2-CD set contains 38 comic songs by Mary Buldoc, whose works are now studied in universities. Indeed, historians prefer her version of everyday life to that described in the press of the period. However, Mary was simply describing what she saw around her, without premise and unaffected by her reputation.

2-CD set with 38 tracks contains the work of French vocalist Tino Rossi, who sang songs of love. Includes the tracks "Romance", "Pamelita", "Partir un jour", "C'est Vous", "Maria", "Ave Maria" and many others. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

"Popular song is as significant and as important as the most beautiful pieces of work. Through songs which are and have been sung by the masses, we may discover the feelings and emotions of a nation, both in times of trouble and happiness" Maurice CHEVALIER, 1947. This second 2-CD set anthology features Maurice Chevalier's recordings from 1930 to 1949. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

As a music laboratory of great influence in the southern states of America, New Orleans was instrumental in the development of American popular music, and soul in particular. Fantastic New Orleans artists and producers mixed religious and secular music, Indian and Caribbean sounds, voodoo, Jazz and Zydeco… Their soul music was born out of the fusion between those influences and the language and emotions of Gospel, creating a universal idiom that stood the world on its head. In the 32 page booklet accompanying this essential anthology, Bruno Blum provides a commentary of the metamorphosis of Negro spirituals, blues and rock into pure New Orleans soul, thanks to such legendary artists as Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Snooks Eaglin or Eddie Bo. Patrick FReMEAUX

(2-CD set) The wildest of them all. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

These recordings collected in situ by Francois Jouffa in 2015, allow us to listen to the compelling wealth of the traditional music of Southern India. This classical music from the lower part of the Indian subcontinent, called carnatic music, has age-old bases. This release contains Kathakali songs ( from the Sanskrit Theater) and ragas performed by masters of the veena (ancient Indian lute with plucked strings), temple music and groups of percussion. It is a seizing musical overview, a preeminent testimony of the Indian immaterial heritage.

This CD presents a series of concerts recorded during the spring and summer from every corner of Provence, southern France: in garrigues, heaths, rocks and cliffs, coppices, pinewoods and forests, crops and meadows, villages, marshes, a river (the Durance), the Camargue, the Crau, Mediterranean islands, and lastly a summer-time insect concert. Using the index the listener can learn to identify the 105 species of birds, amphibians and insects that are included in these concerts. Patrick Fremeaux

Stan Laferriere’s Big One brings everything in jazz history back to life, from the fi rst signs of ragtime to contemporary fusion in a tasty record you can qualify as one half tribute, one half stylistic exercise. Because while each title on the album is a Laferriere composition, they have that familiar sound which could turn them into standards as great the music they recall. Educational value, yes, but apart from any questions of period or style, this is a jazz orchestra combining power with nuance, and its precision makes it stand out thanks to Stan Laferriere’s unique feel for arrangements and his skill in instrumentation.

(2-CD set) "A drawing by Jean Cocteau lies behind the image which springs to mind whenever I think of Charles Trenet - I see him with big wings, flying across the sky..." Gilbert BeCAUD. Includes a 40 page booklet with both French and English notes.

“Bird was like the sun, giving off the energy we drew from him… In any musical situation, his ideas just bounded out, and his inspired anyone who was around.” Max ROACH The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Fremeaux & Associes by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

"The birds of France are either sedentary or migrant. The climate comprises a variety of soundscapes fashioned with a great diversity of bird songs. This sound guide features recordings compiled by Jean C. Roche and enables the listener to identify the various common species in France. Its 24-page booklet (with both French and English notes) presents all of the 99 species. To fully appreciate nature one must listen to it." Patrick Fremeaux

(2-CD set) T-Bone Walker was immensely successful after the war and strongly influenced the evolution of the blues. He was also one of the great pioneers of the electricguitar, perfecting a clear and flowing style which influenced blues and rock guitarists, from B.B. King and Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown to Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. This boxed edition traces the first part of R-Bone Walker’s career, from when he led Blind Lemon Jefferson through the streets of Dallas to his national acclaim. Includes a 24 page booklet with both French and English notes.

