– Nova Jazz without fanfare but in trumpet
The festival puts this year the brass in the spotlight, the opportunity to take the breath of three instrumentalists of the Yverdonnois meeting.
From Thursday, the festival New Jazz d’Yverdon-les-Bains highlights the trumpet. In the history of jazz, the instrument has known its hours of glory, especially for soloists carrying the melody in the tumult of an ensemble thanks to the brilliance of its sounds. Bop, cool jazz and all the variations imagined by Miles Davis, one of the greatest heroes of this brass, have further magnified it even if, in the collective imagination, its central place returned more and more often to saxophone, despite Enrico Rava or Nils Petter Molvaer. For the past ten years, the trumpet has returned to center stage, thanks to musicians like Avishai Cohen, Ambrose Akinmusire, Christian Scott, but also thanks to women, like the French Airelle Besson. What are the backgrounds of today’s trumpeters? Answers from three artists scheduled for Nova Jazz this weekend.