René Urtreger question

[king ubu]

one for brownie?

on the universal France website, 4 cds by René Urtreger are listed (see link below)

Universal France

They seem to look very nice, with solo, quartet and quintet recordings from 1977, 1980, 1985 and 1987, with players like Jean-Louis Chautemps, Jean-Louis Viale, NHOP, Christian Escoudé, André Ceccarelli, Aldo Romano, Jean-François Jenny-Clark.

Anyone knows them? Can recommend one or all of them? (brownie?...)

ubu

[brownie]

Rene Urtreger is a favorite. I would be inclined to recommend the four but

'Recidive' would be my at the top of the list. 'En Direct d'Antibes' I heard it only once

and did not feel like getting it when it came out on LP. I have not heard these four

Carlyne reissues yet.

There are a couple of Urtreger albums I would strongly recommend (both on the

French label Sketch):

- Onirica, a magnificient 2000 solo album,

- H.U.M., a 3-CD set with Daniel Humair and Pierre Michelot. Three sessions

from 1960, 1979 and 1999. The original session was excellent. The two further

reunions were even better.

Urtreger who started strong in the '50s, ran into hard times in the '60s (that's when

he played in the group that accompanied pop singer Claude Francois) and made a

rather unheralded comeback in the late '70s. He is now playing better than ever,

as on 'Onirica' which is made up of short and swinging introspective numbers with a

wide variety of moods.

[king ubu]

thanks, brownie. I listened to some of H.U.M. and did like it! Will get hold of it when money allows

ubu