Darius Jones Quartet with Emilie Lesbros at Greenwich House Music School

In the second night of the Darius Jones stand, he collaborates with Paris-based vocalist Emilie Lesbros for the band Brigitte’s Baby.

Darius Jones, alto saxophone; Emilie Lesbros, vocals; Matt Mitchell, piano; Pascal Niggenkemper, double-bass; Ches Smith, drums

Saxophonist-composer, Darius Jones, and French vocalist-composer, Emilie Lesbros, will be collaborating on a new vocal work as a homage to French avant-garde vocalist Brigitte Fontaine. Fontaine is the inspiration for this project because of her eclectic musical taste and cross-cultural collaborations throughout her career. The desire of the composers is to create eclectic musical works driven by french lyrics and poetry dealing with the relationship between African-American and French cultures. ...

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In the second night of the Darius Jones stand, he collaborates with Paris-based vocalist Emilie Lesbros for the band Brigitte’s Baby.

Darius Jones, alto saxophone; Emilie Lesbros, vocals; Matt Mitchell, piano; Pascal Niggenkemper, double-bass; Ches Smith, drums

Saxophonist-composer, Darius Jones, and French vocalist-composer, Emilie Lesbros, will be collaborating on a new vocal work as a homage to French avant-garde vocalist Brigitte Fontaine. Fontaine is the inspiration for this project because of her eclectic musical taste and cross-cultural collaborations throughout her career. The desire of the composers is to create eclectic musical works driven by french lyrics and poetry dealing with the relationship between African-American and French cultures.

Darius Jones Quartet with Emilie Lesbros has been made possible through the French-American Jazz Exchange, a joint program of FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) and Mid Atlantics Arts Foundation, with generous funding from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Florence Gould Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Institut Francais, Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication and Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique (“SACEM”).

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