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PARIS...PARIS,

JOSEPHINE BAKER

COMPOSITEURES: AUGUSTIN LARA & GEORGE TABET

PAYS: AMERICAINE/FRANÇAISE

ALBUM: PARIS, PARIS

RECORD: PACIFIC RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1949

Freda Josephine McDonald, dite Joséphine Baker, est une chanteuse, danseuse, actrice, meneuse de revue et résistante française d’origine américaine, née le 3 juin 1906 à Saint-Louis(Missouri) et morte le 12 avril 1975 à Paris.

Vedette du music-hall et icône des Années folles, elle devient française en 1937 après son mariage avec Jean Lion, un courtier en sucre industriel. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle joue un rôle important dans la Résistance française. Elle utilise ensuite sa grande popularité au service de la lutte contre le racisme et pour l’émancipation des Noirs, en particulier en soutenant le mouvement américain des droits civiques. Le 28 août 1963, lorsque Martin Luther King prononce son discours I have a dream lors de la Marche sur Washington pour l'emploi et la liberté, elle se tient à ses côtés en uniforme de l'armée de l'air française et sera la seule femme à prendre la parole depuis le Lincoln Memorial.

En 1946, Joséphine Baker reçoit la Médaille de la Résistance française. Le 18 août 1961, dans le parc de son château en Dordogne, elle est décorée de la Légion d’honneur et de la croix de guerre. Enfin, 46 ans après sa mort le 30 novembre 2021, elle entre au Panthéon sur décision du président de la République Emmanuel Macron, devenant ainsi la sixième femme et la première femme noire à rejoindre le «temple» républicain.

Ne me demandez pas si j'aime la grâce

Ne me demandez pas si j'aime Paris

Autant demander à un oiseau dans l'espace

S'il aime le ciel ou s'il aime son nid

Autant demander au marin qui voyage

S'il peut vivre sans la mer et le beau temps

Autant demander à une fleur sauvage

Si l'on peut vraiment se passer de printemps

Paris, Paris, Paris

C'est sur la Terre un coin de paradis

Paris, Paris, Paris,

De mes amours c'est lui le favori

Mais oui, mais oui, pardi

Ce que j'en dis on vous l'a déjà dit

Et c'est Paris, qui fait la parisienne

Qu'importe, qu'elle vienne du nord ou bien du midi

Et c'est aussi le charme et l'élégance

Et l'âme de la France

Tout cela, mais c'est Paris

Madame c'est votre Louvre si joli

(Paris, Paris, Paris)

C'est votre beau bijou d'un goût exquis

Mais oui, mais oui, pardi

C'est aussi votre généreux mari

Mais oui, Paris, c'est votre boucle blonde

Qu'on sait le mieux du monde coiffer avec fantaisie

Mais oui, Paris, c'est votre beau sourire

C'est tout ce qu'on désire

Tout cela, mais c'est Paris

Et c'est aussi le charme et l'élégance

Et l'âme de la France

Tout cela, mais c'est Paris.

WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO

BILLIE HOLIDAY

SONGWRITER: HARRY WOODS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: JAZZ AT THE PHILARMONIC

LABEL: CLEF RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1954

Billie Holiday(born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills.

After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson produced the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. She was a successful concert performer throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Because of personal struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed reaction but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959, at age 44.

Holiday won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, though not in that genre; the website states that "Billie Holiday changed jazz forever". Several films about her life have been released, most recently The United States vs. Billie Holiday(2021)

Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic(MG C-169) is a live album by jazz singer Billie Holiday, originally recorded on February 12, 1945 and October 3, 1946 at the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and at Carnegie Hall on June 3, 1946.

Ooh, what a little

Moonlight can do

Ooh, what a little moonlight

Can do to you

You're in love

Your hearts fluttering

All day long

You only stutter

'Cause your poor tongue

Just will not utter

The words, I love you

Ooh, what a little

Moonlight can do

Wait a while

Till a little moonbeam

Comes peepin' through.

You'll get bored

You can't resist him

And all you'll say

When you have kissed him is

Ooh, what a little

Moonlight can do.

PATA PATA

MIRIAM MAKEBA

SONGWRITERS: JERRY RAGOVOY & MIRIAM MAKEBA

COUNTRY: SOUTH AFRICA

HOW: Live 1967

ALBUM: PATA PATA

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: WORLD MUSIC

YEAR: 1967

Zenzile Miriam Makeba(4 March 1932– 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.

Born in Johannesburg to Swazi and Xhosa parents, Makeba was forced to find employment as a child after the death of her father. She had a brief and allegedly abusive first marriage at the age of 17, gave birth to her only child in 1950, and survived breast cancer. Her vocal talent had been recognized when she was a child, and she began singing professionally in the 1950s, with the Cuban Brothers, the Manhattan Brothers, and an all-woman group, the Skylarks, performing a mixture of jazz, traditional African melodies, and Western popular music. In 1959, Makeba had a brief role in the anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa, which brought her international attention, and led to her performing in Venice, London, and New York City. In London, she met the American singer Harry Belafonte, who became a mentor and colleague. She moved to New York City, where she became immediately popular, and recorded her first solo album in 1960. Her attempt to return to South Africa that year for her mother's funeral was prevented by the country's government.

Makeba's career flourished in the United States, and she released several albums and songs, her most popular being "Pata Pata" (1967). Along with Belafonte she received a Grammy Award for her 1965 album An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. She testified against the South African government at the United Nations and became involved in the civil rights movement. She married Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Black Panther Party, in 1968. As a result, she lost support among white Americans. Her visa was revoked by the US government when she was traveling abroad, forcing her and Carmichael to relocate to Guinea. She continued to perform, mostly in African countries, including at several independence celebrations. She began to write and perform music more explicitly critical of apartheid; the 1977 song "Soweto Blues", written by her former husband Hugh Masekela, was about the Soweto uprising. After apartheid was dismantled in 1990, Makeba returned to South Africa. She continued recording and performing, including a 1991 album with Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, and appeared in the 1992 film Sarafina!. She was named a UN goodwill ambassador in 1999, and campaigned for humanitarian causes. She died of a heart attack during a 2008 concert in Italy.

Makeba was among the first African musicians to receive worldwide recognition. She brought African music to a Western audience, and popularized the world music and Afropop genres. She also made popular several songs critical of apartheid, and became a symbol of opposition to the system, particularly after her right to return was revoked. Upon her death, former South African President Nelson Mandela said that "her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us."