JUST A GIGOLO - SIR ALI'S GIRLS
JUST A GIGOLO - SIR ALI'S GIRLS
Ref.: FA532

SIR ALI

Ref.: FA532

Artistic Direction : JEAN MICHEL PROUST & SIR ALI

Label : Frémeaux & Associés

Total duration of the pack : 40 minutes

Nbre. CD : 1

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SIR ALI



“Sir Ali’s Girls started on the stage of the Eléphant Blanc, the hip club within a club downstairs at the Bains Douches, in the mid-1980s. The idea was simple: good fun, good music, & a good show! A joyful concept, without complexes and not easy to categorize, that played around with the standards to create unexpected musical cocktails full of humour. A music that was both accessible and aware. A large repertoire and arrangements that could be adapted according to the setting or the venue, whether for jazz crowd (the New Morning) or Latin (the Chapelle des Lombards).” Sir ALI



Tracklist
  • Piste
    Title
    Main artist
    Autor
    Duration
    Registered in
  • 1
    Mambo de Paris
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:03:36
    1989
  • 2
    Baby Elephant Walk
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:02:48
    1989
  • 3
    Just A Gigolo
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:03:35
    1989
  • 4
    Stormy Weather
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:04:37
    1989
  • 5
    Our Very First Date
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:02:02
    1989
  • 6
    Sixteen Tons
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:03:48
    1989
  • 7
    Boogie In Stereo
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:00:44
    1989
  • 8
    Begin The Beguine
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:01:34
    1989
  • 9
    Naughty Little Flee
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:04:15
    1989
  • 10
    Blue Monk
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:03:57
    1989
  • 11
    La vie en rose
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:04:08
    1989
  • 12
    Quizas Quizas Quizas
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:02:36
    1989
  • 13
    Tequila
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:02:03
    1989
  • 14
    What A Beautiful Mornin'
    Sir Ali's Girls
    00:00:43
    1989
Booklet

