Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise

Ray Ventura et ses Collégiens · 1935 · lyrics and music: Paul Misraki

Context

Recorded in Paris in May 1935 for Pathé, this humorous fox-trot by Paul Misraki, the Collégiens' staff arranger, sold more than 600,000 copies. It illustrates Ray Ventura's hybridization of jazz orchestration and French comic song, often read in hindsight as a metaphor for prewar blindness.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in France (interwar years). Among the origins and influences of Jazz in France: Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras, Swing, big bands.

Sources

• phonobase.org
• transatlantic-cultures.org
• EN: Ray Ventura (pianist)

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