Jazz Nouvelle-Orléans

Unique collaboration d’Ernest Gold pour Otto Preminger ! Le travail d’Ernest Gold pour la musique du film a été récompensé par un Oscar en 1961. Le film eut un énorme succès à sa sortie, il est considéré comme le chef-d’œuvre du cinéaste.

"Mélodie à la fois sophistiquée et élégante, qui n'était pas forcément la caractéristique majeure de ses deux auteurs. "You Go to My Head" deviendra un grand succès l'année même de sa création 1938, par la chanteuse Bea Wain, avec l'orchestre du trompettiste Larry Clinton." Laurent Valero

"Eden Ahbez was a hippie before there were hippies. 1960, he was living under one of the "L"s in the "Hollywood" sign. Natilie Cole was walking with her father Nat King Cole, through Hollywood, they met Eden on the street. Natilie said she thought they had just met Jesus !" Old-Man Parker

“He is an authoritative pianist with a superb sense of melodic and harmonic invention. His kind of lyrical rummaging about, is brought off by Evans' remarkable capacity for working out large melodic structures that hang together as though they had been presketched on paper.” Richard B. Hadlock

"La chanson apparait en 1944 dans le film Belle of Yukon qui parle de la ruée vers l'or au canada sera créée dans le film par Dinah Shore. Pour autant la chanson ne deviendra un succès qu'à partir du moment où Bing Crosby l'enregistrera 1 an plus tard mais aussi Frank Sinatra en 1953" Laurent Valero

Stanley Kubrick demande à Alex North d’étudier Alexandre Nevxki de Prokoviev, et cela se ressent dans la musique qu’il a composé pour Spartacus (cuivres et percussions) remarquable pour son célèbre "Love Theme" et l'inquiétant à la fin du Main Title !

Chanson du film de Robert Mulligan "Inside Daisy Clover" avec Nathalie Wood et Christopher Plummer (1965)

“I was getting famous at the time and I felt I needed to brush up on various aspects of my craft. So I said I’m going to do it my way. I wanted to get myself together, on my own. I used to practice on the Williamsburg Bridge, because I was living on the Lower East Side at the time” Sonny Rollins 61

"Pour la première de la saison, une édition exceptionnelle, dans laquelle je vous propose de revenir sur les thèmes de l'année avec un choix de versions non diffusées parmi les plus belles !" Laurent Valero

I hear music when I look at you, A beautiful theme of every. Dream I ever knew. Down deep in my heart I hear it play. I feel it start, then melt away. I hear music when I touch your hand, A beautiful melody. From some enchanted land. Down deep in my heart, I hear it say, Is this the day ?

Birdland was a famous jazz club in New York City located at 1678 Broadway at 44th Street, where pianist George Shearing, composer of “Lullaby of Birdland” first played in 1949 with clarinetist Buddy De Franco. That year, owner Morris Levy renamed the club Birdland in honor of Charlie “Bird” Parker !

It seems like a dream, yet I know it happened ‎– A man, a maid, a kiss, and then goodbye ‎– Romance was the theme ‎– And we were the players ‎– I never think of this without a sigh – Lover, one lovely day – Love came, planning to stay – Green Dolphin Street supplied the setting...

"I can remember when i lived in my beloved New York. When autumn came i would see the trees in Central-Park changing color from red to gold to gone. After walking those cold blocks you would duck into a small cocktail lounge or café and listen to George Shearing play Autumn in New-York !" 555kappock

"One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop" Alyn Shipton, Gillespie's biographer