Magic Malik Rythms and dancses from Cameroon Magic Malik, flute, voice, co-composer, co-artistic direction, Hilaire Penda co-composer, co-artistic direction, Zaf Zapha, bass, Maciek Lassere, saxophone, William Ombe, percussions, voice, Merclin Nyakam, choreography, dance, voice Created in 2017 on the occasion of the residence of Magic Malik in Royaumont, this programme focusing on Cameroon was an invitation to see much further by looking much closer. To start with, it was a question of an encounter between the flautist with large antennas and a Fulani flute played by the Burkino Faso citizen Dramane Dembelé. However, along the way, the imagined project with the late Hilaire Penda and of which the Cameroonian dancer Merlin Nyakam has become the principle mediator, feeds off traces from the past in order to question the very nature of what we call jazz and to fertilise it by projecting it into the contemporary field of a 'creolised' world'. Recorded on March 28, 2019 at the Banlieues Bleues festival TV Director, Guillaume Dero

Tony Allen - The Source Tony Allen (drums) Mathias Allamane (double bass) Indy Dibongue (guitar) Jean-Phi Dary (Piano - keyborad) Nicolas Giraux (trumpet) Yann Jankielewicz (Tenor saxophone) Playlist Bad Roads Ewajo On Fire Wolf eat Wolf Push and Pull Crusing Cool Cats (Album The Source (Universal >Blue Note Records) Born in 1940 in Lagos, Tony Allen had never played any of the traditional percussion instruments only to straightaway become interested in their far-off cousin, that is to say, the drum kit. Self-taught, it was by listening to the recordings of Art Blakey or Max Roach that he perfected his technique of drum playing, even though he was working as a technician at the National Radio of Nigeria. His destiny took a new turn when in 1964 he made the acquaintance of Fela Kuti, firstly as part of the Koola Lobitos, then as conductor of Africa 70 where he developed a new language known as the Afrobeat, a mixture of Yoruba rhythms, of funk and of revolutionary themes. With Fela Kuti, Tony would append his rhythmic signature to around twenty albums, a unique manner of drawing out the rhythms with caressing energy, but which is fantastically efficient. For the rest of his career, Tony would spend it remaining faithful to the original Afrobeat and a multidirectional emancipation leading him through jazz, Dub music and international Pop. Recorded on August 31, 2019 at the Grande Halle de la Villette Jazz à la Villette TV Director, Samuel Thibaut

Emile Parisien celebrates the 40 years of Europajazz Emile Parisien, saxophone Vincent Peirani, accordion Michel Portal, clarinet Fabrice Martinez, trompet Manu Codjia, guitar Roberto Negro, piano Julien Touery, piano Simon Tailleu, double-bass Ivan Gelugne, double-bass Mario Costa, drums Julien Loutelier, drums Recorded on May 11 & 12, 2019 à the Epa Abbey TV Director, Jean-Marc Birraux

Lucia di Lammermoor, dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848) Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Walter Scott's 'The Bride of Lammermoor' First performance in Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 26 September 1835 Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Marco Armiliato (Conductor) Conxita Garcia (Chorus Master) Damiano Michieletto (Stage Direction) Paolo Fantin (Sets), Carla Teti (Costumes), Martin Gebhardt (Lighting) Elena Mosuc (Lucia di Lammermoor) Juan Diego Flórez (Edgardo) Marco Caria (Enrico) Simón Orfila (Raimondo) Albert Casals (Arturo) Jorge Rodríguez Norton (Normano) Sandra Ferrández (Alisa) Recorded on December 20th & 23th 2015 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona Directed by Fabrice Castanier

