Les Allumés du Jazz published this double CD in 2006, directed by Jean-Jacques Birgé, for their 10th anniversary.
39 labels recorded 34 unissued tracks (130 minutes).

Each label produced a maximum of 4 minutes of sound and had the choice of 
putting them on either of the two CDs, respectively « LES ALLUMÉS » or « DU JAZZ ».
 If they wished, they could split their contribution between the two.

Each piece is preceded by a short preamble, letting listeners « reset their
counters » before the next track. These intervals were recorded either by the 
producers or the musicians themselves or during meetings and phone
 conversations with Jean-Jacques Birgé.

Each label was at liberty to create its own virtual front cover as if for a whole 
CD. Taking his cue from Michael Snow’s Cover to 
Cover, Birgé imagined a booklet with inverted back and front. It can be read
 in either direction just by turning it around. A special effort went into the 
presentation of this album hoping to make it something people will want to
 own : our way of saying we believe in the enduring value of the disk, and in
combating piracy by arousing desire, not by criminalizing consumers.

A special issue of the magazine Les Allumés du Jazz (#14) was devoted to the album,
 containing many documents, articles and pictures pertaining to the tracks on 
the two CDs or to the labels themselves.

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On "les allumés" :
Un Drame Musical lnstantané avec Baco, j-fy, Magic Malik Orchestra avec Sub-Z, Hélène Breschand - Franck Vigroux, Collectif Terra incognita, Les Ames Nées Zique, Ensemble Text'up, Didier Petit,
Grillo - Labarrière - Petit - Wodrascka, Sylvain Kassap,
Bertrand Auger - Francis Demange, Pablo Cueco - Mirtha Pozzi,
Trio Jean Morières, Rude Aquaplaning, Stéphane Rives,
Alima Hamel - Laurent Rochelle - Loïc Schild,
Pierre-Alain Goualch - Franck Agulhon

On "du jazz" :
Groupe Emil, Jef Lee Johnson - Hamid El Kasri, Vincent Courtois, Guillaume de Chassy - Daniel Yvinec, Trio Jean Morières,
Marthe Vassallo - Lydia Domancich, Le Trio d'arrosage,
René Bottlang - Rémi Charmasson - Eric Longsworth, Serge Adam,
Raymond Boni - Claude Tchamitchian, Donald Brown, Happy House, Bertrand Auger - Francis Demange, Murat Oztürk, Briegel Bros Band, Étienne Brunet

Direction, editing and interviews - Jean-Jacques Birgé
Graphic design - Daphné Postacioglu
Coordination - Valérie Crinière

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