Sir Ali’s Girls

Sir Ali’s Girls
Just a gigolo 
Objectif Swing
Mozart fucker
Brouilleur de pistes, brouilleur de swing, Sir Ali est le personnage le plus réjouissant de la scène jazzy d’aujourd’hui. Imaginez un Cab Calloway des années 80 qui serait né à Téhéran. Car cet enfant de la Perse, qui pousse le vice jusqu’à parler le français avec l’accent yankee, est un fanatique. Un fanatique du swing. Fidèle à l’esprit des grands orchestres de la “swing era”, Sir Ali et ses girls proposent le parcours idéal : de Harlem au harem. Avec ses irrésistibles girls et une section de saxos qui débite les riffs les plus torrides, Sir Ali jette en éclatant de rire dans sa marmite orchestrale tout ce qui fait la beauté et la folie du jazz. Il nous fait la totale : samba, rythm and blue, salsa, soul, standards éternels. Sir Ali passe sans transition d’une version gag de “Blue Monk” à une parodie du thème musical de la série télévisée “Mission Impossible”. Avec ce diable d’homme-orchestre, tout est possible. Attention fête !
Gilles Anquetil (Le Nouvel Observateur, 1989)
Barman de tous les cocktails de timbres et de rythmes, mélangeur de Vie en rose et de Rossini, détourneur d’Air Mail Special et autres Flying Home, entremetteur (et en boîtes : Eléphant Blanc, Bains, aujourd’hui New Morning) de jam-sessions, saxophone marmelades et autres bœufs sur un toit brûlant, contrebandier de transes musicales, metteur en scène et en sons des modes (hier Emanuel Ungaro aujourd’hui Angelo Tarlazzi), dissecteur-créateur de monstres musicaux frankensteiniens, Sir Ali – né le 31 Juillet 1953, émigré aux Etats-Unis dix-sept ans plus tard, Parisien depuis 1981 – chanteur, saxo­phoniste, leader, organisateur meneur de spec­tacles, a l’obsession plurielle. Pour cet Américain  à Paris d’origine persane, rien n’est simple, tout est pluriel et passible de fusion, et sous son chapeau se cachent d’innombrables casquettes. Car il procède par superposition et accumulation, ou “métissage” systématique et effréné. Le polyglottisme de ses girls, son franglais très “hip”, la diversité de ses invités et sa très joyeuse et méthodique entreprise de dépaysement nous rappellent que le jazz est né d’une immigration, puis d’un inévitable braconnage et qu’après tout Babel reste un exemple à méditer.
Philippe Carles (Jazz Magazine, 1990) 
Discographie
1. Mambo de Paris (Kennedy-Alstone) 3’30 Solistes : D. Barbier (flûte),  G. Fellove (trompette), J.M. Bernard (piano) 
2. Baby Elephant Walk  (H. Mancini-B. Dega-M. Mondan) 2’44 Soliste : P. Mimran (sax tenor) 
3. Just a Gigolo (Casucci-Brammer-Caesar) 3’29 Soliste : G. Fellove (trompette) 
4. Stormy Weather (H.Arlen-T.Koehler) 4’30 Lead vocal : E. Kontomanou ; soliste :  J.M. Proust (sax baryton) 
5. Our very first date (Sir Ali) /  ma pomme (Borel-Clerc) 2’00 
6. Sixteen tons (Trad.) 3’43 Solistes : G. Baudet (trompette),  J.M. Bernard (orgue) 
7. Boogie in stereo (John Hartford-Sir Ali) 0’41 
8. Begin the beguine (C. Porter) 1’33 Soliste : D. Barbier (flûte) 
9. Naughty little flee (M. Makeba) 4’10 Soliste : D. Barbier (flûte alto),  P. Mimran (flûte) ; Lead vocal : B. Gorden
10. Blue Monk (Th. Monk-Sir Ali) 3’53  Soliste : W. Treve (trombone) ; scat : Sir Ali 
11. La vie en rose (Louiguy-Piaf) 4’03 
12. Quizás quizás quizás (M. Sarres) 2’33 Lead vocal : G. Renoir ; soliste :  G. Fellove (trompette)  
13. Tequila (C. Rio) 1’58 
14. What a beautiful mornin’  (Tex Avery in Oklahoma) 0’41 
Collaboration & trust for passion, is the moral of our story: making the record was a piece of cake, but without the collaboration and attention this multi-layered cake, rotating on your set, would have been a pudding! This classic is dedicated to my Duke E., my monk: Th. Monk, my queen: Regine S. And also to my High Priest: Jon Hendricks.  
Sir Ali 
Mambo de Paris: Naturally we start our cocktail hour with a sweet and spicy Franglais tableau, illustrating how the folks in “Gay Paree” love the Ooooh and Mambooo ! From la Chapelle des Lombards (the capital of colourful dancing) to Emanuel Ungaro (the captain of colourful fashion)… It’s not too fast and not too slow, not too hard nor too soft… just staying in a permanent state of La vie en Rose ! 
Baby Elephant’s Walk: John Wayne’s naughty little elephants in Hatari, were the first to shake their bodies along with this springy twist. Then, from Quincy Jones to Harry James to… all the dance halls, from the Bronx to Timbuktu to… every one did the “Elephant Walk”… before it was sucked into  history’s trunk! To re-tickle the past, the tune needed a boost-up, a set of lyrics and a decent refrain. As the elephant sax and tympani crashed into one another, papa elephant was born acoustically in the studio. 
