{"id":39144,"date":"2026-04-14T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/jaznet-or-musical-creolity\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:07:14","slug":"jaznet-or-musical-creolity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/jaznet-or-musical-creolity\/","title":{"rendered":"JazNet, or musical creolity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Jazz is essentially a music of mixtures and encounters. No wonder <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>it<\/b><\/span><b>  has generated a multitude of sub-genres, constantly feeding off the influences of the world&#8217;s popular music. Rainbow countries could not be left out&#8230; Yes, says Philippe Thomas, Creole jazz does exist.   <\/b><em>Dominique Bellier<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The kinship between the zouk\u00e9 jazz of Martinique&#8217;s Mario Canonge and the sega jazz of Philippe Thomas is obvious&#8230; We&#8217;re also close to the Portuguese melodies of <span class=\"s1\">Cape Verde<\/span>, inspired by Morna and Coladeira and structured by Senegalese percussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">French trio Akinroot, performing at the IFM on April 24, means &#8220;common roots&#8221;. In a contemporary, energetic style<span class=\"s1\">,<\/span> they blend jazz, funk and West African rhythms&#8230; On April 25 at 7pm, the <span class=\"s1\">B\u00e8l\u00e8Verde<\/span> duo will immerse us in the creolit\u00e9 of the Atlantic, from <span class=\"s1\"> Cape<\/span>Verde to Martinique, with their voices that are sometimes caressing velvet, sometimes rhythmic incantation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Our national trumpeter points out that musicians can just as easily treat jazz standards as sega or biguine, and conversely apply jazz harmonies to zouk, sega or maloya. The common feature is certainly the specific rhythms, but above all the harmonic richness that gives these musics their infinite generosity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On April 23 at the IFM<span class=\"s1\">,<\/span> musicians and producers will talk about the many faces of jazz. The Mo&#8217;Zar brass band celebrates its origins with a parade at Bagatelle <span class=\"s1\">Mall<\/span>on April 25, starting at noon. On April 30, 25 youngsters from Mo&#8217;Zar will join the headliners to tell the story of their roots. <span class=\"s1\"><i>TRANT-AN JAZ <\/i><\/span><i>Mo&#8217;Zar,<\/i> at the <span class=\"s1\">Caudan Arts Centre<\/span>, under the direction of Philippe Thomas&#8230; And this first edition of <span class=\"s1\">JazNet <\/span>will conclude on May 2 at Otentic Ecotent, Deux Fr\u00e8res, at the crossroads of generations.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz is essentially a music of mixtures and encounters. No wonder it has generated a multitude of sub-genres, constantly feeding off the influences of the world&#8217;s popular music. Rainbow countries could not be left out&#8230; Yes, says Philippe Thomas, Creole jazz does exist. Dominique Bellier The kinship between the zouk\u00e9 jazz of Martinique&#8217;s Mario Canonge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":39145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture-en"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39150,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39144\/revisions\/39150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}