Octave & Anatole Plays Armstrong

There are life changing opportunities.

For Louis Armstrong, born at the very beginning of the 20th century, it was enough to listen a little to the musical parades of the Storyville district, in New Orleans to become, a few years later, the famous Satchmo that everyone in the world knows and admires.

You can easily tell he was there at the right time. At the time when jazz was born into the world.

We can also easily say that he revolutionized this music with his unique way of playing the trumpet and singing, while making the individual expression triumph as a person.

Miles Davis once said, “As soon as you blow an instrument, you know that you won't be able to get anything out of it that Louis has not already done. "

It is part of this dazzling and inimitable trajectory that the Octave et Anatole collective wanted to recount through the menu and in music with a quintet formation led head-on by Jérôme Etcheberry on trumpet and vocals, Félix Hunot on vocals and guitar, César Poirier on saxophone and clarinet, Pascal Mucci on drums, Pierre Richeux on double bass and Gabrielle Sandman as narrator and singer.