[king ubu]

Another one of these threads...

I love that series, picked up about half of them. Can only post the list of them when at home (tomorrow), but why not start a discussion of some favorites?

Here are some of my favorites:

http://cdn-images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000501C7.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
A very fine album by one of the best tenor saxophone players from europe. Milt Jackson's on piano, Kenny Clarke on drums. Highly recommended!

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YWF1.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
And another one by a highly regarded european tenor man. With Sacha Distel on guitar.

http://cdn-images.amazon.com/images/P/B000051TKS.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
This one was quite a surprise for me, never heard Eddy Louiss before. A fine disc!

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00005UCL9.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Another good'un (with Burton, Swallow, Haynes)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YWGL.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
This one was a discovery, too! One hell of a fine disc!

Other favorites of mine include the three Jazz & Cinéma volumes, the Chet Baker "Broken Wing" album (thanks, brownie :tup ), the Lucky Thompsons and the Hodeir/Jazz Group de Paris stuff, the Djangos and the two Donald Byrd volumes.

ubu

[bertrand]

Who's on the Michelot CD? This sounds tempting. What tunes do they do?

Thanks in advance,

Bertrand.

[EKE BBB]

I love this collection too, with those wonderful photographs!

I have about 15 of them and have planned to buy another bunch as soon as possible!

Jaspar, René Thomas, Blakey, Byas, Hines, Henri Renaud.... are some of my favorites!

[EKE BBB]

Pierre Michelot "Round about a bass"

Songs:

Cherokee
Gavotte
Akkilino
Elephant green
Sous les ponts de Paris
Chet
Bye bye blackbird
Sweet feeling
Klook´s shadow

Collective personel (I don´t have the CD here to give you details on sessions):

ts: George Grenu
bs: Pierre Gossez, Armand Migiani
as: Michel Portal
tp: Fred Gérard
tb: Charles Verstraete, Raymond Katarzynski, Benny Vasseur
fl: Raymond Guiot
b: Pierre Michelot
d: Christian Garros
p: Maurice Vander

[king ubu]

Thanks for giving the Michelot details. Grenu is also on soprano (or is it Migiani?) - and his playing is breath-taking! There are some tracks with a quintet line up, and the others feature the whole band.
Very very good arrangements and compositions (by Michelot himself), too!
If you like small big bands, no hot blowing, but neither too cool stuff, you'd love this disc, bertrand!

ubu

[Claude]

One particular title from the series is Chet Baker "Broken wing", one of his better albums from the late 70's. It had to be withdrawn for legal reasons, which is a bit strange considering the many Chet bootlegs that are on the market and the fact that Chet Baker rarely got royalties for the albums he made in his last years and only got paid for the recording.

If "Broken wing" is not reissued in a different form it may become a collector's item. Most online stores already list is as being unavailable.

Quote

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Jazz in Paris--Broken Wing CD presents a 1978 quartet recording by the trumpeter Chet Baker and adds two lengthy alternative takes to the LP from which it's derived. The Paris rhythm section--Phil Markowitz on piano, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clarke on bass and Jeff Brillinger on drums--provide ideal support with some particularly impressive bass solos. Chet's wistful singing is heard on "Oh, You Crazy Moon" but otherwise his poignant trumpet, lyrical and beautifully controlled, is predominant. The spirit of Miles Davis hovers at Chet's shoulder, but he has his own tone and phrasing, less dramatic but subtly insinuating. "Blue Gilles", a Baker original, is a very slow, mournful lament dedicated to Gilles Gautherin, the producer of this session. Wayne Shorter's "Black Eyes", which comes in two versions, has a medium-tempo bossa nova beat, but otherwise it's the slower tempos, at which Baker excelled, that determine the reflective ambience of this late December Franco-American encounter. --Graham Colombé

Amazon.co.uk link

This post has been edited by Claude: 29 September 2003 - 04:18 AM

[king ubu]

Claude, on Sep 29 2003, 11:12 AM, said:

One particular title from the series is Chet Baker "Broken wing", one of his better albums from the late 70's. It had to be withdrawn for legal reasons, which is a bit strange considering the many Chet bootlegs that are on the market and the fact that Chet Baker rarely got royalties for the albums he made in his last years and only got paid for the recording.

