Richard Raux?

[JSngry]

Been listening to him on Roy Burrowes Sextet - Live At The Dreher and am really liking how he plays. Did a Google search, and wow, he pretty much sounds like he looks!

A really nicely variated phases-of-strangulation tone, a fine rhythmic feel that puts his swing in sync with his tone, and a good ear for changes & possibilities therein.

Anyway, this one album is the only place I've heard him, but it appears that he's been around for a while, so those who can sing his praises, please do!

[Larry Kart]

Checked out this YouTube clip (there are more):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o36wybpoElE

Your description above seems apt.

French dude, b. 1945. Studied with Phil Woods, Nathan Davis, George Russell.

[JSngry]

Wow, that;s kinda painful, what with that rhythm section...

Raux is heard to much better advantage on the Burrowes album, where he's got Mal Waldron comping behind him, and a repertoire more, uh, less, uh...well, you know...

1. Old Compton Street (R. Burrowes)

2. Hard Talk (M. Waldron)

3. Sometimes (R. Burrowes)

4. Jamaica (R. Burrowes)

5. Searching (R. Burrowes)

6. Sea Gulls (Mal Waldron)

7. Symphony In Blues (R. Burrowes)

8. Going Back Home (R. Burrowes)

Roy Burrowes - trumpet, flugelhorn

Richard Raux - tenor & soprano sax

Mal Waldron - piano

Patrice Caratini - bass

George Brown - drums

Roger Raspail - percussion on 4 & 8

Recorded live at jazz club Le Dreher, Paris, March 10, 1980

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[brownie]

Fine player. Have heard him live to good advantage with Eddy Louiss back in the '80s.

Richard Raux

[relyles]

Now listening to a private recording of a Sunny Murray performance from 1989 in Raab, Austria with Raux, Curtis Clark and Tony Overwater. Never heard of him before so I did a good search and came across this old thread. I am intrigued.

[brownie]

Richard Raux in September 2000 at the Paris club Sunset, with Olivier Hutman, piano, Wayne Dockery, bass, and Charles Bellonzi, drums...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5mjc6F0Bm4

Edited June 25, 2013 by brownie

[dova]

Is this Roy Burrowes Live session any good? I haven't a clue except with MaL Waldron, that does prop it up some.

[king ubu]

Not life-changing ... but if you can get it for change (like I did, several years back), get it!

[clifford_thornton]

I only know him from a little bit of work w/ Sunny Murray and Alan Silva/IACP. Good player.

[Leeway]

I posted this over in the Vinyl Thread; did not see this thread. Anyway, Raux is on this album and does a really good job, along with Bobby Few Alan Silva, Pablo Sauvage and Sunny Murray: