Édith Piaf

millions d’exemplaires depuis sa parution ! Prévert est aussi l’auteur de chansons – Les Feuilles mortes, Les enfants qui s’aiment… – interprétées par les plus grandes voix : Juliette Gréco, Catherine Sauvage, Germaine Montero, Cora Vaucaire, Édith Piaf, Les Frères Jacques, Mouloudji, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand, Tino Rossi… Celui qui en écrit la musique est un jeune Roumain venant de Budapest, que Prévert a découvert en 1934 : Joseph Kosma (1905-1969). Jacques Prévert est mort le 11 avril 1977

hall and then, since the 1920s, in the phonograph record, the wireless and the cinema. Aristide Bruant (1851– 1925), the first singer-songwriter to be recorded, had sung of life in the streets of Paris, while in the 1930s singers like Fréhel and Édith Piaf (1915–63) turned the lyrics of their songs into personal dramas of hope, joy and despair. Most songs were technically proficient but depended both on the quality of the performance and the personality of the performer. A distinction, however, is

artist of genius who follows his own way. Bechet was one of the first American jazz expatriates living in France during much of the 1920s and again in the 1950s, when he became a French jazz hero, ranking in popularity with Maurice Chevalier and Édith Piaf. 1’03’’ Part 2 Sidney Bechet’s recording career began with Clarence Williams’ Blue Five in 1923. In 1932 he recorded as a leader with The New Orleans Feet Warmers with trumpeter Tommy Ladnier. In 1939 his recording of “Summertime” became a hit,