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Juliette Greco: "I feel a boundless admiration for jazz" Sacred

Juliette Greco has split Aug. 2 with a triumphant concert on his fifth pass at the Francofolies de Montréal. Caught by Gerard Jouannest piano (her husband), and accordionist Jean-Loup Matinier, singer, facing a room magnetized, paid tribute to Brel (5 masterpieces), in Ferré (2), to Gainsbourg (2), and finally to a slew of contemporary composers. The charm of the former girlfriend of Miles Davis has not lost an atom. Treatment very Staff timeless songs ("Do not leave me ", "I come " by Jacques Brel and Gerard Jouannest, "Av ec Time " Leo Ferré) liberties with his original scores, the close to both slammers today and jazz forever. I wanted to know what the show kept as a legacy of Jazz figures. Back to the days when Saint-Germain-des-Pres was muse to the girl dressed in black, who wanted " transform pain into beauty .

INTERVIEW JULIETTE GRECO

Bruno Pfeiffer : Several standing ovations ... What is the secret of fishing 82 years?

Juliette Greco: Nothing complicated. I practice for sixty years exactly the same job: interpreter. The show, these are words and songs. I try to be light in serving the compositions of others. I am fighting for that poetry exists in the street. The public sent me something very good last night. When I arrive in Montreal, I feel like I landed in a France youth. I wanted to shake the hands of people who flocked to the scene during callbacks. Impossible: I am moving with difficulty, due to a problem with your toes.

Some interpretations, some emphases differ considerably from the original.

happy again! When Brel singing "Ne me quitte pas ", he appeared resigned, crybaby. I rageais! I disagree with his acceptance of defeat. This decline makes me beside myself. I mark my anger. The tone that I print the song is thus clear: "You are wrong leave me. You'll see: you're gonna drool . This lavish on music Jouannest because I feel more comfortable on rich arpeggios.

You inspire the side " improviser " Jazz?

I never dared. I love Jazz. However, I do not seek inspiration in the depths of this great African-American culture. J'insuffle a personal brand to pieces. What I am. All I can. As possible. However, everyone I love swimming in the music. I feel a boundless admiration for jazz.

Boris Vian? What

be wonderful! It was beautiful. From a physical beauty, at first, with its celadon green skin. Being the tenderest, sweetest, most attentive I've encountered. He had a huge heart. It gave off a finesse, intelligence ... and ferocity of a child. I looked like my older brother. He served as a psychiatrist. It helped me a lot. Effectively. I did not want to speak from the Occupation. It made my life after the Liberation. It got me out of a prison interior. The pill would have failed to voluntarily take on the day of his death? I do not believe it. It is rather died of rabies.

The Deserter?

Huge song. I never missed an opportunity to sing. Yet it was at risk at the time. I resume the compilation produced by Olivier Nuc (" We're not there to be yelled "), released in June (at Universal). I almost held to recite, because of the peace that emanates from it. Analysts pose as the anti-militaristic anthem. My opinion differs. I think Boris gives voice to a lowly peasant who does not want to offend the president but refuses to be killed and kill others. It perceives its language. The guy simply said "No to war . I have suffered too much, the war is shit." The text is an admirable purity. Nuc had proposed other new songs. I wonder if some who were assigned thereafter are his hand Vian. The claw of my Boris, I know her among a thousand.

Vian is that you initiated the Jazz?

No, already listened to radio classics like Walk Lambeth before the war.

Why not be coming to Pleyel June 23 to celebrate the anniversary of his death? You would have been the Queen of the night.

All these young singers deserved to rule the night. Me, stupidly, I was not there.

Duke Ellington?

Magnificent. Not my idol, though. Do not make me draw up a hit parade, I put all the jazzmen to equality. Unless Miles Davis. He's the best. I located at the top. It's my life.

Tell us the encounter with Miles Davis.

We were both very young. He played to Pleyel. I was broke. Boris's wife, Michelle Vian, had brought in the backstage. I saw this guy in profile. Beautiful face. He played either on a concave or so convex. Backward, then forward. Most discussed. Bizarre. I felt a harmony between the character, gestures, and the sound of the trumpet. No need to be graduated to feel he was playing in the big leagues. We went out dinner band. I did not speak his language, nor he mine. And now ... the miracle of love! I could try to sing with him. But I had no taste standards. Why, moreover, while large vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, would have made a thousand times better than me?

Miles has come to one of your recital?

Yes, much later, in New York. The production had selected a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. He came to dine with me at the restaurant at the top of the building. So I do not look like a hooker with a Black man, he brought the pianist John Lewis with his two children. They have been through an ordeal in the elevator. I can not tell you mine defeat of Butler when the group entered. The boy took two hours before we serve the dishes, and again, the word is not used, they almost had us swaying in his mouth, as if they were dogs that would bite. Miles could not stand that I watch these scenes of racism. His country made him ashamed. I have fond memories of this painful episode. I think that's why he did not want me to join the USA.

Like you, Miles has frequently given their chance in life at the end of his career ...

course. But competition in the song is terrible. Going to defend that of a youngster behind "Pretty same" or " Matilda".

J ' yet have the impression that you feel more at ease last night with worms slams.

(On a confidential tone, borrowing a conspiratorial air).

Do not repeat it: it is easier ...

Bruno Pfeiffer