Adèle Viret Quartet | Louise Jallu Quartet

Jazz and other improv pieces

Young French cellist Adèle Viret will bring her own quartet, like her compatriot Louise Jallu, a great promise of the bandoneon. Cellist Adèle Viret, born in France in 1999, navigates between jazz and classical music. For her quartet she composed music on the instrument of her childhood, the piano. Initially inspired by the Mediterranean coast, she explores various landscapes, sometimes quietly and focused, and sometimes wild and stormy.

The instrumentation has a chamber-like atmosphere, with cello, trumpet, piano and percussion. Louise Jallu plays the bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument that is closely associated with tango legend Astor Piazzolla. However, she has a playful approach to this musical heritage, as she makes clear with the title of her new album Jeu.

Classical phrases from Schubert, Ravel and Debussy, and the chansons of Georges Brassens: these are just some of the influences in her richly varied and imaginative compositions. Better Live is a collaborative project of eleven European partners from the world of jazz and improvised music. Their goal is reducing the carbon footprint of live music events resulting from the mobility of artists and audiences. Another goal is supporting the circulation of international artists and increasing musical diversity across Europe.

Jazz Migration is a support program for emerging jazz and improvised music musicians run by AJC, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the BNP Paribas Foundation, SACEM, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, CNM, SPPF and Institut Français.