Certains L’Aiment Chaud, founded in 1983 by Kiki Desplat and Claude Jeantet, remains one of the few all-female 1920s-style jazz bands on the international scene today.

In 1991, the Académie du Jazz awarded Certains L’Aiment Chaud the Sidney Bechet Prize, which honors the best classical jazz musician or band of the year. With a nod to Billy Wilder’s film *Some Like It Hot*, proving that jazz was not just a man’s game and bringing a unique sensibility to it was a challenge the band took on from its inception, before it became a given.

Certains L’Aiment Chaud draws its repertoire from the 1920s, a period of intense artistic activity: blues, rags, and stomps blend with the songs of the era.

Kiki Desplat: cornet player and singer
Sylvette Claudet: clarinetist (B-flat clarinet and bass clarinet) and singer
Nathalie Renault: banjo player
Luce Robyn: sousaphone player
Catherine Girard: washboard player, singer