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Endpoint: Philippe Adler



created on: 12/01/2026
by: bob (10469)
 
 

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Philippe Adler (born June 16, 1937 in Paris, France - died March 12, 2017 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France (aged 79)) was a music critic and television presenter.

From the sixties onwards, his signature can be found in the music magazines Jazz Hot , Jazz Magazine , Melody Maker , Billboard , Rock & Folk.

He spent most of his career at RTL, which he joined in 1962 before moving to L'Express in 1975, and returned to RTL in 1981.

Having transitioned to novel writing in the 1980s, he is the author of seven novels published by Éditions Balland: Bonjour la galère (1984 - 220,000 copies sold), C'est peut-être ça l'amour (1986), Les Amies de ma femme (1987 - 230,000 copies sold), Graine de tendresse (1989), Qu'est-ce qu'elles me trouvez? (1990), Du moment qu'elle me laisse le chat (1991), and La Migraine (1994). With Pierre de Chocqueuse, he co-authored Passeport pour le jazz in 1998, also published by Éditions Balland.

Her best-selling novel, Les Amies de ma femme, was adapted into a film in 1993 by Didier van Cauwelaert under the same title, starring Michel Leeb , Christine Boisson , and Dominique Lavanant. The first television broadcast (TF1) attracted nearly nine million viewers.

In 1987, shortly after accepting the editorship of Jazz Hot magazine, Philippe Adler became the creator and presenter of the program Jazz 6 on M6 (from 1987 to 2003).

After 2003, and until 2008, he programmed fewer concerts, spaced further apart throughout the year (a few concerts annually), always at the same very late hours (often well after midnight). He ceased broadcasting and commenting on jazz concerts on M6 permanently after that.June 2008.

He also wrote songs (Papa Tango Charly for Mort Shuman, Destinée for and with Guy Marchand, Macao for the Grand Orchestre du Splendid and L'Emmerdeuse for Régine ).

In cinema, he was seen acting opposite Guy Marchand and Daniel Auteuil in Les Sous-doués en vacances (1982) by Claude Zidi and, on television, in Sacré Lucien alongside Jacques Villeret.

His signature can be found in the gastronomic magazine 3 Étoiles where he profiles the greatest chefs in France.

A jazz specialist, he has been presenting Jean-Philippe Vidal 's Jazz Nights at the Cité des Congrès in Nantes for twelve years.

In January 2012, contacted by Emmanuel Garbal, a playwright from Moselle, he returned to writing and completed the work with him inDecember 2013, a comedic theatrical adaptation of his best-selling novel, My Wife's Friends.

Married twice, he has two children: Christophe and Emmanuelle.
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Submitted by : bob (10469)
on : 12/01/2026