The JAS Cafe features intimate jazz performances in multiple venues around Aspen. Enjoy candlelit performances from some of the greatest jazz artists from around the world alongside delicious food and beverages.
Cyrille Aimee
Vocalist Cyrille Aimée was primarily raised in France by a French-Dominican parentage. As a curious child in Samois-sur-Seine, she would sneak out of her bedroom window to wander into the nearby gypsy encampments filled with those attending the annual Django Reinhardt Festival.
She quickly fell in love with gypsy music and way of life; years later she would sing on street corners with musician friends while traveling across Europe. While in the midst of one such odyssey, she found herself at the Montreux Jazz Festival, where she won first prize in the vocal competition—which included the financing of her first self-produced album.
Winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival's Vocal Competition, the Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal Competition and finalist in the Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition, Aimée is—in the words of Will Friedwald of The Wall Street Journal—"one of the most promising jazz singers of her generation." In the same Wall Street Journal feature (which included vocalist Cecile McLorin Salvant), Friedwald declared both to be “astonishing creative singers, with a brilliant sound, fresh ideas, impeccable rhythm and an overall approach that honors tradition without being shackled to the past."
Other Summer JAS Cafe Performances
June 22 Hiromi Duet Feat. Edmar Castaneda
June 29-30 Jamison Ross
July 7-8 Dr. Lonnie Smith - Evolution
July 14 Butler, Bernstein, & The Hot 9
July 15 Clint Holmes & The H2 Big Band: From Sinatra to Ray Charles
July 29-30 Ella & Louis: Together Again - Bryon Stripling & Carmen Bradford
August 10 Cyrille Aimee
August 11 Cubanismo
August 12 Take 6
August 18 Eliane Elias: 100 Years of Samba!
August 19 Nnenna Freelon
August 20 Jacob Collier
