(2-CD set) Lester Young, on exile from a future wich would have never happened. - TRACK LISTING: THEM THERE EYES. CHEROKEE, part 1&2. I AIN'T GOT NOBODY. (LET ME) LIVE AND LOVE TONIGHT. LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME. TWELVTH STREET RAG. MISS THING, part 1&2. SONG OF THE ISLANDS. I NEVER KNEW. SOMETIMES I'm HAPPY. SIX CATS AND A PRINCE. DESTINATION KC. JO-JO. FOUR O'CLOCK DRAG. POOR LITTLE PLAYTHING. KANSAS CITY STRIDE. BASIE STRIDES AGAIN (ALONG AVENUE C). THE MIDNIGHT SYMPHONY. ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET (1). D.B. BLUES. THESE FOOLISH THINGS. I CAN'T GET STARTED. I'VE FOUND A NEW BABY. MEAN TO ME. SLOW DRAG. YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY. LESTER'S BE BOP BOOGIE. SHE'S FUNNY THAT WAY. S.M. BLUES. JUMPIN' WITH SYMPHONY SID (1). NO EYES BLUES. ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET (2). EASY DOES IT. JUMPIN' WITH SYMPHONY SID (2)

This CD contains 12 compositions by Claude Bolling dedicated to 12 jazz pianists. Tracks include: An Oscar For Oscar (Oscar Peterson), Count On Him (Count Basie), Bis-Scott Rag (Scott Joplin), Dear George (George Shearing), Dave The Brave (Dave Brubeck), Midnight On Thelonius (Thelonius Monk), Duke On My Mind (Duke Ellington), Fatty Fats (Fats Waller), Ramsey The Pharaon (Ramsey Lewis), With Art and Fun (Art Tatum), Roll Jerry Roll (Jerry Roll Morton), Erroll in Blue (Erroll Garner).

(2-CD set) The pianist who loaded high voltage into every line. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

“In the early fifties Ernest Leardee, with his West Indian orchestra, played a major role in the popularization of tropical music in France. He enables us to discover singer Andre Salvador, Henri Salvador’s elder brother, in unissued and extremely rare recordings.” J.-P. Meunier & P. Fremeaux

”Her pure talent caused a huge stir when she appeared in the world of Fado at the age of 19, and for several decades, both at home and abroad, Amália Rodrigues symbolized the quintessence of this urban popular genre whose heart lay in Lisbon. Amália made the reper-toire richer by introducing major new composers and poets who seduced intellectuals, yet she never renounced her origins: she remained devoted to the most traditional Fado styles. This new Fremeaux release gives new life to 38 exemplary titles recorded between 1945 and1957, the decade in which Amália Rodrigues won international acclaim while creating the history of modern Fado.” Teca CALAZANS & Philippe LESAGE

“From the festive music of rural Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to the rich harmonies of the choro and alloys in sound that characterize pure American jazz, the beautiful instrument known as the accordion has adapted to every social and musical context of the New World.” Teca CALAZANS et Philippe LESAGE

A Counter History of Philosophy by famous French philosopher Michel Onfray - with 400 000 records sold until today! "A parallel history of thinking, that rehabilitates the hedonist and materialist tradition, that resuscitates the gnostics, libertines, baroques, dyonisiac socialists, free spirits and other visionaries..." Robert Maggiori, Liberation

“Dinah Washington, the “Queen of the blues”, was the most outstanding blues artist among female jazz singers and the greatest female jazz vocalist to sing the blues! She occupies a place in the history of Afro American vocal art at the summit, alongside Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson and Ella Fitzgerald. Jean Buzelin allows the listener to discover the amazing talent of Dinah Washington in this 42 titles double CD-set accompanied with a French and English 24 pages booklet.” Patrick Fremeaux

Initially released in the year 2000, Karl Zéro's first album, a little pop gem, reached cult status. Inside this tribute to extreme cocktail music, space age pop and late Fifties' exotica, audiences discovered thirteen deliciously 'vintage' acid drops, cha cha chas and other ritmos locos... Produced by Karl Zéro and Alexandre Desplat, the album, recorded in Karl's own inimitable, singer/talk-show presenter style, contains a mischievous mix of poetry and humour that takes Henri Salvador, Daisy d'Errata and Eric Laugérias for a ride in the wake of Marino Marini, Xavier Cugat or Mikis Theodorakis. A kind of musical U.F.O., this record adorned one of the most remarkable X-Files episodes and met with international success.

