Jazzin'Nice, 70 years of jazz loving

Exhibition from July 7th to October 15th at the Masséna Museum, open from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 6pm, closed Thursday, 65 street of France, 06364 Nice, phone : 04.93.91.19.10

Since a century a deep relationship has been developed between the city of Nice and the jazz music. This music comes from the South of the United - States and own several meanings like speaking, or the slang, or the jasmine flower or may be the Bantu word "jaji" (dancing). Officially the jazz born in the Storyville borough (New - Orleans) and the Chicago Herald paper speaks about it for the first time in May 1rst 1916. Jazz mixes the songs and the music sing by African - Americans in the plantations or during ceremonies with European music (classical or military). The jazz player must know all the music technical but when he performs he must follow his own improvisation because jazz give a huge importance to creativity and spontaneous.

Lauryn Hill

Jazz arrives on the French Riviera with World War I when the American soldiers go there for their leaves. During the Roaring twenties the jazz will become the music of all the parties and the first world jazz festival will happen on the French Riviera in February 1948. All the famous stars of that time (Louis Armstrong, Claude Lutter, Stéphane Grapelli, Django Reinhardt) will perform in the Opera of Nice and the Festival will end with a jam in the famous Negresco hotel. Twenty three years after a festival is created for an unlimited period. This festival will be named "Grande parade de jazz" (1972 - 2010) and "Nice Jazz Festival" (2010 - ) and will be organize in the Cimiez Arenas and in the Verdure Theater. The Nice jazz Festival underlines talents and open itself to the musics in a peace spirit.

Louis Armstrong.

The Massena Museum, the Promenade or the invention of a city - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Exposition in the Massena Museum, 65 street of France, 06000 Nice, open all the days except thuersday to 10 am until 18 pm, phone : 04.93.91.19.10. Built between 1899 and 1901 the villa Massena is a

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Nice, the biginning of the glory - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Exhibition until the 5th of September 2016 at the Massena Museum, 65 rue de France, 06000 Nice, open from 10am to 6pm except on tuesday, phone : 04.93.91.19.10, fee : 6 €. The 2nd of February 179...

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Nice inside the history school - artetcinemas.over-blog.com

Exhibition from June 23rd to October 15th 2017 at the Masséna Museum, 65 rue de France, 06364 Nice, open everyday except Monday from 10am to 6pm, phone : 04.93.91.19.10 The Massena Museum explores...

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Musée Masséna - Wikipédia

En 1919, le fils de Victor Masséna, André Masséna, cède la propriété à la ville de Nice sous condition qu'on y aménage un musée et que le jardin soit ouvert au public. Le musée Masséna e...

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