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Closing night with the Orchestre

Today the Orchestre National de Jazz de Francia presents “Broadway in Satin / Billie Holiday Revisited,” a tribute to the remarkable work of the singer on the 50th anniversary of her death. Their show will be the best way to close this successful second edition of Buenos Aires Jazz, from 9pm at Teatro Coliseo. The Orchestre National de Jazz was born in 1986, on the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture, and has ever since kept a distinctive dynamics of “creative lab”, with ten directors in alternation and several other special shows, all of which reflect original strategies and a constant attempt at combining styles and exploring new musical paths.

In this sense, the word “transversality” acquires its true significance: at present, the Orchestra has two other shows in addition to the one dedicated to Billie Holiday. They are based on the film aesthetics of Hollywood pioneer Cecil B. DeMille (“Carmen”), and the work of English “progressive” musician Robert Wyatt, a member of the seminal Soft Machine (“Around Robert Wyatt”).