Casimir

In this comic, four teenagers who think they’re orphans discover that their parents are actually time travelers and have disappeared in time to stay safe from a big bad guy called the Casimir (why Sable has to link a bad guy to a whole line of fantastic Polish kings is beyond me, but my Polish grandmother would like to have a word with him … except she’s dead). The Casimir wants the time travel machine the teens’ parents invented so he can conquer time and space. The teens have to track down several “mystical” weapons that the Casimir wants so he can’t implement his plan. So off they go!

François Thuillier was born in 1967 and belongs to the new generation of tuba players, renowned for their knowledge, inquiring minds and inventive style and known for playing a wide range of jazz and improvisational music with symphony orchestras.

"In 1962 the Atlantic label, within a four-day period, recorded four albums titled Jazz at Preservation Hall, Volumes 1-4 featuring six different groups of New Orleans jazz veterans. This four-CD Mosaic limited-edition box set from 1998 has all of the music from those sessions, plus two other related albums. Unfortunately, the opening disc starts out very weakly, with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band recorded in 1958. New Orleans marching bands are sometimes notorious for being out of tune, but this one, particularly due to leader John Casimir's consistently wretched E-flat clarinet playing, should not have even been recorded, much less reissued. The Eureka Brass Band, which closes the first disc, is better (almost by default), if a bit erratic. Among its members are trumpeters Percy Humphrey, Kid Sheik Colar and Peter Bocage, clarinetist Willie Humphrey, and the forceful tenor of Emmanuel Paul.