Orford Musique: Yannick Rieu: 100 Years of Coltrane

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One hundred years ago, John Coltrane was born — a wise and fiery meteor, an architect of a musical language that transformed jazz and everything orbiting around it. His breath carried across entire generations: Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, Michael Brecker, Branford Marsalis, Chris Potter… Each, in one way or another, entered into dialogue with this vast voice, at times prayerful, at times incandescent. Born in 1926 in North Carolina, Coltrane played with the orchestras of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis before becoming one of the most radical explorers of twentieth-century music. His journey, both brief and meteoric, left an indelible mark.

This project marks another crossing. Yannick Rieu, a saxophonist whose inner quest often intersects with that of Coltrane, offers for this centenary not a fixed tribute but a living immersion into the master’s legacy. Rieu shares with him a taste for pushing boundaries, for sonic introspection, and for the spiritual call that a melodic line can become.

Rather than a simple reinterpretation of Coltrane’s major works, he offers an immersion: his own compositions become bridges, resonances, and flashes that extend the Coltranean journey. This program exists where respect meets invention, and where memory does not simply repeat, but chooses instead to move forward toward the vibrant unknown that animated Coltrane himself.

Yannick Rieu has undertaken numerous artistic residencies at Orford Musique to develop various projects, and has also performed several times at the Festival.

This project is a production of Productions Yari.

Event Artists

Yannick Rieu, saxophone Mike De Masi, double bass Jonathan Cayer, piano Alain Bourgeois, drums

Orford Musique: Yannick Rieu: 100 Years of Coltrane

Date/Time
Friday, July 31, 2026
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Location
Gilles-Lefebvre Concert Hall
3165 Chem. du Parc
Orford, QC
Canada, J1X 7N9

Price
$59

Phone
819-843-3981

Website
https://www.orford.mu/en/concerts-and-events/yannick-rieu-100-years-of-coltrane/

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