This Friday, November 22, 2024, at the Florida cinema, the Mumuki duo composed of Jeanne Robert on violin and Anna Cardona on piano, will perform around ten compositions by Astor Piazzolla before the broadcast of the film dedicated to the latter, equally new: “Piazzolla, the shark years”. “Sud Ouest” had the opportunity to speak with Jeanne Robert before this unique evening.
What led you to play this particular tango?
Since I was little, I have heard Argentine tango, it’s music that I have always loved. I tour in three other groups with very different styles ranging from classical music to Balkan music and gypsy jazz. Usually, gypsy jazz is a bit of my life but this is another project: the launch of the Mumuki Argentine tango group (1) on which I have been working for a year with Anna Cardona. We made our own arrangements because Piazzolla’s original repertoire is usually performed by quintets or full orchestras.
Is it easy to go from gypsy jazz to Argentine tango?
For fifteen years, I have no longer needed scores for gypsy jazz based on an oral tradition that relies on improvisation. For Argentine tango, I went back to the often complicated scores. I was able to approach them thanks to my classical training. Anna is still in the classical world and teaches at the La Rochelle conservatory.
Why come and listen to your duet?
It’s rare to have a violin and piano duo for this style of music, our original formation is unique… It’s far from the clichés that we can have about tango.
Scores or improvisations?
I understood written music (scores) the day I started improvisation, from the moment I was able to detach myself from it.
Practice: Piazzolla evening Friday November 22 at 8:30 p.m. Concert by the Mumuki duo followed by the film “Piazzolla, the Shark Years”. Contact: cinemaflorida.fr or 05 46 90 16 50.
(1) Mumuki on Facebook or contact 06 14 96 36 62.
