Jazz Radio with a Live Paris Clock
Saint-Germain cellars and Django's ghost — Paris jazz with CET above the cellar stairs.
Paris fell for jazz early and never filed for divorce. The Hot Club invented European swing with two fingers of Django's left hand; after the war, Saint-Germain's stone cellars filled with bebop and existentialists, and American players found a city that treated them like poets.
The station keeps a cellar table: gypsy-jazz guitar trading with saloon piano, brushes on a snare older than the Republic, a chanson melody slipping in like cigarette smoke under the door. The Paris clock keeps Central European Time at the foot of the stairs.
For wine-adjacent evenings, novel-writing hours, and the permanent romance of music played below street level.
FAQ
What time is it in Paris right now?
Live Paris time (CET/CEST) runs on the clock above.
Who was Django Reinhardt?
The Belgian-Romani guitarist who built European jazz with a fire-damaged left hand — swing's greatest workaround.
Why cellars?
Post-war Saint-Germain's jazz lived in medieval stone basements — the reverb on this station is a tribute paid in acoustics.
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