Charquet and Co. on YouTube

[Larry Kart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VqQszOC2SQ...ted&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhBr9XtrNsM...ted&search=

Info: Charquet & Co in Laren, Netherlands in 1978.The band was founded in 1967 as Reverend Charkey's Congregation, which was eventually shortened to Charkey & Co,, then finally Frenchified to its final form. Charquet was, of course cornetist Jean-Pierre Morel, who had an admiration for the work of New Orleans trumpeter Sharkey Bonanno.

During the more than 10 years of its existence the group developed a repertoire of 450 tunes, of which some 215 were arranged by Morel.

In the band here are Jean- Pierre on cornet, Jack Cadieu tb, Alain Marquet cl, Marc Bresdin bar sax, Bernard Thevin piano, Michel Bescont tenor, Lionel Benhamou bj, and Gerard Gervois tuba

In the late nineties Morel kind of regrouped and calls his new excellent band "Le Petit Jazz Band" Clarinettist Alain Marquet now plays in the internationally renowned Paris Washboard Band, which plays many jazz festivals in the USA.

Me again: I recommend all the Le Petit Jazz Band discs on Stomp Off. And dig the banjo solo here on "Everybody Stomp" by the late Lionel Benhamou. Also, one of the secrets of Charquet and Co. and Le Petit is that they're drummer-less.

Edited March 30, 2007 by Larry Kart