If you haven’t heard of JAIN, chances are it’s because you live in America. Well, trust us—that’s ALL about to change. Already a burgeoning star in her native France, 24-year-old Parisian pop sing…
French Study Cheese Improves Wine Taste
A very French study has discovered that one of our favorite foods, cheese, make wine taste even better.
McCain hangs on as Clinton aims at winning Arizona – The Washington Post
“They can’t believe John McCain didn’t stand up for himself when Trump insulted him, and they really believe if he can’t stand up for himself, he’s not going to stand up for voters in Arizona,” Kirkpatrick said after an event with several dozen retired federal workers in Tempe.
Source: McCain hangs on as Clinton aims at winning Arizona – The Washington Post
From Bill Clinton to Nelson Mandela, world leaders who cheated on their wives – The Economic Times
Though the former French President never admitted to it, rumours of him and his wife, model Carla Bruni both having affairs outside their marriage surfaced in the media in 2010. While details of Carla’s affair with musician Benjamin Biolay made headlines, Sarkozy’s involvement with his ecology minister Chantal Jouanno was hushed up soon.
Source: From Bill Clinton to Nelson Mandela, world leaders who cheated on their wives – The Economic Times
French Study Cheese Improves Wine Taste
A very French study has discovered that one of our favorite foods, cheese, make wine taste even better.
Uzès – I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
Gypsy jazz ala Django in Uzès
It was so cool to run into this gypsy jazz quartet performing at Place aux Herbes, in Uzès last July. In this video recorded from my iPhone, the Uzès guys (never caught their name so let’s call them The Uzèsniacs ) are masterfully strumming “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” in that beautiful jazz manouche style.
Apologies -my cell battery sadly dies in the middle of a great guitar solo. Mert!
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” is an American jazz standard attributed to the Tin Pan Alley team of Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics) in 1928. Fats Waller and Una Mae Carlisle recorded my favorite version of the song, and there are jazz scholars who maintain that it was actually Waller who wrote the song and sold it to McHugh and Fields for $500. Mert, encore!
The song “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love” is also famously featured in the classic screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The Uzèsniacs probably learned the song from this wonderful 1936 version from Django Reinhardt et le Quintette du Hot Club de France ( listen below)