Robot ! Choreography, artistic direction Blanca Li Musical robots, Maywa Denki NAO Robots , Aldebaran Robotics Scenography, Pierre Attrait Light, Jacques Chatelet Music, Tao Gutierrez In partnership with Aldebaran Robotics for the NAO robots Dancers, Yacnoy Abreu Alfonso, Emilie Camacho, Géraldine Fournier, Yann Hervé, Aliashka Hilsum, Samir M'Kirech, Margalida Riera Roig, Gael Rougegrez and 8 robots Eight dancers and the musically animated humanoids of the Japanese collective Maywa Denki are directed by Blanca Li and investigate the relationship between man and machine, in the particular context where robots tend to become more and more human. This innovative performance is immediately engaging and the audience is dazzled by the technical prowess of the robotic choreography. A futuristic fantasy, 'Robot!', Blanca Li's new creation for the Montpellier Dance Festival, is one of these unidentified objects the choreographer from Andalusia particularly enjoys. In this approach to 'total theatre', she involves eight dancers and the animated humanoids of the Japanese collective Maywa Denki. The resulting opera takes stock of a world in which mathematics and technology try to harness human life and design thinking machines. Machines with desires... A post-dadaist choreographer, influenced by psychoanalytically-minded Martha Graham and her native city of Granada where she was a gymnast at the age of twelve, Blanca Li enjoys a comical and poetical form of humour. Her 'Garden of Earthly Delights' after Hieronymus Bosch, premiered at Montpellier in 2009, her opera 'Rag Time' after Scott Joplin, a commercial for the Longchamp brand and a show for Jean-Paul Gaultier all partake of her invitation to 'come and dance with me'. 'Robot!' clearly belong to this tradition. Recorded at the Maison des Arts & de la Culture de Créteil TV directors, Blanca Li and Fabien Raymond

Elektro Kif Choreography and staging , Blanca LI Lighting design, Jacques Châtelet Original Music, Tao Guttierrez Costume, Françoise Yapo Dancers Khaled Abdulahi (alias Cerizz) Jeremy Alberge (alias Jerem) , Arnaud Bacharach (alias Nino), Roger Bepet (alias Big Jay) , William Falla (alias Treaxy) , Slate Hemedi (Alias Crazy) , Alou Sidibe (alias Kyrra), Adrien Sissoko (alias Fiasco) Recorded on 2013 at la Cigale, Paris TV Director,

MusicAeterna byzantina, MusicAeterna choir, Teodor Currentzis (Conductor) Alexey Retinsky (b. 1986) Salve Regina Ave rex gentis anglorum Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179) O vis aeternitatis Kyrie eleison Te ri rem Malek Theotoke i Elpis Vai me Exomologiste ton kirion Recorded at the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 26 October 2019 TV Director, François-René Martin

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Saint Petersburg, Valery Gergiev (Conductor) Daniil Trifonov, Sergei Redkin, Sergei Babayan (piano) Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Symphony no. 4, op. 47 Piano Concerto no. 3 in C major, op. 26 (Nobuyuki Tsujii) Piano Concerto no. 4 in B flat major, op. 53 (Sergei Redkin) Piano Concerto no. 5 in G major, op. 55 (Sergei Babayan) Symphony no. 5 in B flat major, op. 100 Recorded at the Mariinsky III, Saint Petersburg on April 24, 2016 TV direction by François-René Martin

Die Entführung aus dem serail (The Abduction from the seraglio) Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Libretto by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie, new version by Luk Perceval and Aslı Erdoğan First performance in Vienna, Burgtheater, 16 July 1782 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chorus of the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Fabio Biondi (conductor) Alan Woodbridge (Chorus master) Luk Perceval (Stage Direction) Philipp Bussmann (Sets), Ilse Vandenbussche (Costumes), Mark Van Denesse (Lighting), Luc Joosten (Dramaturgy), Ted Stoffer (Choreography) Olga Pudova (Konstanze) Claire de Sévigné (Blonde) Julien Behr (Belmonte) Denzil Delaere (Pedrillo) Nahuel Di Pierro (Osmin) Françoise Vercruyssen (Old Konstanze) Iris Tenge (Old Blonde) Joris Bultynck (Old Belmonte) Patrice Luc Doumeyrou (Old Osmin) Recorded at the Grand Théâtre, Geneva, 24 & 26 January 2020

