New 'Jazz in Paris' double CD : BILL COLEMAN

[king ubu]

I ordered them from Amazon.fr and got a message about a delay until early January.

Got that with the order confirmation mail? Or separately? I didn't get any such message!

Edited December 8, 2005 by king ubu

[brownie]

Strange that the new releases cannot be shipped by now.

The usual record stores in Paris all carry the new releases.

[king ubu]

My package was sent yesterday, so I hope to have it by the end of the week!

[jazzbo]

I noticed that Dusty Groove got it in. .. (I didn't order it, I'm broke!) and they also had all four boxes of Jazz in Paris this weekend at 19.99!

[Brad]

$19.99 sounds like a good deal. I'm checking it out.

[neveronfriday]

Got both of mine today.

Fine price as well if it weren't for the stupid 7 Euro 60 shipping (for goddam what? Transporting it a few kilometers to my place?) plus stupid extra taxes.

God, Europe sucks at times.

[king ubu]

mine arrived today

[ejp626]

I received these today. The Coleman is nice, but I think the Jean-Claude Fohrenbach is much more interesting, in large part because so little of it ever saw the light of day. If I am reading it correctly, Fohrenbach only released two LPs under his name (and a 2001 CD called Francofeel). The first CD is fairly straight-forward jazz. Fohrenbach doesn't sound like Guy Lafitte, but people that like the Lafitte JiP recordings should also like this. The first 8 tracks are from Fohrenbach French Sound, recorded in 1954. The next four tracks are side A of Mais qu'avez-vous donc fait de la face cachee de la lune, docteur Fohrenbach. These tracks were recorded in 1978 with Georges Arvantis (p) and Jacky Sampson (g).

CD 2 starts with 5 tracks from the B side of this record, where Jean-Claude plays all the instruments (generally tenor or piano) and double, triple, quadruple tracks the music to sound like a large band. Really quite interesting, particularly his version of Four Brothers.

Everything else on CD 2 is unreleased and was recorded in 1963 or 1966 (I'm noticing a few hiccups in the recordings -- probably in the source tapes -- but overall not bad quality). I do like the Sexfide (sextet) he put together in 1966 and it is a shame that he didn't meet with more success. Truly an obscure artist.

I wonder how many more sets are going to be released in this new series.