Exhibition 1 

'THE JAZZ TREE'
The exhibition is recalling the history of jazz, its trends and influences.

The exhibition’s goal is to present the main facts and the various facets of a music unanimously considered as one of the major expressions of contemporary art, to accompany the neophyte in the diversity of the currents (fusion, funk, blues, Be bop, vocal) which since one century, agitated its history. The exhibition is presented such as a “genealogic tree of jazz.”
The jazz was born with the XXe century. You can also say that the jazz is a hundred years old. A hundred years of frenetic and poignants rythms, of incessant evolutions, with a few takeovers and several coup de théâtre. A hundred years of a living music, both popular and avantgardist. A hundred years of magic constatly renewed by new generations of music lovers lying in wait for strong musical emotions.
This exhibition emerges some of the major personalities, in other words a certain number of essential names which changed or marked the history of the jazz: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Hloliday, Louis Armstrong, Davis Miles, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Bill Evans, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Petreson Oscar, Thelanious Monk, Django Reinhardt etc.

Art design and execution : Philippe Baudoin et Isabelle Marquis

Format : 18 boards (number from 1 to 18), W 180 cm (in two parts of 90 cm) X H 160 cm

Note: Valid only for the  "jazz tree", pick-up and return of the exposition is at 8ter rue Traversière, 92100 Boulogne.Total weight: 60kg. Transport capacity of the vehicle: 8m3.

From the first step of minstrel shows to the swing era dances, through cakewalk, charleston or even lindy hop ; From Broadway to Hollywood, from the Savoy Ballroom to the Cotton Club, from lounge to sunlights, the main facets of jazzed and popular dance are evoked and replaced in their historical backgrounds.
32 boards accentuated the graphics and colours of the marvellous 270 music scores’ original covers, rarely shown in France. Each piece of these documents goes with its gloss.

Art design and execution : Philippe Baudoin et Isabelle Marquis

Format : 32 boards, each one is W 85 cm x H 120 cm (format A0)

When the jazzman goes to work, don’t we think he’s going to have fun,since he assures he will “play”?
Don’t we think he is going on holidays, since he’s taking train, plane, going to dream cruises, scaterring in summer in all the world festivals, surrounding himself with admirers, on holidays themselves ?
In a fun, light and summer point of view, the exhibiton focus on this fantasized and optimistic picturing of jazz (which is, of course, only the tip of the hard work the poor jazzman, overtired , has to do)
This exhibition is dedicated to musicians who have lots of side activities, espacially Stan Laferrière and in memory of Pierre Merlin et Claude Luter. May those who have music for one and only one passion forgive us : we think highly of them.

Art design and execution : Philippe Baudoin et Isabelle Marquis

Format : 23 boards (W 90 cm x H 130 cm)
Packaging in rolls H 100 cm x Diameter 20 cm, Weight 10 kilos