100 ans de Gatsby le Magnifique

| Jazz, standards

Scott Fitzgerald completed *The Great Gatsby* not in the United States, but on the French Riviera in 1924, infusing his masterpiece with elegance and nostalgia, just as the ‘Jazz Age’—a term he had already coined two years earlier in another work—was just beginning. A century later, Mélissa Lesnie, an Australian singer with a velvety tone and retro charm, transports us back to this world, lulled by the echoes of ragtime and the standards of hot jazz and Tin Pan Alley, featuring the early hits of Gershwin and Irving Berlin. Accompanied by Jean-Baptiste Franc on piano, a true master of the 1920s style, Melissa brings this golden twilight back to life through foxtrots, charlestons and blues from the Roaring Twenties – music one can easily imagine setting the pace for the high-society evenings of a certain Jay Gatsby.

Melissa Lesnie: vocals
Jean-Baptiste Franc: piano