Rhino Jazz Festival

Rhino Jazz Festival at Chapelle de la Trinité

From within the vaulted stone and golden glow of Chapelle de la Trinité, we are honored to welcome Rhino Jazz Festival for a date shaped by the singular acoustics of our historic baroque chapel. As a venue, our mission is to offer artists a space where detail, dynamics, and nuance can breathe; this hall rewards quiet attention and amplifies the smallest gestures, turning a single note into an atmosphere. Rhino Jazz Festival shares that devotion to listening. The festival’s programming thrives on encounters between seasoned masters and boundary-pushing voices, and our chapel’s intimate scale allows audiences to sit close to the heart of the music. Expect an evening where resonance and silence collaborate, where the architecture becomes part of the ensemble, and where each piece reveals new colors as it floats beneath the frescoes and along the nave. It is a rare setting for jazz: contemplative, focused, and deeply human.

We present this performance as a moment that reflects the artist’s current creative path as much as the festival’s spirit of discovery. In recent seasons, the featured project has leaned into a chamber-like palette—shaped for sacred spaces—where rhythmic invention meets sensitive lyricism and improvised conversations bloom into narrative arcs. Our stage team has collaborated with the musicians to fine-tune balances for the chapel’s natural reverberation, allowing bass lines to remain articulate, cymbals to shimmer without glare, and melodies to bloom with clarity. Listeners will hear a repertoire that emphasizes movement between intimacy and uplift: pieces that open with hushed, crystalline motifs before expanding into vivid interplay, alongside free-spirited exchanges that resolve into elegant themes. The program’s dramaturgy is designed to feel like a journey rather than a setlist, guiding the audience through shifting terrains of groove, modal inflections, and unexpected harmonic turns. While the evening remains rooted in jazz language, it welcomes influences that reach beyond genre boundaries—drawing in textures of contemporary chamber music, subtle electronics or prepared-piano colors, and the heartbeat of folk and world rhythms—always in service of storytelling and collective improvisation.

An evening tailored to the Chapel

At Chapelle de la Trinité, we prepare for Rhino Jazz Festival with a close attention to the listening ritual itself. House lights are tempered to preserve the room’s warmth, stage plots are adapted so that instruments bloom into rather than fight the natural acoustics, and seating is arranged to create a shared, concentrated silence that lifts each phrase. You will sense the ensemble’s dialogue as if seated in the rehearsal room: the breath before a solo, the nod that launches a new section, the delicate trade of motifs between piano and horns, the subtle call-and-response from drums and bass. For us, this is the magic of hosting jazz here—the interplay becomes visible as well as audible. The artist’s current concert approach is to reveal music in layers, inviting the audience into the process: themes surface, recede, then return transformed by what was discovered on stage. Expect an arc that values patience and surprise, space and swing, glow and grit. In this chapel, the quietest moments carry far; when the music rises, it does so with purpose. Rhino Jazz Festival has always celebrated that kind of presence, and this date at Chapelle de la Trinité lets it resonate to the full.