Rhoda Scott & guests – Tribute to Manu Dibango

original creation

(USA / France / Africa)

Rhoda Scott, an American jazz woman, has been the international ambassador of the Hammond organ for more than forty years. Rhoda Scott has played with the greatest: Ray Charles, George Benson, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Morrow…

Nicknamed “The Barefoot Lady”, Rhoda Scott was discovered by Count Basie who immediately hired her at his Harlem club. It was there that Eddy Barclay invited him to come to Paris, where the latter engaged him in his cabaret, the Bilboquet, from 1968.

On the occasion of the Jazz à Vienne festival, in 2004 she created the Rhoda Scott Lady Quartet with musicians Sophie Alour, Airelle Besson and Julie Saury. In 2017, the Sunset created a label to record the album “We Free Queens”, with the support of Géraldine Laurent, Anne Paceo and Julien Alour.

For several years now, the organ priestess has inflamed the stages of the planet surrounded by the rising generation of jazzwomen from France by sharing, always with the same generosity, her immense repertoire ranging from classical music to jazz, gospel and from spirituals to blues and groove. Three years after “We Free Queens” by the Rhoda Scott Lady Quartet, Rhoda Scott returns to the group that made her known in France, the organ-drums duo. A trio, in fact, since Rhoda Scott provides the bass with the pedals of her organ. After Daniel Humair, Franco Manzecchi, Armand Cavallero, Steve Phillips, Lucien Dobat or Julie Saury, it is the talented drummer Thomas Derouineau that the musician called on to accompany her on the twelve exhilarating titles of Movin’Blues – 2020.

Rhoda Scott now lives in Sarthe, in Le Mans!

Europajazz naturally invited Rhoda Scott to offer an exceptional and unique creation in homage to the great saxophonist and singer: Manu Dibango. Indeed, Manu Dibango has strong links with Sarthe having resided in his youth in Saint-Calais. In 1992, the Europajazz had programmed it at the Palais des Congrès in Le Mans and also for a memorable concert in the courtyard of the college of Saint-Calais.

Great musical moment in perspective!

 

Coproduction europajazz / le mans convention and culture center

In partnership with the Conservatory of Le Mans