I can imagine I'm not the only one here on this board who first listened to Rene Urtreger when he played with Miles on "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud". Many years ago I bought another CD of Rene Urtreger: It's called "Masters" and RU plays there with Niels Pedersen, Christian Escoude & Andre Ceccarelli. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any link on the net to this CD. A few days ago I added another CD of Mr. Urtreger to my collection: it is from Jazz in Paris series: "Joue Bud Powell". It was recorded on 1955. The young pianist (21 when recorded) plays 6 Powell's tunes plus 2 originals. This is beautiful session!!! Urtreger sounds great and I think he is a great bebop pianist. Any other Urtreger's recommendations??? Any idea if he is still active in jazz scene in France???


Joue Bud Powell

A very kind person on this board presented me this great 3CD set:



An great one! The Humair-Urtreger-Michelot set in three recordings, the first a live one from 1961 (?), the second late seventies (?) and the third a new one done for this release. Great booklet and all, a magnificient one!

ubu

Thanks Ubu. I'll definitely add it to my list.

Another great for Joue Bud Powell !!!

I don´t have any more discs with Urtreger as a leader, but you can find him as a sideman in a lot of Jazz in Paris discs, such as

-The real cat (René Thomas)
-Modern jazz au Club St. Germain (Bobby Jaspar)
-Clarinettes à Saint-Germain des Prés
-Kenny Clarke´s sextet plays André Hodeir
-Le dernier message de Lester Young
-Stuff and Steff (Stuff Smith and Stephane Grappelli)
...

Except for the Clarinettes.... I have all of these. All recommended, except maybe the Prez. I'd only recommend this one to people already familiar with earlier and later recordings of his. It's a pretty tough one. Not that I'd want to miss it, but then it can really be hard to listen to.

ubu

Bobby Jaspar sounds very interesting. I promise to check it.

Speaking of Distel and Jaspar and Urtreger, they are also featured on 8 tracks of the Sacha Distel Jazz Guitarist set (JiParis Hors Serie 01).

Catchng up on this Rene Urtreger thread! Just would like to add a recommendation for the latest Urgreter opus:
http://www.sketch-studio.com/sketch-jazz/08onirica.html

A magnificient solo album...

The 3-cd set with Michelot and Humair is available here for $17.97:

http://www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com/cgi-b...eth=Some&RPP=25

YES, I have ordered through Berkshire Records Outlet for years.

Adding to the chorus -- I order more stuff more regularly from Berkshire than I should. It's mostly a classical outfit; the best I know for cutouts -- stock is vast (I think almost 14,000 items), new stuff pours in regularly, prices are great, and the good fast search engine makes finding out whether they do have something you want a breeze. Only caveat is that it usually takes about three weeks for your order to arrive (don't call and complain until at least a month has passed, if it does -- they can get snarky if you do, and over the years everything I've ordered has arrived). I think their slowness vs. outfits like Amazon (not really comparable, I know) is because Berkshire operates from an actual warehouse and adjacent store in the eastern U.S., and the typical Berkshire customer (that would be me, I'd guess) usually orders a bunch of stuff from different labels. I imagine aging Dickensian counterculture types (rejects from the Ben and Jerry's plant?) walking down endless aisles with long lists in their hands. Fitting that image, perhaps -- within the boxes (when they do arrive), the CDs are tightly wrapped and then taped in several layers of old newspaper, and if the order is large, say 10 CDs, there is no regularity (or particular logic that I've been able to detect) in how many of your CDs will be wrapped and taped into each of the various sub-bundles within the box.

I've just bought this 3 CDs set last week. This is really a great one!!! The sessions were recorded on 1960, 1979 ans 1999. The booklet looks great but it is writen in French....

Thank you Flurin for this recommendation.

Bentsy, you are absolutely right! This is a magnifique set
But you should start working on your French...
Then you could read and enjoy that Rene Urtreger article that was in Le Monde newspaper on Bastille Day:
Rene Urtreger interview

Learning French is definitely on my *to do* list. I'm afraid I'll have the time for that only after I'll retire…

Bonne chance, then... as long as I do not have to learn hebrew now that I'm a retiree

Yes, that 3 CD set titled HUM is outstanding. Here are a few other good CDs (not mentioned) I like by Rene Urtreger as leader.

Rene Urtreger Trio - Move - Black & Blue
Rene Urtreger (solo) - Jazzman - Carlyne
Rene Urtreger - Serena - Carlyne

Caught Rene Urtreger live today when he played a date with his trio (Pierre Boussaguet on bass and Eric Dervieu on drums) at a place called Espace Clacquesin in Malakoff on the southern edge of Paris.
Bad luck and major commitments had made me miss his recent appearances.
Urtreger was in great shape and spirit and was obviously delighted at playing for a very appreciative full house.
He looks half his age (or almost) and his repertoire seems to be as large as Hank Jones'.
The trio started strong with 'Old Devil Moon' and went through Monk, J.J. Johnson, Urtreger tunes mingled with ballads.
I was amazed by the music from this trio and its vitality.

The place was also very interesting.
Clacquesin was a quite popular vermouth decades ago and still is being produced.
The Espace Clacquesin turned out to be a distillery. A music stage has been arranged inside the building and provides good view of the proceedings and excellent acoustics.

Urtreger will be playing next month at the Lionel Hampton Club inside the Paris Hotel Meridien Etoile with veteran vibraphone player Michel Hausser who I have not seen or heard in ages. I won't miss this.

Bentsy, I missed this back in July! Glad you got and enjoy the set!

brownie: you seem to have had a magnificient evening there! I wish I had been there! Rhoda Scott was recorded at the Hampton jazz club... any hope for Urtreger?

Any idea Brownie when that would be ? As I'm in PAris in November for few days again, so protenially there is some chance to to catch this show.

Cheers, Tjobbe

RENE URTREGER QUINTET INVITE MICHEL HAUSSER
Du Mardi 22 au samedi 26 Novembre
René Urtreger (piano) Michel Hausser (vibraphone) Hervé Meschinet (saxophone, flûte) François Biensan (trompette) Eric Dervieu (batterie) Yves Torchinski (contrebasse)
René Urtreger est un des piliers du Jazz hexagonal. Il a fait les beaux jours de St Germain-des-Prés et a été également le pianiste de Claude François. René a joué avec les plus grands de Miles Davis à Dizzy Gillespie sans oublier Lester Young ou Chet Baker. Les Victoires de la Musique viennent de le distinguer en lui remettant une Victoire d’Honneur du Jazz pour l’ensemble de sa carrière : Félicitations René. Son complice Michel Hausser, notre Milt Jackson national, directeur artistique du Festival de Munster, sera de la fête. Ces deux compères prendront plaisir à jouer ensemble et rendre hommage à Charlie Parker dont nous honorons la mémoire en 2005.

source

so I might need to shift my appointments for a week. Lets see.....

Cheers, Tjobbe

No idea. Talked briefly to Urtreger between sets but did not ask him about future recordings.
He is one of the pianists in this just released album and appears on a couple of tracks
Anne Ducros but I am no fan of this singer. She sings in english and always seems to be overdoing it.

Thanks but no thanks, I guess...

Am listening to "Rene Urtreger / En Direct D'Antibe" at the moment.

01 - Didi 's Bounce
02 - Solar
03 - Pannonica
04 - Recidive

02 and 04 are particular favorites.

Great stuff.

Ah, I see! So you meant the "Liberté surveillée" set!