Coup de gueule!

Zero download, that's the score for the ACT Big Band album I reposted over two weeks ago.


What does it mean?
- blogging is certainly no threat to the music industry.
- blog visitors are less aventurous or curious than I thought they'd be
- all those who did not bother have missed a fantastic piece of music.


Nobody showed any interest in No Vibrato either.  
Only one person downloaded the re-post of Richard Raux 's superb (and not common) album.


Bande d'ignares!  as we say in french.

ELECTRIC STRINGS

DIDIER LEVALLET - SWING STRINGS SYSTEM
ORIGINAL SESSION (France, 1978)

Superb French Jazz album recorded in 1978 by an octet under the direction of bassplayer Didier Levallet.


Players:
Didier Lockwood - violons, 

Jean-Yves Rigaud - violons, 

Jean-Charles Capon - violoncelle, 

Denis Van Hecke - violoncelle, 

Christian Escoudé - guitares, 

Siegfried Kessler - claviers, 

Bernard Lubat - batterie, 

Didier Levallet - contrebasse, arrangements, direction.

 Tracks:

- Paysages intimes, suite (Didier Levallet)

- a) Journal (solistes : D. Lockwood, Ch. Escoudé, S. Kessler)

 - b) Siegfried (soliste : S. Kessler)

 - c) Coup d’œil en arrière

- d) A suivre (solistes : Ch. Escoudé, S. Kessler)

 • Sing me softly of the blues (Carla Bley) (solistes : D. Levallet, J.-Ch. Capon, D. Lockwood, Ch. Escoudé)

 • Triade (D. Levallet) (solistes : J.-Y. Rigaud, D. Van Hecke, Ch. Escoudé)

• Flos Florum (D. Levallet) (solistes : Ch. Escoudé, J.-Ch. Capon).

RE-POST (LP rip ) - update 21 March 2012

I'm in the process of re-posting some rare OOP LP.

For the links, check in the comments of the original post.

Please be patient, re-uploading these albums takes time.  

1 André Condouant:  Brother Meeting (France)

2. Moe Koffman : Live @Expo 67 (Montreal)

3. Bert Dahlander - Jazz with a Swedish Accent

4. Steve Houben + strings (Belgium)

5. Basso-Valdambrini  Octet - New Sound from Italy

6. ACT BIG BAND (Belgium)

7.  Fountainhead (Florida, USA)
I was listening to this album while reposting.  It's pretty good, I recommend it if you're into  adventurous early seventies jazz rock big bands. No vocals, all instrumentals.  Great players.  Think Don Ellis, Maynard Ferguson and a few others.    (rip thanks to Leonard @Redtelephone66).

8. Charlie Mariano - Cascade
The positive thing about re-posting is that it gives me an opportunity to re-listen to my older posts, and this one was especially good!

9.  Charlie Mariano - October

10. OM - Kirikuki (Switzerland)

11. CHARLIE MARIANO - CRYSTAL BELLS

RE-POST (UPDATE)

So far I have re-posted the following CD,  You'll find a link in the comments of each post.

- Richard Raux - The Interval
- Ronald Muldrow - Yesterdays
- Bent Jaedig Trio - Sizzlin'

- Nueva Manteca - Bluesongo

- Fra Fra Sound: Kalinha's Serenade

- No Vibrato
More to come upon request.

RARITY #13: INNOVATION EN JAZZ 2

"Innovation en jazz N°2" 

Jacques Pelzer Modern Jazz  6tet

(Belgium, 1955)

Label : Innovations (B)   Serial number : ILP2

 This rare 10” was released in 1955 as part of the “Innovation en Jazz” series, a series sponsored by the department store “A l’Innovation”. 

Jacques Pelzer (1924-1994) was one of the most important figures in Belgian jazz history.

He was born in Liège and played the harmonica as a kid and switched to flute, alto & soprano saxophone later on.

In the late 1940s, he joined the legendary Bob Shots (lead by Bobby Jaspar), one of the very first (if not the first) groups in Europe to play be-bop. It’s at this time that Pelzer gets to know the music of Charlie Parker, who will remain one of his biggest influences.

In the 1950s, Pelzer became one of the leading jazzmen in Belgium, playing on the ‘Jazz For Moderns’ (Fiesta) and ‘Innovation en Jazz’ (Innovation) 10” records, as well as the ‘Jazz In Little Belgium’ 10” that was released for the ‘58 World Expo in Brussels.

 In the following decade, he plays with Chet Baker, one of his best friends, in the United States. It is through a connection of Chet Baker, that Jacques Pelzer records some sessions in Italy in the sixties: First an ep called ‘Amedeo Tommasi Trio presents Jacques Pelzer’ (1960 - Jazz In Italy vol. 10) and later an lp with a quartet under his own name: ‘Jacques Pelzer Quartet ft. Dino Piana (Jazz in Italy vol. 13 - reissued in 2009 by Rearward-Schema).

In the 1970s, he recorded two live lp’s: one with the legendary jazz fusion group ‘Open Sky Unit’ (with his cousin Steve Houben on sax and his daughter Micheline Pelzer on drums), and one with the Jacques & Micheline Pelzer Quartet. Both records were released on a tiny label called Duchesne and are now really rare collector’s items.

