Elisa Lecuyer raconte Betty Carter

| Standards, femmage

This time, Elisa Lécuyer celebrates the music and the fiery spirit of Betty Carter, a visionary singer and a key figure in modern jazz, renowned for her fierce independence and her radical art of improvisation.
An artist of rare freedom, she turned her voice into a boundless field of exploration: with fragmented phrasing, an elusive sense of timing, and a constant interplay with silences and shifts, she reinvents every standard as a living entity. Rejecting convention, she forges a unique language, both demanding and deeply expressive, where virtuosity serves an intimate and shifting narrative. Betty Carter thus establishes herself as a complete musician, at the crossroads of bebop, the avant-garde and reinvented tradition.

The Franco-Venezuelan singer Elisa Lécuyer flourishes as a storyteller of melodies. Once a month, at 38Riv, she dons her academic garb to immerse herself in the work of one of her favourite artists. Somewhere between a concert and a lecture, she weaves together stories and songs with the same eager and inspired energy. She uses her impetuous energy and eloquent vulnerability to express her musicality, always in the service of the lyrics of the songs she performs.

Elisa Lécuyer: vocals
TBA: piano