(AEP Publishing – 2020) Any book project related to Michael Jackson can spark my interest and by this statement I will have the opportunity to express all the nuances and subtleties of a subject that is dear to me. In my work as an author, I have tried to stay focused on the artist’s music […]
(Delatour France – 2020) Isabelle Petitjean is definitely very involved in the Jackson community and confirms it with her new book “Michael Jackson – Il était une voix”. After a first book published in 2015 and entitled “La culture pop au panthéon des Beaux-Arts, Dangerous, de Mark Ryden à Michael Jackson”, the author confirms the […]
(Harper Collins, 2019) At last, I am holding the object in my hands and at this moment, I want to take my time to appreciate it, slowly turning the pages. This new book by Christophe Boulmé must be fully appreciated, as it is the result of an important part of his experience, with its text […]
Queen : The Studio Experience, Montreux Montreux, August 2018 The city of Montreux is a place that I really like but up to then, I had only enjoyed it during its famous Jazz festival in July. The atmosphere would seem different when visiting the Swiss city in August, but this was the context […]
Dexter Wansel’s appearance at the New Morning venue in Paris was the last concert I attended before the Covid crisis. Apart from the stage performance, I enjoyed meeting with the musician and, of course, I hoped to keep in touch with him in order to evoke his collaboration on two albums with the Jacksons in […]
The rehearsals for This Is It will remain the last moments of the King of Pop performing on stage. I have rarely raised the subject, but my conversations with Morris Pleasure, a keyboardist and member of the band on that tour project, gave me the desire to approach it on my website. It was […]
Saturday February 8th 2020 I had never been to the New Morning before. However, it wasn’t for lack of having heard about this mythical Parisian venue. I particularly have in mind a live album by French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman, even though the numerous aftershows that Prince gave there also helped build the reputation of this […]
As a fan of Sylvester Stallone and his « Rocky » saga, I can’t help but just love the track « No Easy Way Out » that could be heard in the fourth movie of the saga. Featured in an unforgettable soundtrack, that song remains a timeless hit as well as a topic that doesn’t […]
(Porcara Musica – 2016) After nearly forty years of career, Toto’s discography is full of many gems and would deserve many written lines but that is not the central subject that motivates me to put my fingers on the keyboard. I am actually doing so with lucidity since I am well-aware that someone on this […]
The City of New Orleans is situated in the state of Louisiana along the Mississippi River. It is a very touristic and pleasant city that music lovers recognize as the birthplace of Jazz. That former French colony is a stronghold of African-American culture, as it is also the birthplace of artists like Louis Armstrong and […]