Modern Jazz Au Club Saint Germain (SR07/1)

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1955

Modern Jazz Au Club Saint Germain

Sam Records

3700409813559

LPS 143448

SR07/1

JAZZ

1

Modern Jazz Au Club Saint Germain

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REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

(ORIGINALLY BARCLAY)

PERSONNEL:

BOBBY JASPAR, tenor sax, flute
SACHA DISTEL, guitar
RENÉ URTREGER, piano
BENNOIT QUERSIN, bass
JEAN-LOUIS VIALE, drums

Recorded December 27 and 29, 1955 at the Pathé Magellan studio, Paris.

SIDE A

01. Bag's Groove
02. Memory of Dick
03. Miles Tone
04. Minor Drops

SIDE B

01. I Remember April
02. You Stepped Out Of a Dream
03. I Can't Get Started
04. Night In Tunisia

After hitting Paris in 1950, saxophonist Bobby Jaspar enthralled jazz fans and jazzmen alike with his smooth, elegant playing, with the lyricism of his tranquil phrases heavily influenced by Stan Getz in particular. So when Jaspar began regularly performing with a small ensemble at the Club St-Germain five years later, he adopted the same instrumentation as that of his idol's illustrious quintet, with Sacha Distel on guitar and René Urtreger on piano in the roles of Jimmy Raney and Al Haig, respectively.

Contrary to what its title might suggest, ‘Modern Jazz au Club St-Germain' was actually recorded in the studio. It features compositions by Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis along with a handful of standards, in which the angular aridity of bebop gives way to the generous and yet sensitive idiom of cool jazz.

Jaspar's premature death in 1963 robbed the jazz world of a promising talent; this record is among his best efforts as a leader. Bobby Jaspar is in top form here !!!