If "Broken wing" is not reissued in a different form it may become a collector's item. Most online stores already list is as being unavailable.

Yes, this is a very fine album indeed! Brownie pointed me to it, I got it from amazon.de some months ago - maybe they still have it?

ubu

[Claude]

Only if they have it in stock. The Amazon.co.uk link I posted above lists it as being available, but with a processing time of 12-14 days. This means they need to order it from the manufacturer, but will most likely not succeed with this one. That's often the case with OOP discs listed on Amazon.

[brownie]

king ubu, on Sep 29 2003, 04:06 AM, said:

Thanks for giving the Michelot details. Grenu is also on soprano (or is it Migiani?) - and his playing is breath-taking! There are some tracks with a quintet line up, and the others feature the whole band.

If I remember well, Georges Grenu is the soprano saxophone player. He was very efficient with the instrument. Doubt that Migiani played soprano.
Nice record indeed.

About Chet Baker's 'Broken Wings', the Jazz in Paris reissue which had to be withdrawn is indeed becoming a very rare item indeed. Haven't seen a copy in months now.

[king ubu]

So it is Grenu, alright! Had some doubts just before I wanted to post and added the bracklets. Sometimes one should trust to ones memory...

ubu

[Man with the Golden Arm]

I have several of these as well. The Wilen and Jaspar from ubu's above are tops for me. Fine stuff and extremely cheap when they first came around at $7.99.

I enjoy the 'cinema' series as well and am wondering if anyone has thoughts on the last volume #4?

[EKE BBB]

EKE BBB, on Sep 29 2003, 10:57 AM, said:

I have about 15 of them and have planned to buy another bunch as soon as possible!

So soon!

I´ve just found some CDs for 5,5 € at a local store and haven´t been able to resist it:

-Lester Young: Le dernier message de LY
-Stéphane Grappelli & Stuff Smith: Stuff and Steff
-Chet Baker: Broken wing :P :w :D

This post has been edited by EKE BBB: 29 September 2003 - 08:43 AM

[connoisseur series500]

I've only got the Donald Byrd session and the music is terrific. The recording, however, is not the greatest. Can anybody comment on the general recording quality of the others in the series? Thanks.

[jazzbo]

In general the music is very well recorded for the time and circumstances, and the remastering is pretty darned fine.

I have an awful lot of these. . . almost all the first 75 and some of the subsequent ones. I'm BROKE!

I am quite happy to have discovered a lot of great music from French and other European musicians. AND the Americans in Europe aspect as well. I've had some of these titles before, but the sound is better here. Great series!

Highlights for me recently are the Hodier, Clarke and Pfeiffer sessions.

[Claude]

I agree on the sound of the Donald Byrd albums, but it seems to be an exception. For example, the sound (stereo) of Art Blakey's "Paris Jam session" with Bud Powell is amazing for a 1959 live recording.

This post has been edited by Claude: 29 September 2003 - 09:24 AM

[connoisseur series500]

Thanks Claude.

I have seen that Blakey around somewhere. I'll pick it up when I run into it.

[Late]

Man with Arm,

Volume 4 of the Jazz et Cinema series is a nice one. While I think Volume 3 is my favorite, 4 offers up some interesting tracks. Here's a quick break-down:

• 2 tracks by Jean Wetzel, a noirish and "jazzy" sounding harmonica player.
• 4 tracks by an Alain Goraguer (on piano) group, sounding very MJQ-ish.
• 5 tracks by Michel de Villers (saxophones), sounding noirish again.
• 4 tracks by Gonzalo Fernandez, sounding a lot like Tito Puente's Dance Mania.
• 1 track by Martial Solal from The Trial
• 2 alternates by Jean Wetzel

For those who liked this brief series, I'd strongly recommend Martial Solal's collection of tracks for cinema, titled after the film A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), and including all the music score for this particular movie. Here is a crappy scan of the cover:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000069LE7.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Great playing all around on this disc.