The lushness of the Tropics, scantily-clad bodies, tribal aesthetics and syncopated rhythms… from the famous loincloth worn by Josephine Baker to Elizabeth Taylor’s performance as Cleopatra, Africa has always had a place of choice in the popular imagery of the 20th century. Whether as roots giving unity to separate black identities, the cradle of humanity, or the reflection of original purity, Africa - real, supposed or imaginary - has influenced most of the music, dance-forms and graphic arts of the last hundred years. With detailed comments from Bruno Blum, these splendid titles have been placed in the historic context of the Civil Rights struggle and the independence of the West Indies and the dark continent. Patrick FReMEAUX

We are all familiar with the skylark, the "lark ascending". But few are aware that it is just one among many species in the lark family. To look at, they are all rather similar: small and clad in a mixture of earthy browns. But when you hear their songs, how completely different they are. On this CD you will hear the songs of the nine European species.

(2-CD set) An astounding voice, a thrilling guitar, encounters with blues and boogie pianist Sammy Price and the superb contralto Marie Knight, Sister Rosetta Tharpe continues to swing the gospel in her own inimitable fashion! Includes a 24 page booklet with both French and English notes.

This box-set portrays the Fado of the latter half of the twentieth century. A true form of blues with distinct Latin colours, Fado expresses the cultural amotion of Portugal.

For an intimate understanding of a Kota reliquary or a great Fang mask you have to feel the fresh damp of the forest, the dull sounds in the vastness beneath the foliage, the lacy filigree of every different bird species combined with the symphony of animal groups in concert… in turn obeying the commands of variations in temperature, rain and wind. They represent a natural ode to the legitimate syncretism of nature and culture, because we are indeed in Nature. Pierre Huguet’s 1990 field recordings in the heart of the virgin forest constitute a sensorial experience for all those who wish to listen to the Congolese tree canopy of the sculptors of indigenous art. The forest of Man.

This historical recording session captured on DVD is the successful outcome of the mutual admiration of two great jazz artists: Claude Bolling and Stephane Grappelli. Here, the combination of the talents of Bolling's swinging 17-piece big band and the virtuosity of Grappelli's violin make a stunning visual document. Color, 53 minutes, in French and English.

Eloïsa Matheu and Francesc Llimona left for East Africa at the end of the dry season, when the Blue Wildbeest begin their migration south. They recorded in the big National Parks: Maasai Mara, Amboseli and Kakuru Lake in Kenya, then Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Manyara in Tanzania. The concerts which are successively recorded, aim at recreating the general atmosphere of these landscapes. Different biotopes fuse into one another. Birds are everywhere and sounds interweave. Patrick FReMEAUX

Born into a family of famous gypsy musicians in Belgium, Tcha Limberger is a violinist whose sincerity is as attractive as his virtuosity when he wields his bow. Noting that gypsy jazz had an American matrix — threads of New Orleans and Swing — he took a closer interest in the original music of the Hungarian gypsies known as Tziganes who settled in Central Europe. He went to Hungary for a year and a half, an initiatory voyage on which he met with the best musicians, also learning Hungarian. In 2009 he founded the Gypsy Budapest Orchestra with support from Dave Kelbie, the great British producer of Evan Christopher, Fapy Lafertin etc. Today, Limberger’s violin brilliantly reincarnates Magyar nota, the great popular repertoire of Hungary (between folk and classical music) that had gone into decline. Tcha Limberger is internationally recognized: he triumphed at the 2015 opening of World Music Expo (Womex), and received France Musique’s World Award at Babel Med the same year. This recording have been nominated in the Songlines Music Awards 2016. Augustin BONDOUX & Patrick FReMEAUX

