Jazz à la Villette 2003

[Tom Storer]

The Jazz à La Villette festival, in Paris, has released a preliminary program for the 2003 edition, but without exact dates. They'll all take place in the La Villette complex with its four or five different venues, during the week of Friday September 5 to Sunday September 14, 2003.

The program gives the headliners and the grouping per night, but the exact dates will come later and the personnel isn't given yet for all of them. So far what they have is:

Elvin Jones Quintet
Paul Motian and the Electric Be-Bop Band
Jim Black Quartet

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Dianne Reeves
Patricia Barber
Dee Dee Bridgewater

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Michel Portal Quartet (Portal, reeds; Bojan Z, piano; Bruno Chevillon, bass; Eric Echampard, drums; plus guest Paolo Fresu, trumpet)
Henri Texier Strade Quintet (Texier, bass; Christophe Marguet, drums; François Corneloup, soprano and baritone sax; Sébastien Texier, alto sax and clarinet; Gueorgui Kornazov, trombone)
Louis Sclavis Trio (Sclavis, clarinets; Marc Ducret, guitar; Jim Black, drums)

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John Scofield Trio (w/ Swallow & Bill Stewart)
Joe Zawinul Syndicate
Bill Carrothers/Bill Stewart duo

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Sophia Domancich Trio
Tomasz Stanko Quintet
Petit orchestre de Laurent Dehors (arrangements of Glenn Miller)

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Cam
Rubin Steiner
Nils Petter Molvaer
Sidsel Endresen
Wibutee
(apparently a jazz + DJ sort of thing)

[Douglas]

Thanks for posting this, Tom.

I was tempted to see Elvin Jones in Tokyo at new year, but the thought of 80 bucks a head soon dissuaded me. Maybe this time.