Poetic Ways

Jazz is admittedly all about whom you meet. But it also a question of surprise, being left speechless, play and poetry. The quintet “Poetic Ways” is a trial, transformed during a first impromptu concert improvised live on France Musique radio in November 2021 for the bicentenary of the Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet in Marseille.
At the outset, it was a simple bet on a surprise or expectation: that the voices of Celia Kameni, Anne Paceo, Raphaël Imbert, Pierre-François Blanchard and Pierre Fenichel would work for a new attractive and poetical adventure of sound! A successful gamble thanks to the magic of the moment captured on air, the feedback from listeners surprised to hear Fauré, Ferré, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Nina Simone in one same echo filled with groove and emotions. The gamble should clearly be taken again! In November 2021, Lyon was invited to Marseille in the form of Celia Kameni. And then on 26th July 2022, at the festival Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon, it was so-to-speak… the return match! A new creation, a new surprise, not to be missed.

Célia Kameni – Vocal
Raphaël Imbert – Saxophones
Anne Paceo – Drums
Pierre-François Blanchard – Piano
Pierre Fénichel – Double bass