20TH CENTURY FOXTROTS • 4

FRANCE AND BELGIUM

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GOTTLIEB WALLISCH

‘Paris, 1925. The cafés and bistros are full of foreigners, mostly Americans. Hemingway, Joyce, Pound, Cocteau, Aragon, Breton and Tzara write, discuss and create modernity. Chanel dictates fashion, Man Ray photographs everyone. What music do they hear in the streets? What rhythms accompany them in the evening when they enter the Boeuf sur le toit, where tout-Paris gathers? In the most fashionable club, where Jean Wiéner and Clément Doucet play back to back, and where Cocteau occasionally sits on the drums, only jazz is heard.  Dances from overseas are the latest rage and will remain so for more than a decade. This is the fourth volume in my Foxtrots series and I invite you to join me in discovering the musical fascination of "le tumulte noir" in France and Belgium.’ – Gottlieb Wallisch