I’ve loved Musicals since I am a child. My father did not but he was a jazz fanatic. It took me time to convince him that the greatest standards of the Jazz music were originally written by a handful of musical composers. Jazz would have never been the greatest form of music of the 20th century without those wonderful catchy melodies written by Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, Kern and Berlin. They are for me the greatest songwriters of all time and I wanted the French audience to be more aware of their names and of their talents. So I designed this collection to appeal not only to the specialists but also to the wider audience possible, so that the glory of their names shines again.