An undocumented record brought back from the limbos of the music industry.
Folk songs from North Korea.
Six sides that were not really supposed to leave their country of origin and eventually ended up in the south of France, 70 years later.
“Notre blues à nous, c’est le musette” (Boris Vian)
"Our own Blues is Musette" (Boris Vian). ~ Updated 10/16/2023 ~ Interview with Christian Van Den Broeck, Dominique Cravic and Robert Crumb to celebrate the release of their book about the history of musette, and 20 sides from my personnal collection.
Swing Time ! With G.I. Jill on the G.I. Jive
G.I. Jive was the AEF "juke box of the air" during WWII, hosted by the most famous AFRS performer: G.I. Jill.
~ June 2020 update: a little bit of everything ~
Details of the posts that have been updated, upgraded or revised this spring.
Early jazz recordings in Paris: Bands you know nothing about.
A detective work was required to draw a (still incomplete) portrait of these bands for which history has been lost.
Dance ! Tonight ! …at the barn !
...or more acurately: dance tonight at home, just like at the barn parties ! Thanks to recorded fiddle tunes with calls and the WLS National Barn Dance artists.
The John Lomax legacy: field recordings for the preservation of folk songs.
John Lomax was the first to record folk songs in the wild in the early 10's. He opened the way for many other folklorists and ethnomusicologists around the world, desperate to save local cultures that could quickly disapear.
Odd coupling on a Bluebird record.
Jazz and Country are not usually coupled together...
Early jazz recordings in Paris: F. Howard Jackson & his orchestra (the complete session).
Totally forgotten today, the Howard Jackson's orchestra was one, if not the first american band to record "jass" in France. [updated 11/2021]
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