Parc de la Villette, 211 avenue Jean Jaurs 75019 Paris
presents
from February 10 to March 10, 2007
Monday through Saturdays at 8 pm
(no performances on Sunday)
Emmanuel Dongala
A Love Supreme
Jazz-Theater
(Reprise)
Director : Luc Clmentin
Starring : Adama Adepoju
Musicians : Sbastien Jarrousse (tenor saxophone), Jean-Daniel Botta ( double bass) and Olivier Robin (drums).
“One more time," John Coltrane might have said; in a theatre dedicated to French-language works, “bis“ would be more correct.
After a triumphal run last season, the quintet is back -- an actor, a trio of jazz musicians and a director -- with a piece based upon the words of Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala and the music of John Coltrane.
In a New York nightclub, a barman tells the tale (with jazz accompaniment, of course) of the death of a saxophonist. And through the haze of alcohol and of remembrance, comes all the tenderness which linked him to the artist...
John Coltrane and his disturbing music; Coltrane and the mystical madness of his musical breakthroughs; Coltrane in a segregated America, the turbulence of thunderous rebellions; Coltrane under the gaze of a young Congolese, then studying in the United States, who composed one of his first texts -- “A Love Supreme" -- out of the fractured and fracturing accents of a Black America enraged, excluded, convulsed.
“Jazz-theater" in a chorus of intertwined notes and words.
See the review at AllAboutJazz.com.
Born in Congo in 1941, Emmanuel Dongala is the author of several novels, many of which have been translated into English (Little Boys Come From the Stars, Johnny Mad Dog, The Fire of Origins). He lives in the United States, having left Brazzaville in 1997. “A Love Supreme" is taken from his collection of novellas, Jazz and Palm Wine.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
