Elisa Lecuyer

Elisa Lécuyer celebrates this time the music and the incandescent spirit of Betty Carter, a visionary singer and an essential figure of modern jazz, recognized for her fierce independence and her radical art of improvisation.

An artist of rare freedom, she has turned her voice into a limitless field of exploration: fragmented phrasing, elusive sense of time, constant play with silences and shifts, she reinvents each standard as a living material. Rejecting conventions, she shapes a unique language, both demanding and deeply expressive, where virtuosity serves an intimate and moving narrative. Betty Carter thus emerges as a total musician, at the crossroads of bebop, avant-garde, and reinvented tradition.

The French-Venezuelan singer Elisa Lécuyer thrives as a storyteller of melodies. Once a month, at 38Riv, she puts on her academic attire to delve into the work of one of her favorite artists. Between the concert and the lecture, she unfolds stories and songs with the same avid and inspired momentum. She uses her impetuous energy and eloquent vulnerability to express her musicality, always in service of the lyrics of the songs she interprets.