Why hello there, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast.

If it's your first time, welcome to the club.

This is a show all about Paris, all about France, hosted by me, Oliver G, and brought to you by the lovely Patreon members.

We're at patreon.com slash the Earful Tower, you're going to unlock a bunch of extra things like the transcript

for this very episode like my huge pdf guide to paris help you plan your next trip and live

videos and much more but we're not here to talk about that today we're here to talk about jazz

and the reason i am revisiting this topic

is because it's one of those questions. There are two questions I get rather often that kind of

just crop up every now and again. One is, can you do something about jazz? And the other is,

can you do something about how to visit Paris for children?

Which will get back to another point.

And the reason I always sort of put these off is because I feel that they're a bit almost divisive.

Like, I feel like you either like jazz or you don't, and you either have children or you don't.

But look, this week was a good one to tackle jazz. I figured because we

had some visitors in town who were really into it and I found myself going to some jazz clubs.

And one of them is particularly worth talking about because I was invited there by the guest

on today's show, Alex Freeman. He sent me a message. He said, Oliver, you've got to

come check this out. There's a cool thing going on. He was involved in organizing it. It's jazz meets chess.

At the same time, and yet not at the same time. I don't want you to imagine people playing jazz and chess

taking on each other, trying to check meet each other with a double bass and a saxophone.

No, no, it's a chess club in the San Jambres area where a lot of people are playing chess, but at the same time you can go and watch jazz.

It's a place called The Blitz Society.

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