Jazz, and Java have had for all eternity only two words to say. They are stories of man and women, songs of musicians that owe and play at the same time for the dancers and for the musicians. Yes : a music of musician for musician. Franck Bergerot has united only the best artists, the most famous (Marcel Azzola), the most surprising (the voval virtuosity of Minvielle) and tender ones. LaValse a Margaux by Richard Galliano is perfect. That's rare, perfection.

Ferdinand, Helene, Reine and... Jean! The entire Gabin family. A good old Parisian name now part of cinema's legend. In fact, if every film enthusiast knows the mythical Jean Gabin, few are those who remember Gabin's debut in the French chanson and Parisian cabarets... This 2-CD boxed set does more than only presenting all Jean Gabin's songs published, it also features the songs of Gabin's father! A truly artistic family! Includes a 16 page booklet with both French and English notes.

(2-CD set) The virtuosic, exhuberant and extroverted entertainer and harmonica player Sonny Terry principally represented the perpetuation of the old Appalachian Mountain style, which went back to the first period of Black music, before the instrument adopted a quite different orchestral dimension in the Memphis jug bands. Sonny Terry was very popular in the folk circles in the '50s and his influence on most Yankee and European harpists was enormous. However, we must not overlook his vast quantity of recordings from 1938-53, interpreting blues, rhythm & blues, folk and rock 'n roll - this CD presents all the various facets of this talented artist.

“On discovering The Man I Love at a tender age, we understood that this was the man we loved and would still love for a long time to come. The irrational motive being that it was the kind of love which tirelessly transports us to the very heart of that elsewhere in which our own secret lies simmering, in hiding from our own eyes.” 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 presents a selection of the best recordings by Miles Davis between 1954 and 1960.

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

“Si nous ne cessons de considerer Sor sur un point de vue aussi eleve, nous devons nous empresser de dire que c’est lui qui a fait sortir la guitare de l’orniere ou l’avait plonge le genre de musique adopte avant lui”. L'ENCYCLOPEDIE PITTORESQUE DE LA MUS

Album features Thierry Lang on piano, Ivor Malherbe on double bass and Marcel Papaux on drums.

(11-CD box set) This is the second CD box set of Michel Onfray's "counter-history of philosophy." Here, 11 lessons professed by great French philosopher Michel Onfray reveal the thoughts and theories of a time previous Socrates - from Epicurus to Diogenes of Oenanda. In French.

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.

A tribute to Django Reinhardt can be an expected, relatively easy thing to do if you play jazz guitar, especially if your name is Romane, a spearhead on the gypsy-jazz scene. Yet this «tribute album» from Romane deliberately goes against the grain in imagining the Master’s caravan coming to a halt outside the New York label Blue Note’s studios in the early 60’s. As you might guess from its decidedly “Sixties” title, Romane peppers Django’s compositions with the then-nascent jazz-soul groove of musicians like Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff and Lonnie Smith. Goodbye “pump”, goodbye traditional swing… Here Romane is in the company of an unavoidable duo—Benoît Sourisse (Hammond organ), Andre Charlier (drums)—and bassist Marc Michel Le Bevillon. A success when first released, this album heralded “Roots & Groove” which surfaced nine years later (FA537), an album where Romane explored jazz-funk in an even more clear-cut vein. Augustin BONDOUX As the publisher of the complete recordings of Django Reinhardt — the set is a work of reference with 40CDs and booklets totalling 760 pages — Fremeaux & Associes today counts as one of the premier independent producers of gypsy jazz. This genre, as erudite and technical as it is generous and approachable, demonstrates the cultural and musicological richness of the gypsy contribution to western culture. Romane is one of their most eminent representatives and his compositions have become genuine standards. Fremeaux & Associes celebrates the work of this guitarist in a collection covering his entire career as a recording artist, available to the public as a “Complete Works” set with Djangovision as its eight volume. Patrick FReMEAUX

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.

“Nobody can sit down at the piano and play and think as fast as that. It's impossible; you can't think that far ahead. He's happy just to put his hands on the keyboard, and his fingers start playing.” Count Basie 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 Oscar Peterson between 1950 and 1958.

Featuring Claude Bolling - Georges Arvanitas - Andre Persiani - Alain Jean Marie - Claude Carriere - Philippe Baudoin - Aaron Bridgers - Patrice Galas - Patrice Authier - Henri Renaud - Stan Laferriere. Includes a 4 page booklet with both French and English notes.

“When Bird left New York he was a king, but out in Los Angeles he was just another broke, weird, drunken nigger playing some strange music. Los Angeles is a city built on celebrating stars and Bird didn’t look like no star.” M. DAVIS 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.

(2-CD set) "...Too wonderstruck at being together not to remain chaste lovers, content to entwine nothing but their music. Lovers unconcerned by cracks in a porcelaine sky, performing miracles as others perform songs". Alain GERBER. Includes a 20 page booklet with both French and English notes.