Left to its own devices these last few years, jazz musette Strikes Back! The Swing of France trio have not only inherited the swing waltzes of Tony Murena, Gus Viseur and Jo Privat: they also perpetuate the legacy of the “Paris Musette” collective that put the squeeze-box back in the spotlight some 30 years ago. The trio shows great brio in reviving the melodic force of this universal music, warm, sophisticated… and commonly known as “the Paris blues." The public had forgotten jazz musette, but Swing of France is striking back, and conquest of the galaxy is near!

“I don’t think there’s a single pianist in jazz today, whatever the generation, who hasn’t been influenced by Errol Garner.” Jimmie NOWLES 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 Erroll Garner between 1948 and 1962.

This CD presents the songs of Pierre Louki interpreted by Gabriel Bacquier (an encounter arranged by Jacques Bolognesi). Gabriel Bacquier, worldwide known for his 50 years career as a one of the leading baritones of the 20th century is particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Bacquier enters the studio again to record a “fantaisie”: the songs and poems of Pierre Louki!

"This 10-CD set box features ten conferences held by the prestigious "Universite de tous les savoirs". The title and subject of these conferences is "Islams d'aujourd'hui" (Today's Islams). This boxset delivers 10 points of view on 10 contemporary and complementary subjects. Historians and scientists of both France and Northern Africa have been invited to share their knowledge. In French." Patrick Fremeaux

This 4 CD set delivers a selection of Marcel Proust's novel "Du côte de chez Swann" (Swann's way in English) the first volume of "A la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"). This masterpiece of French literature is read by famed actor Daniel Mesguich. Audiobook in French.

After shaking cocktail music (and Fifties exotica) wide awake in his impossibly "cult" first album - Songs for Cabriolets, FA8565, released in year 2000 - Karl Zero made his musical comeback in 2005 when he hatched this "HiFi Calypso" after rising to meet a sizeable challenge: to lure Bob Marley's legendary Wailers away from Jamaica, and then have them play mento and calypso, the genres that gave reggae it's sources. Relying on his phony "frog" accent, singsong chat and debonair tenderness, Karl came up with 15 tracks that brimmed with sunshine. Every one of these is a sugarcane delight, with tasty flavours delicately aged in barrels of rum to produce this vintage postcard in sound.

At times a Cab Calloway-type zany MC, at others a crooner (who makes the language of Goethe look noble in terms of seduction), a big-band entertainer A la francaise like Henri Salvador, or even a whimsical character revisiting French chanson, Robeurt Feneck seems to come straight from the opium-dens of the Roaring Twenties. As a solo excursion for the Pink Turtle drummer (a worldfamous outfit if ever there was), the Mad in Swing orchestra has an excellent fealing for parodies and plays host to almost every style in jazz, from Swing (of course) to Cool Jazz — note the sauce added by Francois Biensan to bring even more zip to the pop of the 70s and 80s — via Cuban music or New Orleans-type gospel. Yes, Robeurt Feneck, the dandy and seducer, sure knows how to please the ladies… Setting the record straight for everyone, this is a disc where pants that don’t reach your ankles never looked so good! Augustin BONDOUX

Fiddler Ian McCamy is joined by guitarist Angus Aird, drummer Olivier Chambonniere and flautist/bassist Pascal Segard on a collection of 15 songs and dance tunes, including jigs, reels, rags and more. Features fanciful cover art and illustrations by R. Crumb.

After the unanimous welcome given to the refreshing “Rag’n Boogie” album (FA8507), this new “Boogies on the Ball” marks a great return to the studios by Sebastien Troendle, and it shows: he’s a rumbling pianist with thunder at his fingertips, immense feeling, and an unwavering vocation for handing down his love for boogie woogie. Sebastien even wrote a method for the style (published by Henry Lemoine) and he has played the boogie genre worldwide in shows (Avignon), concerts and master classes that include his noticeable appearance at the 2016 Scott Joplin Festival in Sedala, Missouri, USA. “Boogies on the Ball” has 14 leaping titles, all of them timeless classics in a universe where this music has never been out of fashion.

