Elke Brauweiler: Chanson und Jazz

In the organizer's words:

Thursday, 3.10.2024, 8 pm, Brotfabrik

As part of the
DAY OF CLUB CULTURE

CHANSON AND JAZZ WITH ELKE BRAUWEILER

Elke Brauweiler- vocals
Thibo Falk - piano
Rodolfo Paccapelo - bass
Felix Astor - drums

Admission 10, reduced 5 Euro

For the first day of club culture, we are once again presenting one of our most successful concerts from last year: Chanson and Jazz with Elke Brauweiler from the series:
Django Reinhardt and French Jazz, 1940-1960

Until the 1960s, jazz and chanson were still in a symbiotic relationship, which culminated in the affair - or great love? - between Juliette Greco and Miles Davis. Unfortunately, there are no joint albums by either of them and the flirtation was short-lived, as Miles Davis only stayed in Paris for ten days in 1949 before traveling back to the USA. Nevertheless, there is a photo of Juliette Greco with Miles Davis' trumpet. Apart from Greco, there were several other female singers in Paris, but jazz in Paris around 1950 was predominantly male, even if jazz musicians such as Quincy Jones, for example, trained with a woman - Nadia Boulanger, of all people. There were also Mimi Perrin, Monique Aldebert, Blossom Dearie - and of course Brigitte Bardot, Christiane Legrand, Petula Clark, Marie Laforêt and many others.
One of the most important producers of the chansons was the jazz pianist Eddy Barclay, whose real name was Édouard Ruault.
He also performed with Django Reinhardt in the 1940s. In 1937 he founded the label "Disques Swings" and in 1945 "Blue Star", and later, in 1954, the label "Barclay Records". In addition to his activities as label owner, he continued to make music and founded "Eddie Barclay et son Orchestre", which featured Hubert Rostaing on clarinet, Jack Diéval on piano and Jerry Mengo on drums. With the Barclay Records label, he became one of the most important producers for French chanson and released records by Dalida, Henri Salvador, Charles Aznavour, Brigitte Bardot, Francoise Hardy, Jacques Bel and Juliette Greco. In the 1950s, he also recorded Chet Baker, while Quincy Jones became the musical director of the record company.

Chanson slowly softened musically in the 1950s. Increasingly, jazz musicians were also venturing into other areas of popular music - André Popp, jazz pianist, wrote a song for the Eurovision competition, for example. Jazz slowly lost social acceptance and the heyday of jazz chanson came to an end. Elke Brauweiler, who became famous with the electro-pop band Paula, will revive the high point of the symbiosis between chanson and jazz. She has worked intensively with the French chansons of the 1950s and 1960s and will perform a selection from this period accompanied by the French jazz pianist Thibault Falk, the bassist Rodolfo Paccapelo and the drummer Felix Astor. Elke Brauweiler brings her very own, Berlin contemporary interpretation, which will captivate us all. Some of the evening's songs can also be heard on Elke Brauweiler's grandiose French electropop album "Twist à Saint Tropez", a reference to a song by Guy Lafitte, Martial Solal and André Salvet.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elke_Brauweiler

https://felixastor.de/Felix_Astor/Biographie.html

http://www.thibault-falk.de/

https://youtu.be/PfBHuMt17Aw?feature=shared