RARITY # 60

FRANCO CERRI QUARTET
COLUMBIA SEMQ 153 (EP 45 rpm) – ITALY, 1960.

It’s a pleasure to relaunch the “Rarity” series of collectable 7” and 10” (45 and 33 rpm). 

It’s even a greater pleasure to restart the series with a contribution by Ernst who has been a key contributor to the Series and to the blog since the early days.

So what do we have here?  A session recorded on November 10, 1959 in Milan, Italy, by the Franco Cerri Quartet composed of .

• Franco Cerri, guitar
• Renato Sellani, piano
• Giorgio Azzolini, bass
• Gianni Cazzola, drums

Three standards and a composition by the leader.  No idea who is the Franco to whom the first track is dedicated.  I assume  /hope  it is not the Spanish dictator – he did not like jazz - nor is it Cerri,  I doubt Franco Cerri would dedicate a blues to himself. Photographer Franco  Scheichenbauer perhaps ?

TRACKS

A1. Blues For Franco (F.Cerri)                            3:13
A2. Stella By Starlight (V.Young)                         3:07
B1. Darn That Dream (Van Heusen/Delanoe)     3:05
B2. Just Friends (Klenner/Lewis)                        2:58

PAUL PIOT & SON ORCHESTRE

PAUL PIOT & SON ORCHESTRE

FRANCE, 1962, LP 305 V 035, série populaire, Ducretet-Thomson (MONO)

Hello everyone, it’s been a long time!  It took me longer than expected to be ready to rip and post again, but here I am with a first “new” post. 

If you’re into French Jazz or Jazzy “Varietes” orchestras from the 60s - think of Jacques Denjean, Jean-Claude Pelletier, Daniel Janin, Eddie Barclay, Eddie Vartan, Ivan Jullien, Claude Cagnasso … - this is for you. 

A fairly rare LP that I found recently in a box with cheap easy listening records of limited interest, and that, to the best of my knowledge, has never been posted on the web before and never made it to CD format.

The track list is a well-balanced mix of standards and originals with a French touch, composed and arranged by “Bill Ivory” (an alias for Paul Piot),

Paul Piot is better known as an arranger for many French singers and this album is – as far as I could find – his only “Jazz” album.  French Jazz aficionados will recognize several names in the personnel, well-known and respected jazz instrumentalists / soloists such as Guerin, Paquinet, Verstraete, the Hrasco brothers, Alf Masselier ….):

Trumpets:

·       Fred Gerard

·       Maurice Thomas

·       Roger Guerin

·       Vincent Casino (replaces Guerin in Self Service & Up to date)

·       Rene Leger

Trombones:

·       Andre Paquinet

·       Charles Verstraete

Saxophones:

·       Alto: Joe Hrasco & Rene Nicolas

·       Tenor: Pierre Gossez & Marcel Hrasco

·       Baryton: William Boucaya

Guitare:

·       Pol Peguillem

·       Rene Duchossoir (replaces Peguillem in I can’t get started & Too Close For comfort).

Piano

·       Very discreet and not listed: Paul Piot (I assume)

Double bass:

·       Alf Masselier

Drums:

·       Arthur Motta

·       Armand Molinetti (replaces Motta in Lovely & N’importe Quand).

Tracklist

A1            Just One Of Those Things                      1:50

A2            Self-Service *                                            2:25

A3            Bewitched                                                  2:50

A4            N'importe Quand *                                   2:10

A5            Too Close For Comfort                             2:20

A6            Suspense *                                                  2:45

A7            Out Of Now Here                                       2:10

A8            Lovely *                                                       2:50

B1            Up To Date *                                                2:50

B2            There'S A Small Hotel                                2:20

B3            Twentieth Century *                                   2:35

B4            I Can't Get Started                                     2:25

B5            September In The Rain                              2:00

B6            The Kart *                                                   1:45

B7            The Lady Is A Tramp                                 2:20

B8            Jennifer *                                                     2:15

(*) composed and arranged by Paul Piot (as Bill Ivory).

I hope you’ll enjoy it.  I have a few more French, Belgian and Dutch / pan-European big band albums that I plan to post shortly. As usual, comments are much appreciated.

N.B.  Track 13 was corrupted in initial folder. I re-post the individual track 13 for those who have already downloaded the whole folder and I replace the folder by a new one with all the tracks.

JUNK IN YOUR LIVING ROOM

GOLDEN JAM SESSION AT JUNK

JVC LP CD4B-5049E (4 channel stereo)– Japan 1973

Sleeve notes:

“JUNK” in Your Living Room

At JUNK on the Ginza in Tokyo, famous combos entertain jazz fans with programs stretching from old standard numbers to modern jazz.  Foreign jazz artists too drop in on swings through Japan for visits and off-the-cuff performance.  The club is always filled with Japan’s most fascinated and fascinating jazz fans.

JUNK is also the place where Japan’s leading jazz artists often gather to jam, and this LP is the result of a recording of one of those sessions using the breadth of CD-4 to capture the fans’ excitementas well as the players unbeatable performance.

The moment you put this record on, your living room will be filled with the sounds and excitement of jazz at JUNK.

Makoto Hasegawa

Producer

Musicians

Hidehiko Matsumoto : tenor sax

Eiji Kitamura : clarinet

Akio Mitsui : trumpet & vocals

Koichi Kawabe : trombone

Shuzo Kibo : guitar

Ryusei Matsuzaki : vibraphone

Yuzuru Sera : piano

Hachiro Kurita : bass

Isamu Harada : drums

Tracklist

A1       Love Is Here To Stay

A2       Rose Room

A3       Just A Gigolo

A4       Star Dust

B1        By The Time I Get To Phoenix

B2        I'll Remember April

B3        Stars Fell On Alabama

B4        Take The "A" Train

I did not separate the tracks because it is a jam session and there are spoken parts by the musicians between the songs.  In Japanese, of course!

You will get two files, one for each side.

Ripped in WAV from original japanese LP .