(source: http://www.afhalifax.ca/aftv/wp-content/uploads/AFH_LesToones/septembre2009.html)

TRACKS

Side A

1. Barbados

2. Gone with the wind

3. Embraceable you

4. Motion (*)

Side B

1. There'll never be another you (*)

2. lover man (*)

3. Stella by starlight (*)

4. Whose Blues (*)

Recording date, location & personnel:

May 18, 1955 - Leon Demol Studios, Brussel, Belgium

JACQUES PELZER MODERN JAZZ SEXTET

Pelzer Jacques (alto sax)

Sandy Herman (trumpet)

Thomas Rene (guitar)  (*)

Fanis Jean (piano)

Dubois Paul (bass)

Frankel Rudy (drums)

RE-UP - 26/08/2017

RE-POST: BABS ROBERT & The LOVE PLANET

BABS ROBERT & THE LOVE PLANET
(BELGIUM, 1970)

Often quoted or referred to by cratediggers and collectors but seldom seen and rarely heard. Here it is again, the Holy Grail of Belgium Jazz!

Please refer to the original post for info,

(this time the tracks are separated).

FACING WES

RONALD MULDROW – FACING WES
(USA, 1996)

 I have re-posted Ronald Muldrow’s Yesterdays at the request of a friend (new link in the comments of the original post).  By the same occasion I’m posting another Muldrow’s album: Facing Wes.  He is a much under-rated guitarist who left us too early (he was not even 58 when he died) and whose albums are almost all OOP. 

Here is what Scott Yanow at AMG has to say about this album:

Ronald Muldrow, an L.A.-based guitarist whose main influences is Wes Montgomery and Kenny Burrell, is a strong improviser in the tradition of 1960s straight-ahead jazz. For this outing, Muldrow is joined by some top New York musicians: pianist James Williams, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, bassist Peter Washington, drummer Yoron Israel and percussionist Kendrick Gueno. The guitarist performs six of his originals (including tributes to Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Oliver Nelson and Charles Mingus), two numbers from his former employer Eddie Harris (including a waltz version of "All Blues" called "Three Quarter Miles"), the swinger "Our Day Will Come," and "Little White Lies." The interplay between Muldrow, Nelson and Williams is quite impressive (Nelson virtually co-stars with Muldrow as a soloist and as a key sound in the ensembles); the music always moves, and the generally relaxed set is full of subtle surprises. A fine effort. (source: AMG).

Credits:

Ronald Muldrow                    leader / guitar

Steve Nelson                           vibraphone

James Williams                      piano

Peter Washington                  bass

Yoron Israel                          drums


Kendrick Gueno                    percussions

Tracks

1          On the Fritz                           Muldrow                              6:36

2          Facing Wes                            Muldrow                              4:50

3          Andrea                                   Muldrow                              7:20

4          Granite Green                       Muldrow                              8:03

5          Oliver's Moments                 Muldrow                            10:12

6          Our Day Will Come              Garson, Hilliard                   7:17

7          Minus Mingus                       Muldrow                              8:45

8          Cryin' Blues                           Harris                                  5:25

9          Three Quarter Miles             Harris                                  8:58

10        Little White Lies                    Donaldson                           5:45

STROLLIN’ THRU’ THE SOUKS

I often go for a stroll thru’ the souks over the week end. I like the atmosphere and always come back with fresh fruits, vegetables, spices, DVD of obscure foreign movies, old books … and sometimes old records.

Today was such a day. 

The harvest was not bad: Joe Sample “Fancy Dance”, an old favorite. I already have it on CD but it’s always nice to have the vinyl. 

 Stanley Turrentine “Use the Stairs” on Fantasy.  

 John Mayall’s Blues from Laurel Canyon, another old favorite (which brings me back to my teenager’s years as a British Blues nut.  

But the real find was a box-set containing 2 LP and one 45 rpm “Monsieur Erik Satie”.  

One LP is devoted to his piano works (Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes, Morceaux en Forme de Poire,  etc). The other LP contains orchestral pieces (Parade, Socrate, En Habit de Cheval) and the 45 rpm contains aphorisms and various texts written by Satie, read by Pierre Bertin.  A beautiful collectable artifact.

  

RARITY SERIES RE-POST

Since all the Multiupload links are dead, I'll start re-posting here the rarest posts (Rarity Series). It will probably take a few days.


REPOSTED


Rarity #1 : Brussels Art Quartet  (here)   (Belgium)
Rarity #2 : Free Form Sextet  (here)  (Belgium)
Rarity #3 : Zoot Meets Hans (here) (Austria/ US) 
Rarity #4:  Shake Keane - In my condition (here) (UK, West Indies)
Rarity # 5: Alex Scorier (here) (Belgium)
Rarity # 6: Carl-Henrik Norin (here) (Sweden)
Rarity # 7: Helmut Brandt Combo (here) (Germany)
Rarity # 8: Vic Ash plus Four (here) (UK)
Rarity # 9: Das Michael Naura Quintett (here) (Germany)
Rarity # 10:  Jacques Denjean et son Grand Orchestre de Jazz (here) (France)
Rarity # 11: Fats Sadi Combo (here) (Belgium)
Rarity # 12: Jazz in Little Belgium (here) (Belgium)


Refer to the entries in the blog for information on the musicians and details of sessions. 
I'll re-post the LP and CD rips on demand.

MULTIUPLOAD is dead & gone!

It seems that MULTIUPLOAD is gone for good and that means that most of my links are dead!  I  am willing to repost some if there is a demand. I shall probably use MEDIAFIRE or UPLOAD MIRRORS. Any sugggestion is welcome.