[Late]

And this series in general ... ... I would not hesitate a second to pick up:

• Lucky Thompson: Modern Jazz Group — brilliant Lucky here.
• Don Byas: En ce temps-là
• Don Byas: Laura
(I like Byas's European work from this period a lot more than his American sides)

Also fine are:

• Le Jazz Groupe de Paris: Joue André Hodeir
• Kenny Clarke: Plays André Hodeir

These albums go well together, as the tracks not only are all penned by Hodeir, but are performed by a number of the same players.

[Hank]

I have a few dozen from this series. There are so many to recommend, but for now I'll second the endorsement for Kenny Clarke: Plays André Hodeir. I'd also like to mention the discs released by guitarists Henri Crolla and Elek Bascik. I believe there are two titles from each of them. Also, if you like accordion, get the Guy Viseur.

This post has been edited by Hank: 29 September 2003 - 12:59 PM

[BruceH]

I only have a handful from this series: the Blakey, Sonny Criss, and Lucky Thompson among them. Seems like an excellent series though. As usual, reading this board makes me want to go out and spend more on CD's than I should. :rolleyes:

[brownie]

The Jazz in Paris series is one of the best reissue achievements. The photos on the album covers heve been beautifully selected. The sound has been improved on most of the CDs I have heard. I had quite a number of the LP original issues of the series but I purchased several of the Jazz in Paris CDs because of the improved sound.
The ones I initally purchased were the Lucky Thompson, the Sonny Criss, the post-WWII Django Reinhardt, the Don Byas albums which appeared early in the series.
One CD I also got as soon as it came out was nr. 20 Harold Nicholas/June Richmond/Andy Bey which had two tracks from the very rare Andy Bey Fontana EP where Bey had Kenny Dorham, Barney Wilen, Paul Rovere and Kenny Clarke in the background group.
Also the Bernard Peiffer albums were on my Must Have list and were added to the collection. Nobody should miss out on Peiffer, a great forgotten pianist.
When one of the stores here had most of the CDs at just a little bit over 4 euros each. I got more from the series.
Would like to add one recommendation:
- vol. 54 'Clarinettes a Saint-Germain des Pres which feature Hubert Rostaing and Maurice Meunier. Meunier is another forgotten French musician that needs reappraisal. Rostaing and Meunier played clarinet with Django Reinhardt.
Meunier also appears in the lineup for the Lionel Hampton and his French New Sounds CDs (vol. 44 and 45).

This post has been edited by brownie: 30 September 2003 - 04:36 AM

[king ubu]

Late, on Sep 29 2003, 07:44 PM, said:

And this series in general ... ... I would not hesitate a second to pick up:

• Lucky Thompson: Modern Jazz Group — brilliant Lucky here.
• Don Byas: En ce temps-là
• Don Byas: Laura
(I like Byas's European work from this period a lot more than his American sides)

Also fine are:

• Le Jazz Groupe de Paris: Joue André Hodeir
• Kenny Clarke: Plays André Hodeir

These albums go well together, as the tracks not only are all penned by Hodeir, but are performed by a number of the same players.

Yes, these are all very good albums! I listed the Thompson already.
The two Byas discs are great, indeed!

And all the Hodeir-related stuff is at least very interesting!
Don't forget the Hodeir led "Jazz et jazz" album. There is some great music on that one, too!
And there was a Hodeir disc in the "Original Vogue Masters" series. Maybe still around on amazon France.

ubu

[Hank]

brownie, on Sep 30 2003, 02:21 AM, said:

Quote

Would like to add one recommendation:
- vol. 54 'Clarinettes a Saint-Germain des Pres which feature Hubert Rostaing and Maurice Meunier. Meunier is another forgotten French musician that needs reappraisal. Rostaing and Meunier played clarinet with Django Reinhardt.
Meunier also appears in the lineup for the Lionel Hampton and his French New Sounds CDs (vol. 44 and 45).

Yes, this one's great!