Just a Gigolo: Here it is finally, the real, and yet not the original version of the everlasting hit! Yes, the original gigolo was found in tango saloons and not in swing clubs… The hip tango gigolo’s ego also got the disco and mambo… While the moaning bounce in limbo! 
Stormy weather: As Jon Hendricks would put it: “This number needs no introduction… So we ain’t gonna give it none”… Only them unlucky souls, departed before “Stormy Weather” was written have no heard this ultimate monument of melo-cinematic, Holywoodian-jazz, ballad suite! Yet the only complete performance was given only once by Lena Horne, for the original motion picture. Here the piece is more of a suite, going through four transformations. Between the soupy opening ballad and the closing dirty blues, Latin heat-wave pulses away and a swing hurricane jumps around! But wait there’s someone dancing in the rain… another’s singing from heaven (or is it Broadway!)… And for them serious Jazz freaks the swing section horn interlude is strongly recommended! 
Our First date / Ma Pomme: Of course it’s an “absurdly corny” or “absurd yet corny” original interlude that abuses Chevalier’s anthem as sauce-thickener!
Sixteen Tons: In all modesty, this must be the funkiest, the chunkiest and most up roaring re-incarnation of any “work song/Miner’s lament”! 
Boogie in stereo: To end the first side (of the  original LP) in stereo. 
Begin the Beguine: According to the Guinness book of records, Cole Porter’s charming monster remains as the longest living song in history. Therefore we present its shortest version by only beginning to begin the Beguine. 
Naughty little flea: I’ve always loved Harry Belafonte, so reworking an original Calypso was not such an odd idea, especially the particular sweet + silly Trinidad air, borrowed from Myriam Makeba. With a little help from my friends, parts were translated into French (for double pleasure). The tale follows the joys of a flea that went to a Bardot-show, sitting on his favourite doggie’s knee. 
Blue Monk: Monk’s music is unique in all senses: simple and complex, rich in fibre, adapt to all forms and rhythms and always angularly personal. My word on his most magical theme, are merely a personal homage to the man’s character, his music… and their hum-ability! It begins with soul collaboration from Stan Kenton and Perez Prado. In all evidence Basie and Braxton share the Encore! Centred between a R&B plucking of electric bass and organ on one side, a Latin walking acoustic bass and piano on the other, a whole mass of horns & voices provoke a  dangerous see-saw motion that only Monk’s tune can give balance to. 
La vie en rose: Well, it’s life… and it’s rosy!... Simple and straight… gay and bluesy… Full of ups & downs… From keys to strings… on a sonata out of the moon light. 
Quizas, quizas: Unlike the other songs, this ultimate classic of the Latin empire remains very roots a clear spot… even the constant switch between straight salsa and flamenco-funko is effortless. 
Tequila/do-wap: Take a drink… Do the Scooby doo… Wap do-wap… it’s the high hour of the carnival… Voices and voices… Percussions and more beats… it’s a beasty feast… take two tequilas… 
What a beautiful mornin’: to return to the first side of the LP! (Yes LP, this album was conceptua­lized originally as a vinyl) Sir Ali 
Musiciens :
Sir Ali : Leader, Vcl, Elephant Sax.
Elisabeth Kontomanou : Vcl.
Cathy Renoi : Vcl.
Bessie Gordon : Vcl.
Guy “mimile” Baudet : Tp.
Guiliermo Fellove : Tp.
William Trève : Tb., Vcl.
Denis Barbier : As., Fl. Vcl.
Jean-Michel Proust : Ts., Bar.s.
Pierre Mimran : Ts., Bar.s, Fl.
Cesar Strocio : Bandonéon (10)
Emmanuel Vergeade : G.
Jena-Michel Bernard : P., Org., Synth.
Vincent Charbonnier : Cb
Remy Sarrazin : Basse (2, 6, 10, 12)
Vincent Cordelette : Perc. 
Thierry Harpino : dms. 
Concept musicale et Orchestration : Sir Ali
Arrangements et direction musicale : Jean-Michel Bernard ; sauf 5, 7, 8 : Sir Ali 
Enregistré par Jean-Louis Witas ; mixé par Jean Marnay au Studio J.L. Witas (Chaville) : décembre 1988 et janvier 1989.
Illustration et conception graphique originale : Brian W. Stevens
Photo : Jean-Pierre Favreau
Produit par Jean-Michel Proust et Sir Ali pour Big Blue Records Frémeaux & Associés cessionnaire 2010.
  
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