Christian McBride's New Jawn Christian McBride,leader/bass Nasheet Waits, drums Marcus Strickland, sax tenor Josh Evans, trumpet Powered by a relentless energy and a boundless love of swing, Christian McBride's path has described a continuous positive arc since his arrival on the scene. With a career now blazing into its third decade, the Philadelphia native has become one of the most requested, most recorded, and most respected figures in the music world today. His latest grouping, Christian McBride's New Jawn, is a killer unit, tight, soulful, in the pocket and in the groove. By the way, Jawn is Philly slang to describe just about everything and anything, but most importantly to understand why McBride named his new band so, it is probably this: 'Jawn' is one Philly thing New York can't lay claim to'. Recorded on July 20, 2018 at the Malta Jazz Festival TV Director, Amos Rozenberg

José James José James (voice, guitar) Marcus Machado (guitar) Aneesa Strings (bass, voice) Aaron Steele (drums) Since bursting onto the international scene a little over a decade ago, José James and his honey-sweet voice are still as bewitching. The Minneapolis artist admits to being inspired by Marvin Gaye, the producer Flying Lotus and John Coltrane for his stylish blend of what makes up Great Black Music. Flitting between raw soul, soul folk, hip hop and jazz, James is in the microcosm of vocalists capable of keeping the crossover created by Ray Charles in the 50s alive. His first album (The Dreamer, 2008) pays tribute to Martin Luther King. The next one, Blackmagic, features the beatboxer Taylor McFerrin. His fourth album (in the meantime he recorded with Junior Mance, Chico Hamilton, Flying Lotus and the pianist Jef Neve), No Beginning No End, is on Blue Note. The more soulful than ever singer is back with Lean On Me (2018). After leaning on Billie Holiday and John Coltrane, this time he pays tribute to the living legend of American pop and the immense soulman Bill Withers. There are twelve unforgettable tracks by Withers, who celebrates his 80th birthday in July, produced by Don Was and recorded by a dream band: bassist Pino Palladino, Kris Bowers (fabulous Rhodes on the cover of Ain't No Sunshine), Brad Allen Williams and Nate Smith. Recorded on July 02, 2019 at Jazz à Vienne TV Director, Mikaël Favard

João Bosco, lead, guitar/vocals Ricardo Silveira, guitar Guto Wirtti, bass Kiko Freitas, drums João Bosco has been loved in his home country of Brazil for decades, since the 60s when he first began composing and performing. In the early 90s, Bosco mounted a major tour of the US, and since then he has become increasingly popular internationally, regularly performing at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival. Despite his growing popularity outside of his homeland, Bosco remains thoroughly attached to Brazil to the point of never leaving it for extended periods; his music, though rooted in Brazil's classic samba and bossa nova traditions, combines rock and roll, jazz and other ethnic styles in an eclectic brew that is as inventive and challenging as he is. In 2017 Bosco received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Latin Recording Academy at the 18th Annual Latin Grammy Awards. His new album, Mano Que Zuera, was released at the end of the year. Recorded on July 21, 2018 at the Malta Jazz Festival TV Director, Amos Rozenberg

Richard Bona & Mandekan Cubano @ Montreux Jazz Festival 2016 Richard Bona, bass & voice Mandekan Cubano Dennis Hernandez, trumpet Luis Bonilla, trombone, Osmany Parades, piano, Luisito Quintero, timbal & percussion Robert Quintero, congas & percussion Born in Cameroon, singer-composer Richard Bona has enjoyed twenty years of an international career taking him from Paris to New York, from recordings studios to the most prestigious concert halls. Musical partners have included Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Paul Simon and Chick Corea. Admired by fellow musicians and considered to be one of the best bass players in the world, Richard Bona brings jazz and African music ever more closely and universally together. Recorded on July 7th 7 2016 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Club TV Director, Marc Schütrumpf