Jazz Age Centenaire - Edition: 1920

Celebrate the American Hit Parade of 1920... one century later. Just imagine... 1920, post war, post Spanish flu... women finally win the right to vote, and now Prohibition? This decade was just beginning its insatiable taste for new tunes & Jazz!!! These selected songs helped create the spirit and narrative of a new era.

100 year old songs and sentiments, revisited... some still known, and others completely forgotten. ENJOY these selected tunes which helped feed the frenzy now known as THE JAZZ AGE!

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1/WHISPERING
Musique : John Schonberger | Paroles : Malvin Schonberger

2/AVALON
M & P : Al Jolson, Vincent Rose & Buddy DeSylva

3/WAITING FOR THE SUN TO COME OUT
M : George Gershwin |  P : Arthur Francis (Ira Gershwin)

4/AFTER YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT, YOU DON’T WANT IT 
M & P : Irving Berlin

5/I NEVER KNEW I COULD LOVE ANYBODY (LIKE I’M LOVING YOU)
M : Tom Pitts | P : Ray Egan & Roy K. Marsh

6/SWANEE
M : George Gershwin | P : Irving Caesar

7/LET THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY
M : Ernest R. Ball | P : J. Keirn Brennan

8/CRAZY BLUES
M & P : Perry Bradford

9/LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
M : Jerome Kern | P : B.G. DeSylva

10/WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME
M : Bill Munro | P : Andrew B. Sterling & Ted Lewis

11/ST. LOUIS BLUES
M & P : W. C. Handy

12/(I’LL BE WITH YOU IN) APPLE BLOSSOM TIME
M : Albert Von Tilzer |  P : Neville Fleeson

13/ALCOHOLIC BLUES
M : Albert Von Tilzer | P : Edward Laska

14/AIN’T WE GOT FUN
M : Richard A. Whiting | P : Raymond B. Eagan & Gus Kahn

Scott EMERSON - voice
Jérôme ETCHEBERRY - trumpet
Félix HUNOT - guitar/banjo
Raphaël DEVER - double bass