Cat-Berro/Rhoda Scott, City of the rising sun

Airelle Besson, Escapade

Anne Paceo, Les Châteaux de Sable

Julie Saury, Laissez-moi

Rhoda Scott, R+ R

Sophie Alour, I wanna move

Ray Charles, What'd I Say

Rhoda Scott All Star Ladies in La Villette

Jazz à la Villette 2018

Jazz
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Cast

Rhoda Scott — Organist

Sophie Alour — Saxophonist

Lisa Cat-Berro — Saxophonist

With:

Julie Saury — Drummer

Julien Alour — Trumpeter

Géraldine Laurent — Saxophonist

Program notes

Born in New Jersey in 1938, the American organist and singer Rhoda Scott was first spotted in Harlem by Count Basie and later in France by Eddie Barclay, with whom she quickly began a recording streak. She has been living in France for half a century and is the ambassador of the Hammond organ in Europe. Popularised in jazz by Jimmy Smith, this instrument, traditionally found in black churches, migrated to the world of jazz and soon revealed its wonderful, singular sound.

Rhoda is also the pioneer of a movement to feminize the international jazz scene and, since 2004, she has surrounded herself with the best instrumentalists – as at this edition of the 2018 Jazz à la Villette Festival. She is joined by the drummers Anne Paceo and Julie Saury, trumpeter Julien Alour and saxophonists Géraldine Laurent, Lisa Cat-Berro and Sophie Alour. The title of their album, We Free Queens, sets the tone.

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