Médéric Collignon & Jus de Bocse - Célèbre Michel Portal

On April 25, 2026 at the Sunset Sunside, Médéric Collignon puts his cornet and his voice back at the center of the music to celebrate Michel Portal. With Jus de Bocse, his electric playground, he dives into the world of the clarinetist-saxophonist and composer, revisiting it without forced reverence: rearranged themes, gripping motifs, sharp breaks and taut pauses. Collignon uses the voice as a full-fledged instrument — part singing, part scat, part declamation — in direct interplay with a nervy cornet. The written material provides an anchor, improvisation opens the floodgates, and the rhythmic drive oscillates between free jazz, funk and echoes of progressive rock. Moods shift from chamber-like to in-your-face, blurring the line between acoustic and electric. At the core are collective energy and the art of the counter-move, Portal-style, reinterpreted by Jus de Bocse. In Paris, at the Sunset Sunside, audiences come to hear how this legacy circulates, is refreshed and finds new voices, from the mouth to the brass, from motif to cry.