mikeweil Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Thanks - two more for the shopping list ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 There's also a CD under Guy Lafitte's name which was published recently by the Hot Club de France. A live session with a small group that includes trumpet player Jean-Claude Naude. Recorded in 1982. Have not heard this one yet but will get a copy when I return to Paris later this month. It's available (cheap!) here: http://www.cdandlp.com/item/1/0-1505-11-1-...uy_Lafitte.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Is that Lafitte playing the Hawkesque tenor on Bridget Bardot's recording of "Everybody Loves My Baby" (the accompaniment is listed as Claude Bolling's orchestra)? A serious question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
couw Posted May 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 wasn't that Gerard Badini? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I don't know, I just have a copy of the cut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 I would concur with couw. Gerard Badini should be the tenor saxophonist on that Brigitte Bardot/Claude Bolling track. Badini is to Bolling what Gonsalves was to Duke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Thanks! I'm not at all familiar with Gerard Badini. Is he somebody "worthy of further review"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Dusty Groove lists three upcoming Lafitte CD reissues. All were to have been issued in "late May" but have been...hold onto your hats...delayed. Titles are: Blues in Summertime Jambo Sugar & Spice Could this be the new Barney Wilen? Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Thanks! I'm not at all familiar with Gerard Badini. Is he somebody "worthy of further review"? Always found Gerard Badini a bit of a lightweight tenor. Not in the same league as Guy Lafitte! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Although one brief solo on a Bardot side is not the evidence with which I'd care to use to come to a definitive conclusion , that sounds about right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Got hold of the Guy Lafitte 'Live Au HCF Paris - 2 Mai 1982' CD release from the Hot Club de France which turns out to be an excellent live concert. Lafitte really was in top form that night. His 'Body And Soul' is even better than on the 'Corps et Ame' album on Black and Blue (with Hank Jones, George Duvivier and JC Heard) recorded four years earlier. Lafitte hailed from Armagnac country and aged like good armagnac. Very good guitar playing by Marie-Ange Martin whom I had never heard better. And a couple of welcome appearances by trumpet player Jean-Claude Naude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belsha Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 I played piano with Guy Lafitte on numerous occasions in my early twenties. I lived in the south of France, and a pretty bad drummer organized gigs for Guy in the region. Guy was an absolutely astonishing human being, besides being a great player.For a a while, he stopped playing music and became a farmer in his home region, la Gascogne. He was also very active politically there, holding responsibilities for the french socialist party. He was an outgoing, dionysiac person, that at the same time was very aware of his failures and shortcomings, and those of the world in general. He was incredibly human.He spoke a haunting southwestern accent with rolling R's and a dark smoky voice- something quite near to his saxophone sound. At the time Guy died, I was out of the jazz scene, I learned about his death in the newspaper, and I hadn't seen him for a while. A couple of years ago, I met Pierre Boussaguet, who told me that they often talked with Guy about me, wondering what I had become. This saddened me even more, and I sort of felt ashamed for having disappeared like that. I very much miss him. He really was of a breed of jazz musicians that has completely died out- the attitude, the approach, the way of life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 He was also very active politically there, holding responsibilities for the french socialist party. A negative side to Lafitte. Not only was he politically active (no problem with that) but he was also very vocal in a French jazz musicians union that created problems for American musicians in France in the late sixties. At the time, I was trying to help Cecil Taylor get gigs in Paris. Cecil Taylor and his Unit (Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille) played for several days at a recently opened club 'Jazzland' on the Rue Saint-Severin. Then the French jazz musicians union got into action. The Jazzland management preferred to close the club after running into trouble with the union. Lafitte and vibraphone player Michel Hausser were the most active spokepersons in that union. They insisted on the club managers to hire French musicians! The Ornette Coleman trio (with David Izenson and Charles Moffett) and Johnny Griffin were among the headliners before CT. The Jazzland is a French restaurant nowadays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue lake Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 In May of 1999 Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp sent a professional jazz quartet to tour small towns and villages of Southern France. This was in part a goodwill gesture, and in part an advertising tour to open up these communities to the idea behind Blue Lake International Exchange program, where high school age musicians in symphony orchestras, symphonic bands, jazz big bands and choirs tour through these towns and stay in people’s homes. The idea caught on in France and the International program is doing very well despite the current political climate. The Blue Lake International Jazz Quartet in 1999 featured Ann Arbor bassist Paul Keller, who’s toured with Diana Krall, Cincinnati-based pianist Phil DeGregg, plus one of West Michigan’s finest drummers (next to Organissimo’s Randy Marsh!) and educators Tim Froncek as well as a Hank Mobley influenced tenor player named Tom Stansell. Lesley and I were invited along -- I recorded the concerts – and it was just incredible. In any case, one of the stops was Limoux. At