Jazz, blues and nostalgia, today with a French twist.
With a lyrical Charles Aznavour about the miracle that takes place when a woman is singing, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton who was immensely popular in France in the fifties, where he hastily cobbled together a group of musicians and made recordings which were �tr�s fabuleux, like�’Je ne sais pas’. Furthermore Blossom Dearie, the singer with the delicate voice, in her French period, the temporary voice artist Sly Johnson, who, together with trumpeter Erik Truffaz, created a hypnotizing sound universe, Edith Piaf in duet with her youthful husband Th�o Sarapo, who found out to have inherited a million dollar debt when she died and who was evicted from their home during Christmas, of all times. "The House Which No Longer Sings", he sang bitterly.And some cycling songs. Like a nice observation from Herman van Veen about a little girl on a staggering bicycle and a touching song from Robert Long about the father that could have been his friend, but they were not on speaking terms, and when he sees him, cycling, old and bent down, he wants nothing more than to call out to him, but he simply can’t. And also: Charles Trenet, Chet Baker, Jacques Brel, the Quintette of the Hot Club de France and Fay Lovsky.�
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