Paris Jazz Corner

Don Menza

"HORN OF PLENTY"

1987 (réf. D11G 72931).

Philippe Petit

"Ecoute"

1979 (réf. PJCP-222014-).

After the 2003 Febuary release, the duo with Barney Willem, Paris Jazz Corner Production continues the adventure with Philippe Petit.
This album was originally released in 1979 on the Musica Label (Under the name : 'For all the life you are in my heart).
This session, never published in CD, is not a 'guitarist' record strictly speaking, in this context each one plays his part at the perfection: the opportunism of Aldo Romano, luminous skill of Dominique Lemerle, remarkable improvisations of Michel Graillier who always transcend the melody lines.
Philippe Petit, as for him, the ardour and freshness from his play, but also by his leader's talents : he insufflates, suggests, animates and preaches the respect, because the strong idea of a group is equality.

The title ' the solitudes' was added in bonus to this session. It's a solo by Philippe Petit dedicated to the memory of these missing friends.

Lenny Popkin

"New York Moment"

2005 (réf. 982 941 9-).

More than 25 years after its first record, Lenny Popkin settles in France and brings in its luggage this new trio album.

He delivers to us, with his two partners, a singular and timeless vision of the jazz. 9 titles, original compositions and standards adaptations, whose aerial interpretation is expressed on medium tempos evoking with wonder the Popkinian universe.

1. New York Moment
2. Mystery
3. You Don'T Know What Love Is
4. Origin
5. Entracte
6. Like A Dream
7. Conundrum
8. Body And Soul
9. Another Time

Lenny Popkin

"TIME SET"

2012 (réf. LR-103CD).

1- Fuga à 4 in C Major BWV 846
2- Gloria from the Missa Mi-Mi
3- Praeludium in C Major BWV 846
4- Circular Logic
5- Call
6- Andromeda
7- Play
8- Time set
9- Salon
10- Danse

Henri Renaud

"On Saturne"

1951 (réf. PJC-222008).

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.

Toots Thielemans & Les Thompson

"Toots Blues"

1950/52 (réf. PJC 222013).

Under the direction of Dominique Cravic,
Paris Jazz Corner Productions continued its epic work devoted to the atypical instruments. After the accordion (Gus Viseur à Bruxelles, Accordéons au Féminin), this CD is devoted to the harmonica jazz's pionneers: Toots Thielemans and the Thompson.
Tracks 1 to 14: extremely rare sessions of the Flemish harmonicist produced in Sweden and Belgium in 1950 and 1951.
Tracks 15 to 22: a concert recorded at Pasadena of obscure the Les Thompson in 1952.

The reissue of these recordings, hitherto unplubished in CD, is a true event for the chromatic instrument world because they testify to its first meetings with the jazz.

René Urtréger

"Joue Bud Powell"

1955 (réf. PJC. 004.).

Maurice Vander

"Du coté de chez swing"

1981 (réf. PJC003).

Piano Trio.

A wonderful trio set from French pianist Maurice Vander.
Recorded in a style that gets back to some of his older modes, but in a way that still retains some of the freedoms Vander picked up in the 70s!
His work on the keys here is all acoustic, none of the electric piano he sometimes used in the previous decade but the tracks sometimes open up with looser passages, especially on some of the drum work form Charles 'Lolo' Bellonzi, who works in the trio alongside Vander's piano and the bass of Luigi Trussardi.

Track listing : du côté de chez swing - conception - two bass hit - lush life - c.t.a. - l'amour trop fort - étude 969 (ho bello solo/tune up) - boplicity.

Gus Viseur

"A Bruxelles"

1942 (réf. 222006 -).

From Marcel Azzola to Richard Galliano, all accordion greatest claim openly today their debt in this underestimated pioneer of the accordion jazz.

Jack Wilkins

"I WAS BORN IN LOVE WITH YOU"

2015 (réf. PJC 2015).

The last Paris Jazz Corner reissue.

1- Tenderly
2- I was born in love with you
3- The things they did last summer
4- Remember
5- Parisian lady
6- Aisha
7- My heart stood still
8- Dreamville
9- Bluesette
10- Breakfast at Tiffany's
11- Django was here
12- Skylark