On Hold

Hey Hey Hey

well, life intervenes, and I'll be on tour for a while, so this blog will be on hold.

Meanwhile you can always click over on the right hand side of the screen to see our list of Paris Jazz venues, and if you do a search for a venue or a style in the search box there is a good chance you'll find something that will interest you in the old posts

Enjoy all the music - I'll see you back here soon

cheers
Bremner

What is the Best Jazz Club in Paris?

Ouch... that's so hard.  Asking me to choose which is the best Jazz Bar in Paris!!  That's like choosing the best pastry in a Paris bakery, or choosing which bakery in Paris makes the best croissant!

No, but seriously... the problem is there is so much choice... and each club has a different flavor -

do you want to be up close to the musicians in an intimate dark cavern like Caveau Des Oubliettes,

or do you want dinner and fancy tablecloths while listening to the big band sounds at Le Petit Journal de Montparnasse,  or how about hearing some young new players in the cool, modern metallic walls of the Dynamo,

Paris Jazz Meet-Up #2

Jazz Meet-up #2

Cabaret Jazz  at Le Dynamo
9 Rue Gabrielle Josserand
two minutes walk from
Metro - Aubervilliers-Pantin on Line 7
Saturday, Jan 22, 20h30
14 euros

read more about it at http://www.meetup.com/Paris-Loves-Jazz/

This Jazz Meet Up is happening at the fantastic Dynamo, home of the wonderful Banlieues Bleues Festivals.

LE CABARET DES MUSIQUES A OUIR.
The performers say - "Wilkommen, welcome, bienvenue au cabaret free désinvolte, au music-hall déjanté, dadaïste et féérique, au moulin (rouge) du musette et de la chanson populaire recyclée rock !Brigitte Fontaine et Areski, Billie Holiday, Eric Lareine, Loïc Lantoine, Georges Brassens, Ferré, Dutronc, Boris Vian, les Clash ou Zizi Jeanmaire… " (and I'll translate that freely - "Wilkommen, welcome, welcome to the casual free cabaret, music hall crazy, Dadaist and magical at the red windmill and musette of recycled pop song! Brigitte Fontaine and Areski, Billie Holiday, Eric Lareine, Loïc Lantoine, Georges Brassens, Ferré, Dutronc, Boris Vian, the Clash or Zizi Jeanmaire ." 

You can hear extracts from their new album HERE.

or see a video of these fun loving guys

Wow! Live jazz in Paris rocks and rolls at Studio de l'Ermitage

OK, well these are my new 'favouritist bands ever'!

I went to see Benjamin Moussay and Ping Machine at l'Ermitage last night, accompanied by some new friends from the meet-up group http://www.meetup.com/Paris-Loves-Jazz/

Those bands brought down the house.

Benjamin's trio was a wildly successful mix of ....uhhhh... early Genesis meets Chick Corea?  Dave Holland meets Frank Zappa?  Whatever!  It was great music presented with humour and a delicacy of touch that just charmed the audience.

here they are in the recording session for their last album


they'll be back next in Paris on June 2nd at the Parc Floral Paris Jazz Festival
I really cannot recommend them enough... if I tried to do that I'd be here all day