Guy Lafitte

[Dave James]

I got a care package from Dusty Groove last night with three Guy Lafitte CD's, "Jamba!", "Blues in Summertime" and Sugar and Spice". I haven't had much of a chance to familiarize myself with the music as yet, but I got a kick out of the liner notes on the outside of these French RCA reissues. Here are some examples:

From "Jamba!": "A longtime representative of middle jazz, Guy Lafitte resolutely oversteps the stylistic boundaries in which he earned his wings."

From "Blues": "Guy Lafitte treats us to nine pieces that let him develop freely, preaching, conversing, convincing, gentle, or serious on the topic he values above all: musical emotion."

From "Sugar and Spice": "In this record, the tracks quite sweet, even meditative at times, counter-balance the magical and that sort of frantic swing of the others."

Sounds like someone got ahold of a French to English dictionary and ran a fairly literal word for word translation. It is a nice touch though.

Up over and out.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Sounds like some of the dusty groovers are freelancing.

Dave, please, tell us about that "Jambo"!? :"a wickedly soulful set...bristles with excitement...surprising soul jazz groovers..." (already used)

Edited June 11, 2004 by Man with the Golden Arm

[brownie]

Strange that Dusty Groove has already shipped them when the new French Gold Series CDs just appeared in Paris stores only today!

But I also had some of the new MPS reissues shipped from Germany and the States weeks ago before thet became available here.

Anyway, the Guy Lafitte original RCA LPs disappeared pretty quickly. Glad to see them reissued.

[couw]

I would like these to pop up in Germanee soon too, pretty please.