This 4-CD set pays tribute to the French poet Jacques Prevert. He is generally considered as the 20th century’s greatest writer. For his words are simple. They are intended for those they describe. The tragic aspect is never absolute for Prevert – the last word is always with humour. Prevert was an author for commoners, an aristocrat of the streets. Each of the CDs is dedicated to a particular topic (childhood, love, music, freedom) and features a selection of Prevert’s texts read by the author himself or by great actors, his friends (radio archives) – including interviews of his contemporaries. In French..

The Vintage Jazzmen are: Dan Vernhettes-leader, trumpet * Tommy Sanction-clarinet * Olivier Beuffe-trombone * Siphan Upravan-banjo * Enzo Mucci-doublebass * Guillaume Nouaux-drums * Guests: Tori Robinson & Jonice Jamison-vocals. Track listing: Mazie * Heartaches * Canal Street Blues * Red Wing * My Daddy Rocks Me * Song of the Wanderer * Messin' Around * I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen * Katrina Blues * St. Philip Street Breakdown * Give it up * Glory land * Snag it * Don't Go Away Nobody * Too Late * Let it Shine.

“This record offers you a chance to take a one hour journey through the stereophonic sounds of the various natural habitats to be found on the Island of Borneo. You may use it as a guide to the animal species, which the indications on the sleeve will enable you to identify, or simply enjoy the natural sounds.” Patrick Fremeaux

“Sing, oh black Mother, song is a strong thing.” Langston HUGHES’s poem “Spirituals“ The complete Mahalia Jackson recordings (presented chronologically as in the Sister Rosetta Tharpe series) reveal a personality who will remain one of the greatest-ever Gospel artists, a singer who filled 20th century Afro-American culture with inspiration. The source of this vital music is the collection of Jean Buzelin, the author of this anthology, together with the aid of collectors of Mahalia Jackson's work; all these recordings have been restored with the best analog transfers and most sophisticated technology available, to avoid any alteration of the original sound.

“For almost three years the world’s greatest guitarist lived the blissful life of a retired deputy stationmaster. His happiness was such that nothing or nobody could pull him away from his vegetative contentment, from this Hindu civil servant’s nirvana”. Yves SALGUES

“These two exceptional musicians are identical: they're both very demanding; they're absolutely bursting with enthusiasm; and both of them get a bit wary if you treat them like friends too quickly! I wanted to bring them together for a series of concerts at the Salle Cortot, and it was two years before the idea finally took shape. Little by little, the two of them came to trust me… Today the record has finally come out!” Franck Mossler

“Dressed as a woman in delicacy and distinction, and wearing an air of seriousness and honourability, the hard core of jazz, its irreducible specifity, slips incognito into the china-shop and, once inside, takes off its mask.” Alain Gerber Fremeaux & Associes’ « Quintessence » products have undergone an analogical and digital restoration process which is recognized throughout the world. Each 2 CD set edition includes liner notes in English as well as a guarantee. This 2 CD set present a selection of the best recordings by the Modern Jazz Quartet between 1952 and 1960.

(2-CD set) "This unfortunate man's adventure was an example of the harsh life of an artist and man in a world of suffering and hostility which he couldn't or refused to accept." - Lucien Malson. This collection features Charlie Parker with the Neal Hefti Orchestra, Charlie Parker All Stars, Charlie Parker with strings, Charlie Parker Quintet, Machito & His Afro-Cuban Orchestra, Norman Granz jam session, Charlie Parker Quintet with strings, the Quintet of the Year, Charlie Parker Quartet, and the Stan Kenton Orchestra with Charlie Parker.

(2-CD set) Josh White’s super guitar playing is stylistically somewhere between Lonnie Johnson and the fingerpicking style of the Carolinas. Not only was he one of the great originators of the East coast blues, but his political belifs made him one of the major american folk singers, an inspiration to the folk movement. this set contains some of the best blues, folk songs and spirituals by one of the most important figures in american popular music. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

The University Press of France and Fremeaux & Associes offer a special course on the history of philosophy, given here by Pierre Guenancia, professor at the University of Burgundy and specialist in the history of modern philosophy. After a first course, “De Descartes a Hume,” we are pursuing now a new path taken by contemporary philosophy at the end of the 19th century, the “way of consciousness.” Philosophy does not want to be a philosophical system anymore, rather, its ambition is to return things to themselves and describe the phenomena such as they give themselves to consciousness. Husserl opened the way to Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur, the great figures of the twentieth century philosophy that Pierre Guenancia presents to us in this release.

(3-CD box set) After having been Prime Minister for President Leopold Sedar Senghor, Abdou Diouf himself became President of the Republic of Senegal from 1981-2000. Retired from the political life of his country, M. Abdou Diouf is, since 2002, General Secretary of the International Organization for the French-Speaking World. His long and brilliant career has made him a major observer and thinker of Senegalese democracy and, moreover, of African political and spiritual contemporary life.

This 4 CDs set delivers a selection of the political debates held in the National Assembly of France about Abortion, between November and December 1974. As result of these historical debates, a law was voted in order to authorize abortion. For the very first time on CD, more than 4 hours of the passionate discussions between the politicians are given to the public’s attention. In French (with Simone Veil, Henry Berger, Helene Misoffe, Jacques-Antoine Gau, Jacques Chambaz, Jean Foyer, Lucien Neuwirth, Louis Mexandeau, Jean Desanlis, Alexandre Bolo, Albin Chalandon, Rene Feït, Loïc Bouvard, Jacques Medecin, Etienne Pinte, Claude Peyret, Raymond Forni, Michel Debre, Pierre Bas, Justin Hausherr, Jean Bastide).

Jean Cocteau’s sound producer Fred Kiriloff have compiled a four-CD boxed set of historic Cocteau recordings, including Parade, Jean Cocteau’s Theatre, Les Voleurs d’Enfants (The Abductors), La Toison d’Or (The Golden Fleece), La Machine Infernale (The Infernal Mechanism), La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), Presentation of the Group of Six, Le Bel Indifferent (The Callous Beau), Les Parents Terribles, Reception Speech at the Academie Francaise. Plus previously unissued items, such as: L’Arbre de Noël (The Christmas Tree), Crucifixion, Nuit de Noël (Christmas Night) and the Preface to Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel (The Eiffel Tower Wedding).Cocteau’s world involved collaborations with Francis Poulenc, Eric Satie, Marianne Oswald, Suzy Solidor, Edith Piaf, Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Diaghilev, Picasso and more. Includes a 48 page booklet with both French and English notes.

(3-CD box set) Admiral Philippe de Gaulle - Charles de Gaulle's son - wrote his memoirs in 2004. This best-seller created many controversies to which this conference with Michel Tauriac (with whom the Admiral had written his book), explaining softly and lively about the Admiral's extraordinary life, should give an answer. In French.

During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, carnival music crystallized Brazil’s identity. The Marchinhas, sambas and frevos helped to bond the social classes and open Brazil to modern means of communication. Our anthology principally considers what was known as ‘a epoca de ouro’, a period lasting over twenty years and which witnessed a melting pot of talented singers, composers, lyricists and arrangers. Teca Calazans