How to remember at the dawn of about sixty all the detours, stolen, which we borrowed(took)? But why do not to admit that in this beautiful country in which I lived everything begins with " upon Ounce has time ", or still
" It will be a Day ".. A world of legends, books(pounds), paintings(boards) and music,
To whom(which) Eroll Gardner, goes, although he manages to cross Peter Pan, Duke Ellington to exchange some words with Merlin the Wizard and Cab Calloway makes a big tap-dancing show with unchained(given rise to) Tex Avery.. Thirty years of restoration(catering), bars, brasseries(breweries), among which eighteen years crossed(spent) in the Small Newspaper Montparnasse … One thousand jobs(businesses), one thousand happiness as it is in the habit of saying … Two fingers of sound system(dubbing) a little of musical programming, some marriages and bat-mitzvah, a big work of State control, some unforgettable meetings Stéphane Grappelli, Michel Petrucciani,
Michel Legrand, Johnny Clegg, Nicole Croisille, Anna Prucnal, Eddy Mitchell …
But also the improbable and talented André Damon whose right hand and the medulla I tried so-so to be at once(at the same time). But to read you these reports(memoirs)
" The Small Newspaper " (Ed. François Bourin)
And then the creation of the " 24 hours(12 pm) of the Jazz ", " sick Children of the Hospital Necker " who gathered(combined) one day Charles Aznavour and the companions(journeymen) of the song "either" Radio Circus " or I found Zappy Max, Misters Grüss and Edelstein, Roger Bougeon, Annie Fratellini, the whole with the furious music of the Full orchestra of the Pinder Circus supervised by Carmino d' Angelo.
And then December 30th, 2003, the day of my 50 years, at the end of my first oneThird(Third party) of life … Jazzcartoon!! I thought well of having of the genius(engineering) by finding this name to baptize this small jazz club of the street Montmartre.. But I very fast remembered myself, that I had only been borrowing(taking) what had been the most beautiful comic strip dedicated to the jazz and to the blues create by the brilliant and too fast Missing person Philippe KOECHLIN, illustrated by the record(disk) of the Big Band ORNICAR …
Other place, new customers, new friends, beautiful musical discoveries.. Jazzcartoon a new page to be continued to write, also with those who stayed or whom I find little by little.. But if you pass in the district, do not hesitate to make the bend and to push our door … I promises you that the game(set,play) is worth the candle …