INA's jazz vaults

[bichos]

great site but strange that there is n o t h i n g from lester young. there m u s t be something in the archives!!!!

keep boppin´

marcel

[brownie]

Lester Young was part of the Norman Granz stable which was affiliated to the Europe 1 radio station. Europe 1 was very much jazz oriented at the time and taped a Prez broadcast with Oscar Dennard and René Urtreger in March 1959.

The tape has not surfaced yet and since Europe 1 tends to ignore jazz altogether nowadays, there is very little chances that the session will reappear any time soon.

[brownie]

No parades indeed, but - just in case - did you see the stuff they filed under Bernard Pfeiffer?

Of course, very interesting music there.

I should not have been surprised by the absence of Peiffer on those Piano Parade broadcasts since the show got its start at about the time he left for the United States!

[Michael Weiss]

Lester Young was part of the Norman Granz stable which was affiliated to the Europe 1 radio station. Europe 1 was very much jazz oriented at the time and taped a Prez broadcast with Oscar Dennard and René Urtreger in March 1959.

The tape has not surfaced yet and since Europe 1 tends to ignore jazz altogether nowadays, there is very little chances that the session will reappear any time soon.

There's not enough Oscar Dennard!

[bichos]

Lester Young was part of the Norman Granz stable which was affiliated to the Europe 1 radio station. Europe 1 was very much jazz oriented at the time and taped a Prez broadcast with Oscar Dennard and René Urtreger in March 1959.

The tape has not surfaced yet and since Europe 1 tends to ignore jazz altogether nowadays, there is very little chances that the session will reappear any time soon.

thanks, brownie, for this information. according to the "lestorian notes" discography by koster/mobach this must be this session:

lester young band. radio broadcast, paris, france, march 11, 1959. lester young, ts, oscar dennard, p, rené urtreger, p, jimmy gourley, el-g, jamil nasser, b, buster smith, d.

-d.b. blues (inc.)

unissued. broadcast march 21, 1959 "carrefour du jazz".

keep boppin´

marcel

[brownie]

Another broadcast by Lester Young live from the Europe 1 radio station in 1956. Image taken by photographer Jean-Claude Bernath who was a frequent visitor at the radio station at the time.

Europe 1 only released the tapes of the concerts they organised (the Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, etc...) on their Trema-Europe 1 label but none of the sessions they recorded in the Europe 1 studios off the Champs-Elysees.

Our loss!

[bichos]

Another broadcast by Lester Young live from the Europe 1 radio station in 1956. Image taken by photographer Jean-Claude Bernath who was a frequent visitor at the radio station at the time.

Europe 1 only released the tapes of the concerts they organised (the Jazz Messengers, Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, etc...) on their Trema-Europe 1 label but none of the sessions they recorded in the Europe 1 studios off the Champs-Elysees.

Our loss!

thanks, brownie. fine photos and fine prices for them!

that must be from october/november 1956.

keep boppin´

marcel

[Niko]

apparently there's a new type of project at ina with lenghty interviews up for streaming... so far only one jazz entry, 9 hours of Martial Solal, given my level of french, the best news to me is that there are transcriptions for reading along...

http://www.ina.fr/grands-entretiens/video/Musique/Solal

[brownie]

apparently there's a new type of project at ina with lenghty interviews up for streaming... so far only one jazz entry, 9 hours of Martial Solal, given my level of french, the best news to me is that there are transcriptions for reading along...

http://www.ina.fr/grands-entretiens/video/Musique/Solal

The Solal interview was the DVD that accompanied the INA/Michel de Maule book 'Martial Solal, Compositeur de l'Instant' by Xavier Prévost

Better know French to really appreciate it!

[brownie]

Out in the next few weeks, there will be a single CD Jazz aux Champs-Elysées that will include unreleased music that was broadcast from 1955 to 1959 on the French RTF program of that name.

The CD will include music by Lester Young, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Stéphane Grappelli, Blossom Dearie and others.

It will part of the INA Mémoire séries that already produced the 2CD Jazz sur la Croisette compilation.

[brownie]

INA announcement (in French) on the release of the Jazz aux Champs-Elysées CD.

Jazz aux Champs-Elysées

Glad to see the album will also include material from Lucky Thompson.

[AllenLowe]

unless I've forgotten my French, they seem to be reissuing the Piaf/DeGaulle/Vichy recordings with James Moody and Coco Chanel.

[brownie]

Details on the two newly-discovered Lester Young tracks on that INA release (not out yet):

Lester Young with the SDR Big Band, Lester Leaps In

Lester Young with René Urtreger, piano, Pierre Michelot, bass, and Christian Garros, drums, Jumpin' with Symphony Sid.

