While preparing the events related to the centenary of the arrival of jazz in Europe in 1918 and particularly the hundredth anniversary of the first jazz concert, on February 12, 1918 in Nantes, Matthieu Jouan was looking for musicians to whom he could entrust certain specific projects. I had in mind to play the popular music of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Paul Lay immediately accepted the terms of this challenge and started looking for emblematic compositions that he could propose to the voice of Isabel Sörling and the walking of Simon Tailleu.