SHADES - Le Camembert Jazz Festival

22 Rue Rabelais, Théâtre municipal

Six active artists on the national jazz scene breathe new life into a repertoire nearly a century old. Shades is a voice in service of a legend: the Broadway musicals of the 1940s and 50s, but also the songs that cemented the vocal art of Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald. This journey through New York’s grand musical avenues does not prevent Shades musicians from consciously losing themselves in the lush mazes of vocal improvisation. It’s as if these cross streets lead straight to…