[king ubu]

Here we go:


01 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 1
02 Louis Armstrong the best live concert vol. 2
03 Miles Davis ascenseur pour l’echafaud
04 Donald Byrd byrd in paris (live)
05 Donald Byrd parisian thoroughfare (live)
06 Holland/Clayton/Singleton club Session
07 Bill Coleman from boogie to funk
08 Chet Baker broken wing
09 Dizzy Gillespie the giant
10 Slide Hampton exodus
11 Django Reinhard django et compagnie
12 Django Reinhard swing from paris
13 Django Reinhard swing 39
14 Mary Lou Williams I made love you paris
15 Elek Bacsik guitar conceptions
16 René Thomas the real cat
17 Toots Thielemans blues pour flirter
18 Buddy Banks jazz de chambre
Bobby Jaspar quartet barclay
19 Henri Salvador pardon my english – plays the blues
20 Various Chanteurs/Chanteuses
21 Don Byas laura
22 Sidney Bechet/Claude Luter self-titled
23 Sonny Criss mr. Blues pour flirter
24 Guy Lafitte blue and sentimental
25 Henri Renaud New sound at “the boeuf sur le toit” (live)
Zoot Sims quintet barclay
26 Barney Wilen jazz sur seine
27 Bobby Jaspar modern jazz au club st.-germain
28 Lucky Thompson modern jazz group
29 Pierre Michelot round about a bass
30 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 1
31 Oscar Peterson featuring Stéphane Grappelli Volume 2
32 Michel Legrand paris jazz piano
33 Claude Bolling plays the original piano greats
34 Rhoda Scott / Kenny Clarke self titled
35 Eddie Louiss bohemia after dark
36 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon aux trios mailletz
37 Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson paris blues live
38 Earl Hines paris one night stand
39 Kenny Clarke plays andré hodéir
40 Art Blakey paris jam session live
41 Eddie Louiss/Yvan Julien porgy & bess
42 Stéphane Grappelli improvisations
43 Jean-Luc Ponty jazz long playing
44 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 1 live
45 Lionel Hampton and his french new sound vol. 2 live
46 Lionel Hampton ring dem vibes
47 Various classic jazz à saint-germain-des-prés
48 Various modern jazz à saint-germain-des-prés
49 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 1 (Barney Wilen, Alain Goraguer)
50 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 2 (Art Blakey, Jazz at the Philharmonic, George Arvanitas)
51 Louis Armstrong and friends
52 Dizzy Gillespie cognac blues
53 Chet Baker quartet plays standards
54 Various clarinettes à saint-germain-des-prés
55 Various saxophones à saint-germain-des-prés
56 Stéphane Grappelli plays cole porter
57 René Thomas meeting mister Thomas
58 Django Reinhardt swing 48
59 Django Reinhardt django’s blues
60 Henri Crolla notre ami django
61 Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright piano aux champs-elysées
62 Lou Bennett pentecostal feeling
63 Rhoda Scott live at the olympia
64 Willie « The Lion » Smith music on my mind
65 Bernard Pfeiffer la vie en rose
66 Raymond Fol les 4 saisons
67 René Urtréger joue bud powell
68 Lionel Hampton mai 1956
69 Art Blakey 1958 paris olympia (live)
70 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joue André Hodeir
71 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 3 (Goraguer/Jazz Groupe de Paris/Humair Soultette)
72 Don Byas ree-boppers
Don Byas/Tyree Glenn orchestra
Howard McGhee sextet
James Moody quintet
73 Lucky Thompson with Dave Pochonet all stars
74 Alain Goraguer go-go-goraguer
75 Earl Hines in paris
76 Various danse à saint-germain-des-prés
77 Lester Young Le dernier message
78 Don Byas en ce temps-là
79 Stan Getz quartet in paris (live)
80 Henri Criolla begin the beguine
81 Elek Bacsik nuages
82 Stéphane Grappelli/Stuff Smith stuff and steff
83 Sarah Vaughan & violins
84 Dizzy Gillespie & his operatic strings orchestra
85 Bobby Jaspar jeux de quartes
86 Gerard Badini the swing machine
87 Stéphane Grappelli django
88 Gus Viseur de clinchy à broadway
89 Henri Crolla quand refleuriront les lilas blancs?
90 Django Reinhard nuit de saint-germain-des-prés
91 Django Reinhard nuages
92 Jack Diéval jazz au champs-elysées
93 Bernard Pfeiffer plays standards
94 Blossom Dearie the pianist
Les Blue Stars
95 Sammy Price/Price & Doc Cheatham play gershwin
96 Max Roach parisian sketches
97 André Hodeir jazz et jazz
98 Various jazz & cinéma vol. 4
99 Various harlem piano in montmartre
100 Various jazz sous l’occupation
101 Joe Newman/Cootie Williams jazz at midnight
102 Django Reinhardt place de brouckère
103 Buck Clayton and Friends (with Hal Singer)
104 Kid Ory at the Théatre des Champs-Elysées
105 Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
106 Guy Lafitte Blues...
107 Stan Getz/Michel Legrand 'Communications '72
108 Sammy Price Good Paree
109 George Wein Midnight Concert at the Olympia
110 Raymond Fol Echoes of Harlem
111 Maurice Vander Piano Jazz
112 Jazz et Cinéma Volume 5, (Henri Crolla, Hubert Rostang, André Hodeir)



