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jef gilson - jef gilson - jazzman - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz - French Jazz

1. Up To The Light
2. Accueil
3. Valse Pour Helene
4. Blue-Bizz
5. Valse A Quatre Temps
6. Agnus Dei
7. Modalite Pour Mimi
8. Track 8
9. Chakan
10. Jazz A La Carte
11. Un Pas, Deux Pas, Cent Pas
12. Valerie's Waltz
13. Suite Pour San Remo: Ouverture
14. Strings For One
15. Suite Pour San Remo: Adriano
16. Espagnolade
17. Chant Inca
18. Hommage A Rakotozafy
19. The Creator Has A Masterplan

A lifetime in jazz from the illustrious French musician, producer, composer, arranger, band leader, sound engineer, music teacher, label-owner, and multi-instrumentalist par excellence!

With his career spanning the best part of a century, Gilson has made music with a who�s who of European and American jazz greats, has written, performed on and recorded innumerable film scores, albums and 45s, ran the Palm jazz record label� yet despite all this the French jazzman remains criminally under appreciated by so many jazz fans. Look him up on the internet � there isn�t even a Wikipedia entry! Jazzman addresses this unfortunate situation by releasing 19 songs spanning decades of his recording career on this album, simply entitled Jef Gilson.

THE MUSIC

High points include the awesome modal masterpiece Modalite Pour Mimi, Chakan and Agnus Dei which feature a cathedral choir, and lesser-known private recordings such as Valerie�s Waltz and Valse a Quatre Temps, field recordings made on his trip to Madagascar, including a percussive version of the Lloyd Miller favourite Chant Inca and an unforgettable version of Pharoah Sanders� cult classic �The Creator has a Masterplan�.


� The finest recordings made during a lifetime in jazz from an exceptional yet neglected French genius

� Never-before-seen pictures, photos and images on one CD/double gatefold LP

� Exhaustive and extensive original liner notes in both English AND French

� 180g vinyl pressing with cool textured art sleeve