Jazz: for Rhoda Scott, 83, a new album and a concert in January

At 83, Rhoda Scott is releasing a new album on January 14 with the Ladies All Star and her “go celebrate” in concert on January 28 in Paris. “A concert is a moment of truth and a record translates this moment of truth “, according to one who is considered the greatest organist in the world.

Rhoda Scott performed with Ella Fitzgerald or again Ray Charles. Now she plays with seven other young women, two drummers and a brass quintet. “With the Ladies All Star, it gives me an encounter with youth and women who make music.e, it reminds me of my beginnings “, tells the one who fell in love with France in 1968.

“Girls kick me in the ass, it keeps me going and it makes me think. Each time, I am called to put myself in their universe, with my own expressions, and it’s very interesting“, adds Rhoda Scott, who discovered the organ in the American church where her father was pastor.

The “barefoot lady” still plays without shoes at 83: “I started like this. In my father’s church there was a keyboard on the floor, so I took off my shoes and learned to play like that. I could with shoes, but I prefer without “.