Santos Chillemi is travels between three musical roads: Argentina, jazz and classical. On this CD he pays homage to the traditional South-American repertoire. Features la cumparsita today / Arraigado / Chacarera / Malambo / Milonga de los recuerdos / Besame mucho / La flor de la canela / Tomo y obligo / El dia que me quieras / El choclo burlon / La quimera o Balderrama / Alfonsina / La pome-ña / La cumparsita today (radio version) and others.

"This Compact Disc provides the listener with 13 concerts, in true live stereo, recorded during May in the famous Bialowieja National Park, in the far east of Poland. The absence of the normal noise associated with our mechanical world, and the cathedral effect on the bird songs, unknown in western Europe, such as of the Thrush Nightingales, the Barred Warbler and Collared and Red-breasted Flycatcher, all kept in rhythm by the drumming of woodpeckers, of witch there are no less than eight species in this forest. Recording made by Thierry Gaultier and Jean-Claude Roche and described in a 8 pages French and English booklet." Patrick FReMEAUX 13 Natural Soundscapes recorded in a mixed mature forest with undergrowth, grounds around the village, and in the protected primeval forest.

(2-CD set) If John Lee Hooker is a wise man of today, the remarkable debut of his commercial career must not be forgotten. He was once a sort of crazy young dog, the heart-throb of manu a dame who heard him play in the cabarets of Detroit's black ghetto. Young and wild... This boxed set depicts the first musical years of one of the biggest names in the history of the Blues. Includes a 24 page booklet with both French and English notes.

(2-CD set) For the first time ever, the Sound Archives Institute allows us to listen to the original recordings of one of the greatest symbolic events of the 20th century - the sinking of the Titanic and offers a sequential presentation on two compact discs, covering the historical accounts as given by surviving eyewitnesses. These sound documents, issued for the very first time, come complete with a substantial 88-page booklet. Moreover, for the first time since 1912, we can hear the authentic sound of the Titanic's whistle! NB : During the Titanic's transatlantic crossing in April 1912, both French and English speaking passengers were aboard. Half of the accounts are in French and the other half in English. English versions of the French accounts are provided in the booklet for added comprehension.

Featuring: David Herzhaft - Thierry Reocreux - Philippe Jeoffroy - Vincent Cordel - Philippe Gaillot - Renaud Van Welden Apres Jean-Jacques Milteau, David Herzhaft s'affirme comme le nouvel harmoniciste francais.

“When Georges sings you can hear kisses fly through the air.” Frederic DARD, quoted by Janine Guetary Dany Lallemand has compiled three CDs of material which cover Georges Guetary's early career including his great hits. From his first, pre-war recordings to the days when he was a star, both in France (“La route fleurie”) and internationally (“An American In Paris”), this selection comes as a timely reminder that Georges Guetary was a key-personality in the world of French Chanson and music-hall. Claude COLOMBINI

Didier and Francis Lockwood have been fixtures of the French jazz scene for thirty years, but their Brothers album, originally recorded for the Ames label in 2008, featured them together for the first time. Francis Lockwood's piano and the violin of his brother Didier function together in perfect alchemy here, the only instruments present on the recording. The result is an intimate, delicate dive into a universe of their own design where their talents, complicity and connivance are shaped by the closeness of their relation as brothers.

This double CD includes nine long natural concerts recorded at night in stereo, from different parts of the world (Provence, Dombes and Brittany in France and Elbe Island, Sardinia, the Danube Delta, Canada and Kenya). The author, a music composer, lets time take its course in his recordings, allowing the listener to really feel the beauty of nocturnal calm during more than one hour. Patrick Fremeaux