Art Blakey

180 Gram HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELITY

Presented here is the complete soundtrack music recorded by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for the French film Des femmes disparaissent (Women Disappear, 1958, directed by Édouard Molinaro). The music for Des femmes disparaissent, which was also originally released on the Fontana label. “The recording session for Des femmes disparaissent,” explained producer Marcel Romano in 1988, “took place during the Jazz Messengers’ first French tour. A few months before, Daniel Filipachi had introduced me to Art Blakey in New York, and I booked him at once for his first tour in Europe. This was the period of ‘Moanin’,’ ‘Blues March,’ etc, and the group was a phenomenal success; recordings of the time, made at the Club St. Germain (RCA) and the Olympia (Fontana) show the level of intensity reached during those concerts.

PERSONNEL:

• ART BLAKEY, drums & leader
• LEE MORGAN, trumpet
• BENNY GOLSON, tenor sax
• BOBBY TIMMONS, piano
• JYMIE MERRITT, bass

Paris, December 18 & 19, 1958.

Note: Art Blakey plays unaccompanied drums on A5. Bobby Timmons plays unaccompanied piano on B3. Benny Golson out on A10. Lee Morgan out on B2

SIDE A:

• 01 GENERIQUE
• 02 PIERRE ET BEATRICE
• 03 NASOL
• 04 TOM
• 05 POURSUITE DANS LA RUELLE
• 06 NE CHUCHOTE PAS
• 07 MAMBO DANS LA VOITURE
• 08 MERLIN
• 09 JUSTE POUR EUX SEULS
• 10 BLUES POUR DOUDOU

SIDE B:

• 01 BLUES POUR MARCEL
• 02 BLUES POUR VAVA
• 03 PASQUIER
• 04 QUAGLIO
• 05 LA DIVORCEE DE LEO FALL
• 06 SUSPENSE, TOM ET NASOL
• 07 DES FEMMES DISPARAISSENTV
• 08 FINAL POUR PIERRE ET BEATRICE