"Hors-série" (2CD sets):

01 Sacha Distel Jazz Guitarist
02 Bill Coleman The Complete Philips Recordings
03 Jean-Claude Fohrenbach Fohrenbach French Sound

[edited to add #102 / edited to add hors série #2 and #3 / edited to add 103-112]

This post has been edited by king ubu: 08 March 2007 - 07:27 AM

[EKE BBB]

Ja,ja,ja.... another Jazz in Paris binge: 11 CD, 6€ each, at a local store!

-Louis Armstrong and friends
-Kenny Clarke´s sextet plays André Hodeir
-Henri Crolla: Quand refleuriront les lilas blancs?
-René Urtreger joue Bud Powell
-Clarinettes à Saint-Germain des Prés
-René Thomas: Meeting mister Thomas
-Joe Newman/Cootie Williams: Jazz at midnight
-Peanuts Holland/Buck Clayton/Charlie Singleton: Club session
-Sonny Criss: Mr. Blues pour flirter
-Harlem piano in Montmartre (Garland Wilson/Herman Chittison)
-Donald Byrd Quintet: Parisian thoroughfare

[king ubu]

Have fun with these!
Some good ones, you have picked up!
Don't forget to add the other Donald Byrd disc to your list. They both come from the same concert - and I love them! Walter Davis and Bobby Jaspar are great musicians, whose fame could be a little wider spread in my opinion.
The Clarke, Criss and Thomas are favorites of mine. There's a second one by Thomas, and as a companion to the Criss, look at Saxophones at Saint-Germain des Pres. That one has tracks by Criss, Hubert Fol and Michel de Villers - the Fol tracks are sublime!

ubu

[EKE BBB]

king ubu, on Oct 28 2003, 04:13 PM, said:

Have fun with these!
Some good ones, you have picked up!
Don't forget to add the other Donald Byrd disc to your list. They both come from the same concert - and I love them! Walter Davis and Bobby Jaspar are great musicians, whose fame could be a little wider spread in my opinion.
The Clarke, Criss and Thomas are favorites of mine. There's a second one by Thomas, and as a companion to the Criss, look at Saxophones at Saint-Germain des Pres. That one has tracks by Criss, Hubert Fol and Michel de Villers - the Fol tracks are sublime!

ubu

Thanks for the recs, ubu!

Totally agree with Jaspar and Thomas: superb and highly underrated musicians.

I was shocked when I heard "The real cat" when it came out. Since then Thomas is in my list of favorite guitarrists!

I have "Jeux de quartes" and "Modern jazz au club st.-germain" by Jaspar and I enjoy them a lot! I also like his work with Chet Baker ("Somewhere over the rainbow" -Bluebird- is the one I´d pick!) and his playing on Wynton Kelly´s "Kelly blue".

PS: I DO KNOW some day I will own the 101 CDs!

[EKE BBB]

A bit off-topic, but does anybody know if this is easily available on CD (OJC - originally Jazzland)???

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f662/f66218zmoj4.jpg

[Stefan Wood]

Yes, it came out a couple of years ago. This is an excellent cd. It says "limited Edition," but they seem to stay available for a long time.

[Brad]

I've got about 17 of these and ones I really enjoy consistently are the Don Byas ones, especially Bebop, and Sonny Criss. The sound, at least to me, is excellent, and the price darn reasonable.

Amazon France ships reasonably quickly and has or has had these in stock (although shipping can be rather expensive).

That is a very handy list to have. Thank you Roi Ubu ;)