Jazz concert event: Marvin Gaye's cover of What's Going On

The best hopes of the young British jazz scene gathered to celebrate the half-century of Marvin Gaye's masterpiece, What's Going On, within the Nu Civilisation Orchestra. More than twenty musicians for a contemporary re-reading of a soul classic.
 

Published in 1971 by a Marvin Gaye then in the grip of depression, What's Going On is one of the greatest masterpieces of twentieth century popular music. Produced by the singer himself, conceived as a cycle of nine richly orchestrated songs with the appearance of a humanist and committed manifesto, the album evokes - as a backlash against the Vietnam War - issues related to ecology, drugs and poverty. A commitment and questions that still resonate today with a particular acuity, even more so when the musicians of the Nu Civilisation Orchestra get hold of them.