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

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

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

Don Carlos Opéra in five acts by Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1883) Libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle after Friedrich von Schiller's 'Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien' First performance in Paris, Opéra, 11 March 1867 Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège, Paolo Arrivabeni (Conductor) Pierre Iodice (Chorus master) Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera (Stage Director) Gary Mc Cann (sets) Fernand Ruiz (costumes), Franco Marri (lighting) Gregory Kunde (Don Carlos) Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Philippe II) Yolanda Auyanet (Elisabeth de Valois) Kate Aldrich (La Princesse Eboli) Lionel Lhote (Marquis de Posa) Roberto Scandiuzzi (Grand Inquisiteur) Patrick Bolleire (Un Moine) Caroline De Mahieu (Thibault) Maxime Melnik (Le Comte de Lerme) Louise Foor (Une voix céleste) Recorded at the Opéra Royal de Liège-Wallonie, 17 & 19 April 2020

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (Conductor) Daniel Barenboim (Piano) Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 'Emperor' Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 5 in B-flat major, op. 100 Recorded at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, 9 November 2017 TV Director, Birgit Malzer

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Christian Arming (direction) Emmanuel Ceysson (harpe) Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921) Hänsel und Gretel (excerpts) Reinhold Gliere (1874 - 1956) Concerto for harp in E flat major Op. 74 Félix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Märchen von der schönen Melusine, Op.32 Piotr Tchaïkovski The Nutcracker, suite op.71a Recorded on 24 November 2016 at the Salle Philharmonique de Liège Directed by Frédéric Caillierez

Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein (conductor) Krystian Zimerman (piano) Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto no 5 in E flat major, op. 73 ''Emperor'' Recorded in 1989 at the Musikverein, Vienna Directed by Humphrey Burton

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor) Marlis Petersen (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (alto), Werner Güra (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass) Netherlands Radio Choir Ludwig van Beethoven Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123 Directed by Joost Honselaar Recorded in 2012 at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam

Giselle Akram Kahn, choreography Adolphe Adam's, music Ruth Little, dramaturgy Tim Yip, sets Mark Henderson, lighting designe Vincenzo Lamagna, musical adaptation English National Ballet Philharmonic With Tamara Rojo, Giselle James Streeter, Albrecht and the English National Ballet Recorded on October 2017 a the Liverpool Empire TV Director, Ross McGibbon

Victoria Cathy Marston | choreographer Steffen Aarfing | set and costume designer Uzma Hameed | dramaturgue Cathy Marston | Uzma Hameed, scenario Philip Feeney | composer Northern Ballet Sinfonia Jonathan Lo | Conductor With (Queen Victoria) Abigail Prudames (Prince Albert) Joseph Taylor (Older Beatrice) Pippa Moore (Younger Beatrice) Miki Akuta (John Brown) Mlindi Kulashe (Liko) Sean Bates (Lord Melbourne) Jonathan Hanks with the Northern Ballet Recorded on May 24, 2019 at the Sadler's Wells Theatre de Londres, UK TV Director, Ross MacGibbon

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

Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal invite Naissam Jalal & Keyvan Chemirani Ballake Sissoko, Kora Vincent Segal, cello Track list Music from 'Musique de Nuit' (Night music) Recorded on June 18, 2020 at Jazz à Vienne, Théâtre antique TV Director, Fabien Raymond

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

Rokia Traoré | Rubén Pellejero Rokia Traoré, chant Mamadyba Camara, Kora Mamah Diabaté, N'goni Every year, the Angoulême Festival proposes to a comic strip author to create the Jazz à Vienne poster, and the two festivals offer a creative comic concert that mixes music and comic strips. Both festivals offer a creative comic concert that will mix music and comic strips, bringing together a cartoonist and a musician, who express themselves live with their own 'tools' to compose a hybrid work. This particular comic concert brings together the singer Rokia Traoré and the cartoonist Rubén Pellejero. Playlist A Ou Ni sou (Rokia Traoré) Konakiri (Sory Kandia Kouyaté) Nimandon (Rokia Traoré - Ballaké Sissoko) Keme Birama (Classic song - Mali) Danama (Classic song - Mali) Titati (Bako Dagnon) Djadjiri (Classic song - Mali) Da Monzon (Classic song - Mali) Malisadio (Classic song - Mali / GuinEA Conakry) Recorded on January 26, 2018 at the Festival d'Angoulème TV Director, Samuel Thiebaut