Paris Jazz Corner

Robert Johnson

"Robert Johnson"

1936-1937 (réf. PJCP-222010).

AMAZING !
Reissue -limited edition of 1000 copies- of 78 RPM Robert Johnson's records in 10 inch picture disc with illustrations of Robert Crumb:
a portrait of Robert Johnson on one side, a label with all informations on the other side and a magnificient cover in the tradition of 78 RPM records with another drawing of Crumb illustrating this Paris Jazz Corner series devoted to the popular musics of the XXth century.
Side 1 : Sweet home Chicago - Come on in my kitchen - Crossroad blues (november 1936, Chicago)
Side 2 : I'm a steady rollin' man - Me and the Devil blues - Love in vain blues (June 1937, Dallas

Kamlo Trio

"Lejos de mi tierra (loin de ma terre)"

2004 (réf. PJCP-22017).

Paris Jazz Corner Productions is happy to present you the new album of Kamlo Trio, recorded in 2003.
This record, in the jazz manouche tradition, is self-produced by Pierre 'Kamlo' Barré and it's the first of this kind at Paris Jazz Corner Productions.
In 1997, he meets the guitarist Jean-François Ruiz, from 'Latcho Drom', with which it sympathizes. Together, they create the 'Kamlo Trio'. In June 1999, Kamlo Trio released its first self-produced record: Salambô. Thereafter, Kamlo Trio organizes itself with Franck Winterstein at the guitar, and Claude sheep at the double bass to record in 2003 'lejos Semi Tierra'. Accompanied by Paul-Marie Barber at the vibraphone and Christine Chane-Khane at the accordion, this album allow us to discover the original compositions of Pierre 'Kamlo' Barré.

Gabrielle Koehlhoeffer Randrian & LALATIANA

"Gasy Jazz Project"

2022 (réf. GJP3).

Gasy Jazz Project, meeting between Jazz and the music of Madagascar, is a project formed in 2017 by the Franco-Malagasy double bassist Gabrielle Randrian Koehlhoeffer. After two albums as a trio, she presents a new repertoire of personal compositions accompanied by the singer Lalatiana. A mixed universe to discover!

1- Vaudoo
2- Tsy fantatro (je ne sais pas)
3- Aiza (où)
4- Fanilo
5- Grain de sable
6- Miaina (respirer)
7- Tsiky (sourire)
8- Ny Alina (nuit)
9- Speranza
10- Tso drano (bénédiction)

Lata Mangeshkar

"The Golden Voices of Bollywood - Vol. 1- Lata Mangeshkar The Nightingale of India"

1951-1959 (réf. 984 728-8).

The first record of the serie 'Golden Voices of Bollywood': Lata Mangeshkar. Perhaps the most important star in India. This singer started her successful career in the 1950's and is still a star today.

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

"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.