Julien Lourau's new projects

The saxophonist Julien Lourau gets a carte blanche for his concert at the festival Jazz à la Villette, as Dominique Queillé reports in Libération and Vincent Fertey in Le Figaro . He plays besides Wayne Shorter whom he loves as a saxophonist but also as a composer, and Steve Coleman whom he knows since his M-Base days. Lourau presents three projects during the festival: his new collaboration with the DJ Jeff Sharel which is kind of an homage to Chicago house music of the 90s; an Afro-Cuban project named Rumbabierta in which he is joined by the flutist Orlando Maraca Valle; and with his longtime friend Laurent Coq in the quartet Saigon, a project they developed last year, first in Haiti, then in Vietnam.