Tribute to Claude Nougaro with the creation New’Garo, at the Jazz à Vienne festival with France Inter

Let’s celebrate the musicality, the poetry and the funniest singing accents of Nougaro, who died 20 years ago, on March 4, 2004.

We all have something in us from Tennessee? Not sure, however, about Claude though… a matter of subjectivity no doubt. As for your host Charline Roux, it is strongly linked to her year of CM1 since every Sunday of possible lie-in was listened to by this shock “from the terminal“, the trumpets and the pumped-up superstar Nougayork, released in 87.”Thank you Dad for making the floor of the house shake with Nougayork.“Phenomenal New York album, resounding success for Nougaro who had just been dropped by his record company for insufficient sales. Toulouse wins!

And then wasn’t it a bit cool in music class, rather than killing Yellow Submarine on the recorder, to learn the rhythm (and the text) with this homage to Loueis Armstrong, on the album Bidonville in 67. Homage to Louis, to jazz to the tune of Go Down Moses, standard and allegorical spiritual on the abolition of slavery. (It is said that Mathilde Munoz, at the helm of the 5-7 of France Inter, also made school vocalizations on this title too.)I confirm it to you“)

In the cinephilia, reverie and fantasy department of the great story of A (capital letter) we can also and obviously cite The movie theaterin 62, to music by Michel Legrand.
And for big screen inspiration, we can also cite the titles Breathless, The rain is tap dancing or Chaplin style.

Still love, but parental this time, in the pantheon of the most beautiful songs written for one’s child, Cécile my daughter.

Charline Roux: “I warned you, an express homage to the man with the swing soles is mission impossible. It will inevitably be missing O Toulouse, Jazz and Java, We must turn the page, Sing Sing Song, Quatres Boules de Cuir, Dansez sur moi but I must conclude…“

So, just as arbitrarily as the rest of this column, Charline Roux will conclude with You will see by Claude Nougaro, in his version proposed by an all-star ensemble (Souad Massi, Marion Rampal, Gabi Hartmann, Thomas de Pourquery, Sanseverino to name but a few) who will pay tribute to the singer in New’Garoa musical creation orchestrated by Fred Pallem on July 7 as part of the Jazz à Vienne Festival.