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The event finally returns to its classic form from April 1 to 9. Here’s something to convince you to brave the cold.
Young shoot of the London scene, Rosie Frater-Taylor is to be seen on Sunday April 3 at Next Step.
Pat Pascal
The return of Cully Jazz in its classic format
The cellars, the Chapiteau, the Next Step, the Temple… This is the “classic” Cully Jazz that we have known for a long time. However, the last edition in this form dates from 2019. The fault, of course, with the pandemic. So, we’re taking advantage of it this year – especially since the concerts are no longer subject to health restrictions. The 39th edition has eight days of festivities interspersed with a Monday break, from April 1 to 9. With, for the IN, international artists (Popa Chubby, Youn Sun Nah Quartet…) and Swiss talents (Flèche Love, Mario Batkovic…) for the OFF, a hundred free concerts in the village vaults and on an outdoor stage . Note that, on Fridays and Saturdays, direct trains traveling in the direction of Lausanne, Saint-Maurice and Friborg exceptionally stop at Cully and Grandvaux. Enjoy!
Wine served on tap
This year, on tap, there is no longer just beer but also white wine. Epesses 2019 (AOC Lavaux) from the Duboux estate. Le Cully Jazz has chosen this increasingly popular solution for Le Resto and Le Salon bars. Another novelty, in these two places on the Place d’Armes, festival-goers will be able to taste a sparkling wine, the Chassel’ice. Legend has it that at the Christmas market in Montreux, a poor bottle of Chasselas was forgotten on the counter of a chalet. After a harsh night and freezing temperatures, the latter had half turned into ice. The Chassel’ice was born. With the temperatures announced for the first weekend of the festival, the legend might well happen once more.
The new talents of the London scene
The Next Step is the future. The future is the English scene, with the arrival of two new talents to be discovered before anyone else: Rosie Frater-Taylor and Ebi Soda. The first (to be seen on Sunday April 3) is Londoner, is 22 years old and already has two records to her credit. Spotted by Gilles Peterson, she began with the drums before becoming a guitarist and singer and leaving her dad behind the drums on her 2nd album. In his music, jazz, folk, pop and soul as well as the influences of Joni Mitchell, Lewis Taylor or Emily King. The second (to be seen on Saturday April 9) is the name of a group of five boys from Brighton who play jazz as we like it, the one that grooves, hopping from hip-hop to electronic music. We lend them a post-punk ethic, we mostly heard trombone lines from these convinced anti-tradi.
My friend the DJ
“He’s cool as hell, my friend the DJ / It’s true that he’s a little crazy, my friend the DJ.” Hardly anyone remembers it, but it’s a refrain that François Valery sang in 1984. Four decades later, the DJs are still friends. Cully Jazz friends. In addition to those who perform at Next Step following the concerts (in particular the Belgian collective Food For Ya Soul navigating between deep house and hip-hop, on April 8), this year DJs will follow one another on the stage of the Club before and between concerts every weekend evening. Just to offer a chill atmosphere but still conducive to dancing. A Club that exists thanks to the support of the Friends of the Festival. It’s all a matter of friends.
Info and tickets at cullyjazz.ch
