the big annual evening of TSF Jazz radio celebrates its 20th anniversary this Monday in Pleyel

Launched in 2003, the annual TSF Jazz radio evening is sold out for its anniversary edition, Monday December 11 in Paris, with stars like Kyle Eastwood, Ibrahim Maalouf, Baptiste Trotignon and Bireli Lagrène as well as the new generation, in the image saxophonists Baptiste Herbin, Léon Phal and Jeanne Michard.

You & the Night & the Music has been the prestigious event and showcase of TSF Jazz since December 2003: a major annual concert in Paris like a condensed mini-festival, where a slew of guests follow one another, values safe and rising stars. The poster reflects the radio’s favorites and programming from the past year. As for the name of this event, it was originally the title of a song from a 1934 musical, which subsequently became a jazz standard – as was the case for countless pieces of the first half of the 20th century.

A sold-out concert, to be followed live on the radio

The twenty-year anniversary evening will be held Monday, December 11 at the Salle Pleyel. The ticket office opened on July 7, even before the poster was known. The room filled up quickly: it was sold out. Fans without tickets can console themselves by tuning into TSF Jazz radio this Monday evening. The concert starts at 8 p.m. It will be preceded by duplexes as well as meetings and musical sessions with certain guest artists from 6 p.m.

This year, eighteen artists and groups are participating in the show, each playing one or even two songs. This involves rigorous organization, very rapid set changes and interludes in the form of television archives, concerts or cinematographic documents.

Stars, voices to follow, rising values

The twentieth anniversary program brings together quite a few stars. There is bassist Kyle Eastwood who continues to highlight the music of his father Clint’s films, a path started successfully with Cinematic (2019) and continued with Eastwood Symphony (2023). There is the essential Franco-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, loyal to TSF Jazz of which he is one of the collaborators via his show “Improbox”, and regular at You & the Night & the Music evenings.

Another distinguished guest, the guitarist Biréli Lagrène, representative of gypsy jazz, recently released an album in which he revisits music by the composer Loulou Gasté who was the pygmalion and husband of Line Renaud. As for the pianist Baptiste Trotignon, he will perform with one of the most sensitive and endearing voices and pens on the French pop scene: Arthur Teboul, singer-songwriter of the group Feu! Chatterton. Among the other voices that will resonate at Pleyel, that of the thirty-year-old Parisian Gabi Hartmann whose career took off sharply at the beginning of the year, that of Kareen Guiock-Thuram who celebrates Nina Simone, and that of a former icon of the opera who came to explore the world of jazz, Natalie Dessay.

The virtuosos Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Segal, Vincent Peirani and Émile Parisien are united within their common project Les Égarés. Also to follow, the saxophonists Baptiste Herbin, Jeanne Michard as well as Léon Phal at the head of his attractive quintet, all in their thirties (or almost).

Great artists revealed during TSF Jazz evenings

For the record, some giants of the world jazz scene became stars overnight during previous editions of You & the Night & the Music. This is the case of the Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan, then 18 years old and almost unknown, or the American singer Gregory Porter…

Among the foreign guests of the 2023 edition, there are other Americans: the guitarist Jesse Harris – co-producer and co-writer for Gabi Hartmann, or the trumpeter Benny Benack III, without forgetting the Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez, whom Quincy Jones supported at his beginnings. Finally, this year, the band that serves as the ceremonial orchestra – a tradition – is the flamboyant Amazing Keystone Big Band.

Launched in December 2003 at New Morning, the TSF Jazz evening moved to the Opéra-Comique for a few editions before moving to the Olympia for several years, then finally the Salle Pleyel since 2017. The hosts are Sébastien Vidal, director of antenna and programs and pillar of the station, and Laure Albernhe, in charge of the morning slot.

You & the Night & the Music, the 20th anniversary edition
Concert presented by TSF Jazz and Adami, with the support of Sacem and OFI Invest
Monday December 11, 2023, 8 p.m., Paris, Salle Pleyel (full) and live on TSF Jazz