Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez / Kenny Garrett 5tet

Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez / Kenny Garrett 5tet
Closing concert – Festival Jazz à Porquerolles
Fort Sainte-Agathe – Île de Porquerolles

For its grand closing concert, the Jazz à Porquerolles Festival brings together two exceptional musical worlds in the magical setting of Fort Sainte-Agathe: the sensitive duo of Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez, followed by the legendary Kenny Garrett 5tet.

Opening act: Airelle Besson & Lionel Suarez
Blossom

When Airelle Besson’s trumpet meets Lionel Suarez’s accordion, music becomes breath, space and pure emotion.

A key figure in European jazz, Airelle Besson and Lionel Suarez develop a musical dialogue of rare delicacy. Between lyricism, improvisation and suspended melodies, the duo weaves an intimate conversation where each note seems to spring naturally from the other.

In this nuanced concert, Airelle Besson’s luminous trumpet and Lionel Suarez’s sensitive reeds create a poetic, deeply inhabited universe, somewhere between contemporary jazz and chamber music.

Cast
Airelle Besson: trumpet
Lionel Suarez: accordion

Second part: Kenny Garrett 5tet
Sounds from the Ancestors

A living legend of American jazz, Kenny Garrett celebrates his Sounds from the Ancestors project at the Festival Jazz à Porquerolles, a powerful, spiritual work inspired by the great figures of soul, gospel and Afro-American jazz.

A virtuoso saxophonist who first came to prominence with Miles Davis, Kenny Garrett’s music is intense and generous, drawing on the legacies of John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye.

Combining Afro-Caribbean rhythms, contemporary energy and spiritual depth, this closing concert promises a vibrant moment under the stars of Porquerolles.

Cast
Kenny Garrett: saxophones
Rudy Bird: percussion
Melvis Santa: vocals
Keith Brown: piano & keyboards
Ronald Bruner: drums