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| + artist ........... Henri Renaud Orchestra |
| + album ............ The Complete Legendary Saturne Picture Discs |
| + label ............ Paris Jazz Corner |
| + cat .............. PJC 2220008 |
| + year ............. 2001 |
| + genre ............ Jazz |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date ..... 10.02.2004 |
| + size ............. 26,6 MB |
| + link ............. http://www.parisjazzcorner.com |
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| 01.Milestone N░2 02:59 |
| 02.Godchild 02:55 |
| 03.Tenderly 02:52 |
| 04.So What Could Be New - 02:59 |
| 05.Blue Moon 03:07 |
| 06.If I Had You 02:20 |
| 07.Any Old Time 02:57 |
| 08.A New Date 03:09 |
| 09.Lady Be Bad 03:02 |
| 10.Too Marvelous For Words 02:43 |
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| (t!) total 29:03 min |
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| The Complete Legendary Saturne recordings |
| Henry Renaud : Paris Jazz Records |
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| Though France was a haven for beboppers like Kenny Clarke and |
| later provided a home for free jazzers like Sunny Murray, Anthony |
| Braxton and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the French contribution |
| to the jazz oeuvre has been either neglected or negligible (the |
| Hot Club aside), depending on your viewpoint. Though this re-issue |
| of pianist Henri Renaud's sides for the Saturne label (nothing to |
| do with Sun Ra, by the way) is unlikely to rewrite the history |
| books, it's a strong reminder that though jazz was the sound of |
| Black America, there was much valuable music being made in Europe. |
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| Recorded in 1951 for five rare as hen's teeth picture discs, this |
| group (here in various trio, quartet and sextet formations) did |
| feature two visiting Chicagoans, guitarist Jimmy Gourley and |
| tenorist Sandy Mosse and was originally put together for a |
| festival date. On a mixture of standards and originals, the sundry |
| lineups display a relaxed, propulsive swing (mainly down to the |
| legendary bassist Pierre Michelot) which provides springboards for |
| some fine solos. Mosse is very much from the Lester Young school; |
| his blurred tone and urbane, eloquent solos are enjoyable enough, |
| but the star here is Belgian tenorist Bobby Jaspar. Recorded |
| before his move to the US a few years later (where he played with |
| the likes of Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Kenny Burrell before |
| dying tragically at the age of 37), Jaspar shares Mosse's |
| admiration for Young, but filtered through the airy harmonic |
| interrogations favoured by Warne Marsh. His playing is a model of |
| poise and taste, with a luscious upper register tone that hits the |
| spot. |
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| Renaud swings hard (easy to see why he was popular with visiting |
| American jazzers in search of a rhythm section), while Gourley's |
| Charlie Christian inspired solos are enjoyably fluid. The band |
| were obviously enjoying themselves; Mosse and Jaspar's brief |
| exchanges are delightful, and on "Lady Be Bad" quotes from "Dixie" |
| are tossed all over the place with glee by Gourley and Renaud. The |
| original 1951 picture discs were appalingly bad quality, though |
| engineer Tony Baldwin has done a fantastic digital restoration job |
| in rendering this valuable, unpretentious session listenable; half |
| an hour of Gallic bop at its finest. |
| ------------------------------------> Peter Marsh @ BBC Jazz |
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| In 1951, the French pianist Henri Renaud was 26, and the Belgian |
| saxophone player Bobby Jaspar, 25, just like the american |
| guitarist Jimmy Gourley. Together they discovered the new jazz of |
| the time by listening to records of Charlie Parker 'With Strings', |
| Al Cohn's quartet with George Wallington, Herbie Stewart and Jimmy |
| Raney, and Stan Getz's quartet with Al Haig... A real shock to the |
| system! Henri Renaud got a sextet together, including Sandy Mosse |
| from the USA and pierre Michelot and Pierre Lemarchand from Paris. |
| In June 1951 they recorded ten sides for the Saturne label, |
| released as a magnificent serie of LPs know as 'picture discs'. |
| This was the first time French musicians tried their hand at |
| modern jazz, and with what talent, what originality! The result |
| was telling. These records quickly became a legend in themselves, |
| but were impossible to find on the market until now, when we are |
| reissuing them in their entirety. At a time when a whole section |
| of French jazz was looking over its soulder at the past, Henri |
| Renaud was living his music in the present, fifty years ago. |
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