This release is the second installment in Veronica Roth's renowned Divergent series. Abandoning a city with fire and blood, Tris is on the run. Thanks to her faculties, she managed to escape from the Erudite's program, which manipulated and launched the Bold soldiers to attack the Altruists. In three days, Tris lost her faction, his friends, his parents. With her brother, Caleb, and her boyfriend, Tobias, she has to find allies among the other factions. Marine Royer reads the book in French.

This release is the only album presently available that is dedicated solely to the birds of Northern Africa. It includes the songs and calls of the fifty-two species which are most representative of North West Africa, classed by family in systematic order. The area covered includes Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, as well as the northern part of the Sahara. A fabulous concert, recorded in stereo at the extensive temporary lakes that develop once every ten years or so to the south of Ouarzazate Morocco and used by many thousands of birds is added at the beginning of this release. Publisher of guides of species, natural landscapes, primitive human cultures close to the sounds of nature, The Librarie Sonore- Fremeaux & Associes’ goal is to form the first sound catalog of ecosystems, a permanent memory of life and acoustic biodiversity in an ecological and pedagogical vocation.

This release celebrates the testimony of Edgar Morin. Sociologist, philosopher, former research director at the CNRS, founder of journals, and also a committed and warm man. Edgar Morin is one of the most important French thinkers of his time. Illustrious throughout the world, his books are translated into thirty languages and he is a Doctor Honoris at multiple universities. Morin's work is obsessive over the concern for knowledge - that it is neither mutilated nor compartmentalized.

Luc Ferry, philosopher and former Minister of education, delivers a treaty of Philosophy ment as an introduction to the history of human thinking. Improvised course based upon his best-seller book "Apprendre A vivre. Traite de philosophie A l'usage des jeunes generations", these 4 CDs are a perfect didactic material to consider more than 20 centuries of philosophy. Five great periods of this international and timeless history are explained by Luc Ferry in the clearest and easiest vocabulary to allow the listener to reach the deep roots of our way of thinking. In French.

If Django Reinhardt’s “Gypsy Swing” legacy has a worldwide following today – with even mass audiences enjoying its renaissance – we shouldn’t overlook the years when the style went into decline after the death of Django, its Great Architect, in 1953. During years of oblivion, Django’s music was handed down (by ear!) in trailer-parks & caravans, played at gypsy-gatherings in Saint-Ouen, and swapped by collectors of rare records. But it’s no exaggeration to say that a few people managed to save the music from darkness by ensuring its practise amongst musicians from outside that small gypsy circle. And it’s equally unpretentious to say that Romane was one of the pioneering happy few in the course of this music’s revival. Today, Fremeaux & Associes celebrates Romane‘s importance with this first volume of a complete set of his recordings; entitled Swing for Ninine, it is devoted to... the Renaissance! Benjamin GOLDENSTEIN & Patrick FReMEAUX

A jazz pioneer (the first soloist to be recorded), and the genre’s first great saxophonist — his vibrato was unique, with a typically Creole feeling for syncopation, Sidney Bechet was part of the late 19th century New Orleans generation which formed the exuberant melting-pot that came to be known as jazz. His compositions were unrivalled in sensibility, writing the history of 20th century music and influencing countless musicians. In 2009, his son, Daniel Sidney Bechet, the French-American drummer, wrote a book about him and decided to form a quintet to perpetuate the memory and legacy of his father. Together with Olivier Franc, probably one of the greatest New Orleans jazz specialists (he was awarded the Sidney Bechet Prize by France’s “Academie du Jazz” and the “Hot Club de France” Prize), Daniel-Sidney discovered and arranged two previously-unreleased compositions by Sidney and, fifty years after his father’s disappearance, they went on tour… This recording takes its strength not only from the Bechet bloodline but also from the authenticity in the performance, and the result is a tribute to an artist who commanded a respect we must all share. Augustin BONDOUX & Patrick FReMEAUX