Prospectus, winners of Jazz Migration's Class of 2023, create a sound with four voices, and emphasise the freedom of the discourses that intersect and intermingle. Resolutely acoustic, their music is raw, spontaneous and telluric. The compositions, influenced by the current New York free music scene and historic figures such as Ornette Coleman, Keith Jarrett and Steve Lacy, are by turns repetitive, pared-down or ruinous, leaving room for the expressiveness and lyricism of the musicians.

Concert organised as part of Jazz Migration, a support scheme for emerging jazz and improvised music musicians run by AJC, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the BNP Paribas Foundation, SACEM, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, CNM, SPPF and the Institut Français.

Since he took over the Artistic Direction of the ONJ in 2018, Fred Maurin has regularly invited other artists to take the reins of an orchestra which is now more polymorphous than ever and open to diversity. For this ambitious new program, he has teamed up with American saxophonist and composer Steve Lehman, both seeking to adapt the language of spectral music – developed in France in the 1970s by composers such as Tristan Murail and Gérard Grisey – to the format of a modern jazz large ensemble. Leading a 15-piece band, assisted by two computer music specialists from the IRCAM laboratories, Maurin and Lehman use a wide range of strategies to explore the possibilities of human-machine interaction, inventing a truly magical sound world.