Louise Jallu reinvents the bandoneon at La Scala in Paris on Saturday, 09/11/2024, for a concert dedicated to her third album JEU. Book on the site of La Scala.

In Louise Jallu's bandoneon, Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy and Franz Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach and Fritz Kreisler, as well as Arnold Schönberg and Alban Berg now dance. Baroque, romanticism, and contemporary European music, all carried by the rhythm of a milonga – it required audacity. And Louise Jallu does not lack any.

After declaring her love for tango—both classical and Nuevo tango—she now plays the part of the infidel, passionately venturing into the intense and capricious steps of the milonga, the sophisticated cousin of tango, often said to be even more complex. In this new work by the Gennevilliers native, a brilliant and iconoclastic student of Argentine masters Mosalini and Beytelman, it is the milonga that takes center stage and plays the leading role.

A classical-sounding piano, a double bass that growls with its jazzy side, an electric guitar brushing up against rock, and drums flirting with contemporary music, all driven by the bandoneon that cleverly binds and unbinds it all. This is music that transcends borders. Just as she did with Piazzolla, in her new album, Louise fearlessly tackles big names, from classical (Schumann, Berg) to jazz, to more popular references (Ravel’s Bolero, Brassens)...

The highly personal arrangements by Louise sound like popular compositions. A music that passionately and freely breaks away from styles and codes. Jeu is an exciting musical playground for Louise Jallu, who is only thirty years old. What game will she be playing in ten or twenty years? She has said that she loves "the spirit of musical transgression" while still respecting tradition.

In concert at La Scala in Paris on Saturday, November 9, 2024, at 8:30 PM. Infos and Reservations.

Here’s the video showcasing the concert at La Scala on November 9, 2024: