MUSICAL SIESTA

This year, our selection of vinyl records, drawn from the Paulette and Jean-Marie Masse Collection, takes us to the crossroads of Jazz and Bossa Nova. This style of Brazilian music, born from samba and influenced by Cool Jazz, is now regarded as a jazz style in its own right. Bossa Nova emerged in 1958 with the record “Chega de Saudade”, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes and music by Antônio Carlos Jobim, performed by João Gilberto.

In 1959, the release of Marcel Camus’s film “Black Orpheus” helped popularise the style, but it was in 1963, with the album “Getz & Gilberto” by Stan Getz and João Gilberto and the song “Garota de Ipanema” (“The Girl from Ipanema”), that it won over audiences around the world.
Artists from other musical horizons then brought Bossa Nova into their own repertoires: Ella Fitzgerald with the album “Ella Abraça Jobim”, Frank Sinatra with “Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim”, and also Charlie Byrd, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz and Dizzy Gillespie, who each embraced this new language while imprinting it with their own identity. Stretch out comfortably in our deckchairs and let yourself drift into our tropical jazz siesta!

By reservation. For more information, please contact the BFM de l’Aurence : 05 55 05 02 85.