INTERVIEWS par JD Beauvallet nina simone piecing together a crazy quilt

piecing together a crazy quilt of truths

devouring it until only the music survived

it's a rich social history of Montreal after dark

This new edition finally brings the often overlooked women who shaped the genre into the spotlight and traces the recent developments that have led to an upswing of jazz in contemporary mainstream culture

INTERVIEWS par JD Beauvallet nina simone piecing together a crazy quilt"This time spent in the company of these musicians, listened to religiously by JD Beauvallet, allows us to access the essence of human nature, of the most fragile and complex of species, staging, in a confidence that one feels absolute, their relationship to vulnerability, to laziness, to the ferocity of adolescence, to the death of musician friends too soon ravaged by alcohol and drugs, their relationship to the press whose deleterious effect is a