Both from the October 13, 1956 'Jazz aux Champs-Elysées' concert at the Théatre de Chaillot.

The INA disc also includes sides with René Thomas, Guy Lafite, Blossom Dearie, Lucky Thompson and also with Donald Byrd and Bobby Jaspar (with Jacques Diéval at the piano), Walter Davis Jr., Chet Baker with Catherina Valente, a Daniel Humair group (with Jimmy Deuchar, Roger Guérin and Derek Humble!), Stan Getz with Michel Legrand, Stéphane Grappelli and more...

[AllenLowe]

Prez "live"? Cause for celebration.

[brownie]

Along with the official release of the Jazz aux Champs-Elysées CD, INA has added various broadcasts from the radio program to its audio file including this 1964 interpretation of Naima by Eric Dolphy.

Other Jazz aux Champs-Elysées broadcasts that have just been added include performances by Bobby Jaspar, Kenny Drew, Donald Byrd, Jean-Luc Ponty and others...

INA audios

[bichos]

there is also billie holiday live from 1958! last week it was possible to see the entire 5 minute clip....

keep boppin´

marcel

[brownie]

there is also billie holiday live from 1958! last week it was possible to see the entire 5 minute clip....

keep boppin´

marcel

Missed that when it was posted. Thanks for catching this, bichos!

Will include the full clip in my next DVD from INA.

The accompanying text is wrong. This was not filmed during her dramatic appearance at the Olympia but a few days later (probably at le Moulin de la Galette) when she looked much better!

[brownie]

This week, INA also added images from its archives.

Some interesting ones in the jazz section!

Type 'jazz' in the Recherche window!

Couple of samples...

Miles Davis recording the music to 'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud'

Thelonious Monk enjoying a soft drink at the bar of the Olympia Theater.

[bertrand]

I finally got a DVD player which will allegedly have no issues with regions etc. So I want to buy the Jackie McLean Chat Qui Peche video. How do I proceed? Has anyone bough this one?

Thanks,

Bertrand,

[Hardbopjazz]

I tried too buy some myself, albeit my French is non-existent, I sent an email asking how to buy. I never received a reply. Has anyone in the US been able to purchase from this place?

[brownie]

I finally got a DVD player which will allegedly have no issues with regions etc. So I want to buy the Jackie McLean Chat Qui Peche video. How do I proceed? Has anyone bough this one?

Thanks,

Bertrand,

I know of at least two people from the US that bought DVDs from INA and were satisfied. They have some knowledge of french and managed to order without problems.

Since you speak the language you should have no trouble at all getting what you want.

The McLean is a bit short on time. I am sure you will find other items of interest in the INA jazz vaults to fill a DVD.

The McLean by the way was not taped at Le Chat Qui Pèche... Looks more to me like a French TV/Radio studio!

[prozat]

Miles Davis recording the music to 'Ascenseur pour l'Echafaud'

Actually, this is not really Miles Davis recording the music to "Ascenseur", but rather Miles pretending to do so. In fact, the picture has been taken during a reconstitution of the session, shot for the TV show "Cinépanorama". You can see the full video here You can see very clearly that Miles' lips are not synchronized with the music, and they are no other musicians around him.

Very beautiful pictures, though!

[prozat]

Along with the official release of the Jazz aux Champs-Elysées CD, INA has added various broadcasts from the radio program to its audio file including this 1964 interpretation of Naima by Eric Dolphy.

Other Jazz aux Champs-Elysées broadcasts that have just been added include performances by Bobby Jaspar, Kenny Drew, Donald Byrd, Jean-Luc Ponty and others...

INA audios

It seems that there is a lot more "Jazz aux Champs-Elysées" audio available now:

Herb Geller

Donald Byrd & Bobby Jaspar

Kenny Drew

Eric Dolphy

Jean-Luc Ponty (over 2 hours, including duets with Svend Asmussen!)

Oddly enough, some of these files are available at the Ina boutique, but do not appear when you type "Jazz aux Champs-Elysées" or the artist's name in the search field...

[brownie]

Thanks for the comments.

Proves it is worth checking with the INA site to check on the new items they offer!

[prozat]

Again, new "Jazz aux Champs-Elysées" stuff to discover on Ina.fr:

- New audio material by Toots Thielemans and Lucky Thompson (including a quintet featuring Bill Byers).

- Videos from various TV shows produced by Jack Diéval. These include four-hands piano performances by Diéval together with Blossom Dearie and Kenny Drew, a fabulous Quintet with Woody Shaw and Nathan Davis, a quartet performance with Pearcy Heath and two stunning solo piano pieces by Duke Ellington himself!