Nina Simone: Live in Antibes, 1965
8 videos • 5,739 views • by Nina Simone #ninasimone #antibes Recording session: Live in Antibes, 1965 The International Jazz Festival in Antibes Juan-les-Pins (France) is the oldest running jazz festival in Europe. The first "Jazz à Juan", created to pay tribute to the famous adopted Antibian, Sidney Bechet, was held in 1960. From the 1920's Antibes Juan-les-Pins was the anchor point in Europe for the new generation of citizens from free America and the meeting place for intellectuals and modernists, following the example of Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway etc. With them came jazz and a new style of living. From then on, the "joie de vivre" city, so precious to Picasso, also became the adopted homeland of Sidney Bechet, as a tribute to which he wrote the jazz piece "In the streets of Antibes". The sixth Antibes Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival took place from July 24 to July 29. Nina had the closing spot on the first two days. Nina Simone: piano, vocal Lisle Atkinson: bass Rudy Stevenson: guitar Robert Hamilton: drums