Food for thoughts

In 2007, Le Périscope was born in Lyon: a project of a team mainly composed of professional musicians who decided to relocate a former craft premises located in the Perrache district, not far from the famous Brasserie Georges. Twelve years later, after the demolition of the Saint-Paul and Saint-Joseph prisons opposite it, this concert hall […]

"As Brexit looms closer, it is a good moment to assess how the relationship between musicians across Europe, as shown from the UK perspective, have grown and become intertwined over the past 40 years. The difficulties that will increasingly be placed on UK artists to continue being involved, which could become quite onerous at some stage, and even sooner if there is a no-deal Brexit." by Oliver Weindling

Examples are too many to mention, but we need look no further than the strong role of jazz in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, by the likes of Max Roach and Nina Simone. Jazz was very important in upholding freedom in the Communist bloc after 1945, often being driven underground but still there. […]

"I have felt for some time that the system of musician collectives has provided an important step forward for musicians and for the development of the jazz scene" by Tony Dudley Evans.

"If the Europeanization of jazz continues to follow its course as the circulation of musicians and works accelerates, it is still relevant, in my opinion, to consider the French jazz scene as quite unique of its kind" by Philippe Ochem