Guy Lafitte

[Larry Kart]

Any recommendations for this excellent French tenorman (1927-1998)? I ask because I like very much what little  I've heard of him but suspect/hope that there's a Lafitte motherlode somewhere -- a single album or a collection of his best work. He's a bigtoned very swinging player out of Hawkins/Webster with very personal habits of accentuation, somewhat like LockJaws' or even those of semi-forgotten altoist Pete Brown.

[Chuck Nessa]

I have a bunch of Lafitte cds. My first choice might be this one (had in on lp earlier)

other Black&Blues are dandy and do not ignore the French RCA discs.

[JSngry]

Lots of records mentioned here! 

[Larry Kart]

Thanks Chuck and Jim. Some of those albums are rather pricey, over $30, but I took the plunge. Beautiful to discover a player like that. BTW, I already have the Bill Coleman/Lafitte at Montreux album. Hey, how about a Guy Lafitte Mosaic? 🙂

[Peter Friedman]

I also have quite a few CDs by Guy Lafitte. Here is one I like a lot.