Why do we love jazz? Pascal Anquetil, an essential writer and tireless witness to the French music scene, answers this question with a collection of columns in which emotion guides thought. From Billie Holiday to Ella Fitzgerald, from Monk to Miles, from Django to Petrucciani, he celebrates those who shaped this music of fever, struggle, and beauty. His writing, both sensitive and precise, captures the moment: a voice, a breath, a flash of light on a club stage. These texts are as much exercises in admiration as they are declarations of love for jazz. An invitation to listen differently.
PATRICK FRÉMEAUX

Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Scream Jay Hawkins, Al Green, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli, Martial Solal, Trio HUM, Michel Petrucciani, Didier Lockwood Pascal Anquetil is a French journalist specializing in jazz, notably for Jazz Magazine. He also directed the Centre d'Information du Jazz, contributing to the dissemination and structuring of knowledge about this music and its professionalization. His work takes a critical and documentary approach to the history of jazz.

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