about noon we went to the local d’ecole of music, a diamond shaped music room filled with Orf instruments, and including a large space off to the side. Shortly after everyone was there, someone starts passing little plates of potato chips and nuts, along with glasses of this incredible dry white sparkling wine. Nice. Noon. Well, the conversation kept on and so did this incredible wine, which we were all informed was the pride of the region, the Blanquette de Limoux, the oldest dry wine in the world. Pretty soon the congenial party of at least 15 people or so meandered over to a long table, and this cliché of a French looking cook, you know, big arms, round belly, dirty apron, comes waddling out of the kitchen with this vat of cassolette. The party was on! Everyone was eating, drinking, talking through translators. The musicians were at the other end of the table, and the Americans were being drilled about which French jazz musicians they knew. Being the troupe’s resident nerd, of course, the Americans turned to me for a save, and after a nervous hesitation, being put on the spot while the wine worked around my memory, I just blurted out “Guy Lafitte.” The place erupted! "Guy!!!" “He’s from here!” “He was my teacher!” “He was my mentor!” Oh! C’est bon! Just pulled it out of my ass. Was thinking about “Passin’ Time” and “To A Mornin’ Sunrise” on Swing, the sides with Lucky Thompson and Guy Lafitte. Lafitte had recently passed away, so knowing that he was remembered meant a lot to our hosts. It was a happy, bittersweet moment for them. But the concert that night was one of the best of the tour, especially when the head of the local big band, a tenor player named Guy Robert sat in with the quartet on “Tenor Madness,” “When Sunny Gets Blue” and “There Will Never Be Another You.” So, that’s my “real life” Guy Lafitte story. If you’ve never tried the Blanquette de Limoux, well, that might explain some of Lafitte’s sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 Very nice story, Blue Lake. I'll raise a glass of Blanquette de Limoux in memory of Guy Lafitte later today. It's a bit too early in the day right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 Every hour is an adequate hour to savor a good French wine! http://www.limoux-aoc.com/ (shouldn´t we start a WINE THREAD? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 (shouldn´t we start a WINE THREAD? ) I drink my own wine thread every day I'll join a wine thread forum. We winedrinkers have to stick together. Afraid we are surrounded by beer drinkers on this board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 Brownie, beer and wine both have their time and place (as does vodka). The key is to have a balanced diet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 The band played great, but I could barely keep my eyes open. I think the players went to their host families and got some sleep. Our host, a trombonist, had two little kids, a wonderful wife and loads of questions about jazz, so I never zonked out before the hit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaro Vega Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 Actually, some of those Black and Blues were in my mind, too, from having heard them in Chuck's basment. Maybe from "The Midnight Slows." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 French RCA is reissuing a number of rare French jazz albums in a Gold series which should be out any day. The series will include three Guy Lafitte RCA albums including 'Jambo' and 'Sugar and Spice'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted June 26, 2004 Report Share Posted June 26, 2004 Currently reading 'Comme Si C'etait le Printemps' (As It Was Spring', a book - in French - that was published last year by friends of Guy Lafitte that reunites various writings and notes by Lafitte. A 120-page autobiography by the saxophone player, the book was published by 'ArtMedia Editions'. Very nice volume with good illustrations and a discography. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKE BBB Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 Got hold of the Guy Lafitte 'Live Au HCF Paris - 2 Mai 1982' CD release from the Hot Club de France which turns out to be an excellent live concert. Lafitte really was in top form that night. His 'Body And Soul' is even better than on the 'Corps et Ame' album on Black and Blue (with Hank Jones, George Duvivier and JC Heard) recorded four years earlier. Lafitte hailed from Armagnac country and aged like good armagnac. Very good guitar playing by Marie-Ange Martin whom I had never heard better. And a couple of welcome appearances by trumpet player Jean-Claude Naude. What brownie said. Wonderful live date. 5 everlasting standards ("The way you look tonight", "There will never be another you", "I can´t get started", "Stompin´ at the Savoy" and "Body and soul") and one original ("Blues at the Cave"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmitry Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Got hold of the Guy Lafitte 'Live Au HCF Paris - 2 Mai 1982' CD release from the Hot Club de France which turns out to be an excellent live concert. Lafitte really was in top form that night. His 'Body And Soul' is even better than on the 'Corps et Ame' album on Black and Blue (with Hank Jones, George Duvivier and JC Heard) recorded four years earlier. Lafitte hailed from Armagnac country and aged like good armagnac. Very good guitar playing by Marie-Ange Martin whom I had never heard better. And a couple of welcome appearances by trumpet player Jean-Claude Naude. I also have this disc, courtesy of vous. Excellent date, and great playing by Lafitte, who appeared in top form. My other GL disc is "Live 93" , which appears to be a rare title. The band is different from the HCF gig, so is the material and the playing, which are in the more modern vernacular. There are two versions of So What and a Waltz For Debby. The HCF set has a more 'small club' quality to the music than the "Live 93". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Glad you are enjoying the Live au HCF disc. A good one! Will have to really look for that Live 93 CD. A rare one indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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