Integrale Vol. 9 “en Avril A Paris” (1952-1953)

“The first French singer-songwriter you could call genuinely inspired by jazz was this boy named Charles Trenet […] the new heartbeat, the extraordinary joie de vivre coming from the songs that this rumpled kid chucked out by the dozen, were born of the conjunction between a remarkable poetic gift and the vitality of jazz, assimilated fully by an exquisite sensibility.” Boris VIAN (En avant la Zizique)