(2-CD set) Fats Domino, Little Richard, Bill Haley, Big Mama Thornton and Lloyd Price were soon to be considered as the pioneers of the genre and were already paving the way for Rock’n’Roll as the music of the decade, assisted by others, less celebrated but equally talented. Includes a 32 page booklet with both French and English notes.

Jean Aldegon, Claude Tissendier, Andre Villeger, Marcel Canillard, Pierre Schirrer (Saxophones, Flutes); Maurice Thomas, Jean-Pierre Ramirez, Jean-Claude Verstraete, Michel Delakian, Fernand Verstraete (Trumpets); Charles Verstraete, Benny Vasseur, Francois Guin, Emile Vilain (Trombones); Jean-Paul Charlap (Guitar); Jean-Francois Rouge (Bass); Jean-Luc Dayan (Drums); Claude Bolling (Piano).

« Charlie Parker did all the things I would like to do and more – he really had a genius, see. He could do things and he could do them melodiously so that anybody, the man in the street, could hear – that’s what I haven’t reached, that’s what I’d like to reach. » John COLTRANE

Luc Ferry is a major philosopher of our times. Also known for his political action (he was the minister for Education between 2002 and 2004), Luc Ferry has a great career as a writer and as a teacher. These skills enable him to deliver an amazingly clear-to-understand speech, exclusively recorded in studio for Fremeaux & Associes, in various set devoted to a great philosopher (Kant, Nietzsche). In this new release, Luc Ferry has chosen a different approach and explains the philosophical background of Christianity. Not as a believer, but in order to understand the evolution compared to the Greeks, and the basis of our societies. In French.

This CD of a new kind allows the listener to listen to the Voices of the Ocean. Over 58 minutes you will hear the songs and calls, indeed, the language of 5 species of Cetacea. Jean C. Roche realized this recording thanks to the Marine Mammal Fund in San Francisco and it's director, Mr Stan Minasian, who supplied him with rare and beautiful sounds. With the sounds of: Killer Whale, Beluga Whale, Narwhal Whale, Humpback, Bowhead Whale and Bearded Seals.

«A master-piece still lives on a century later. People often tell me than several of my songs will still be going in a hundred years time. I hope so but can hardly believe it. And among my songs which will supposedly live on, La Mer is always referred to. I think if I had to choose one, it would be L’Ame des Poetes! »

The Romantic touch and emotion of Russian Music united with Django Reinhardt's amazing technique.

Starring Mike Seeger, Reed Martin, Laura Boosinger.

This is a splendid contemporary interpretation of classical music from the black American heritage. Negro Spirituals, often wrongly confused with gospel, represent one of the finest forms of written music and sacred art of recent history. Canada's highly regarded independent producer Martin Duchesne made this digital recording. A magnificent tribute to the heritage of Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson.

This CD made by the famous audio-naturalist Bernard Fort, who leads the GMVL in Lyon, was constructed like a single storm moving as slowly as possible from one landscape to the next, and therefore presenting numerous variations on a single theme. We can hear it in mountains and valleys, over plains and forests, and landscapes that are either mineral or farmland, but always natural. Numerous sound recording techniques (intensity stereophony, phase amplitude, M/S stereo etc.) were used to record these eleven natural concerts, depending on the locale and context, taking great care to restore the spaces. The sounds have not been subjected to any manipulation other than selecting and assembling the sequences with great respect for their natural durations. Patrick FReMEAUX

"He was the alchemist who transformed the dark, brooding sentiment of keen, living death into ecstasy. And also the one who, in the depths of ecstasy, collected a precipitate of bitterness." 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 Art Pepper between 1950 and 1960.

This 2-CD set presents 36 standards selected lovingly and illustrated with concupiscence in a booklet of 48 colors pages by Sine.

“Jazz is our contribution to the world and us Afro-Americans, even if this world prefers to ignore it and always tries to make it the product of something else.” Art BLAKEY 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 Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers between 1947 and 1959.