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« Félicitations à Bruno Blum pour le livret et les références. » Par Blues Again
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )« Comme toujours chez Fremeaux, le livret documenté nous éclaire sur le vaudou, ses origines, ses ramifications. En réaction au cadre rigoriste du protestantisme Américain, au racisme et à la ségrégation, le voodoo, porte fantasmée vers l’Afrique, ou douce hérésie érotique, devient un exutoire pour les musiciens afro-américains, en quête de racines et d’identités. Patrick Fremeaux pose le cadre de cette compilation qui nous offre toute l’Afro-Créolité des musiques américaines. Du blues de Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lightnin Hopkins, au jazz d’Art Blakey, au calypso de Blind Blake & The Royal Victorian Hotel Calypso Orchestra (‘Spirit Rum’), jusqu’au morceau de bravoure, mixture swamp du sorcier hurlant Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, ‘Alligator Wine’ point d’orgue de cette compilation qui devrait trouver une place de choix chez tous les amoureux de musique, sorciers ou non. Félicitations à Bruno Blum pour le livret et les références. »Par Nicolas MILANI – BLUES AGAIN
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« One of the major French pop composers of the 1950s » par Amazon.com
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )“French popular music changed radically after World War Two -- like American pop, it shed its rougher, jazzier edges in favor of a swanker, more sophisticated sound, and while nods were made to the nostalgic themes and musette sounds of pre-war years, a more streamlined orchestral sound soon became the norm. One of the key players in this stylistic shift was songwriter Francis Lemarque, who was best known for his association with film star and pop crooner Yves Montand, for whom he wrote numerous hits. Lemarque penned hits for many artists, including some older chanson stars but largely for the new generation of singers who took up the torch in the late '40s and early '50s. Lemarque also became a performer in his own right, and this deluxe 2-CD set collects dozens of tracks he recorded for the Fontana label in the decade between 1949-59. It features Lemarque singing in front of the orchestras of Michel Legrand, Emil Stern, and Rudi Revil (whose career was closely linked to his o [...]
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“The breadth of French dance band” par Amazon.com
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )“This 2-CD set of big band swing from postwar France concentrates on instrumental dance band recordings, with only a handful of vocal tunes, and those delivered either in English or Slim Gaillard/Cab Calloway-style scat singing. That takes a little bit of the fun out of it for me, since I always prefer to hear "foreign" artists singing in their own language, and prefer big band vocals to big band instrumentals. Still, it's fun to discover the breadth of French dance band in the late '40s and early '50s, and there are a lot of artists here that go well beyond the scope of well-known bandleaders like Jacques Helian and Ray Ventura, who worked in the field before the war. Amid musicians such as Aime Barelli, Christian Bellest, Fernand Clare, Georgie Kay and Maurice Moufflard there are Count Basie and Benny Goodman imitators aplenty, with a number of hot soloists developing in their ranks. In later recordings, some bands took up the challenge of erudite arrangers such Stan Kenton and [...]
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“Highly recommended!“ par Amazon.com
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )“This is, quite simply, the best collection of vintage French swing that you are likely to find. A delicious, delightfully playful 2-CD set, full of bouncy dance tunes and bluesy novelty songs galore. Includes several chanson superstars -- Charles Aznavour, Charles Trenet, Yves Montand -- who adopted the style on some of their songs, and others such as Fred Adison, Johnny Hess, Irene Trebert and Ray Ventura, who built their careers around the big band/swing sound. Also a hefty dose of gypsy jazz from Django Reinhardt and his cohorts, as well as accordion-wielding musette instrumentalists who dug the jive as well. There is considerable overlap on this collection and various single-artist releases by Fremeaux but it's hard not to love this well-curated, compact overview -- it's a really fun, enjoyable record! And if you don't have any of this music already, then this is a definite must-have. Highly recommended!“Par DJ JOE SIX PACK – AMAZON.COM
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“Gems from the forro tradition” par Amazon.com
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )“This fab 2-CD set focusses on one of the master musicians of the pre-bossa nova Brazilian samba-cancao (song-samba) era, Bahian composer Dorival Caymmi, and on the pioneers of the Northeastern dance style called forro, Luiz Gonzaga and vocalist Jackson Do Pandeiro. Disc One focusses exclusively on Caymmi's work, cherry-picking his best recordings of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, along with a great pair of songs by the vocal group Anjos Do Inferno. Most of his tracks are the sort of stentorian, John Jacob Niles-ish folksongs he specialized in, balanced by some sizzling sambas performed with various small bands. (Many of his songs were also recorded by Carmen Miranda, and her absence is keenly felt here, although his originals are harder to come by, so I'm not really complaining... This is an excellent introduction to his work.) Disc Two is where this collection's editor, musician Teca Calazans, really shows her strengths, selecting gems from the forro tradition, in particular finding [...]
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“A great way to explore deeper into the history of Brazilian popular song!” par
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )“The history of Brazilian popular music is often seen to hinge on the release of a single song, singer-guitarist Joao Gilberto's transcendent, revolutionary "Chega De Saudade," a gentle, intoxicating ditty written by composer-arranger Tom Jobim that made bossa nova the new national music of Brazil, back in 1958, when it came out as a single. However, like any other country, Brazil's cultural history is complex and multi-layered and obviously Gilberto and Jobim didn't just come out of nowhere. This magnificent 2-CD set -- compiled by the ever-fab French archival label, Fremeaux -- documents the many crosscurrents and interconnections that set the stage for bossa nova to explode in the late 1950s, first in Brazil and then across the globe. Both Jobim and Gilberto had long careers in the years before their ascent into the heavens: many of the rare tracks gathered here show their early work with other artists, including early versions of Jobim songs performed by the stars of the 1 [...]
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“You’ll relish every note” par Blues Matters
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )“As Chuck Berry astutely wrote; ‘RolI over, Beethoven – tell Tchaikovsky the news’. I make no apologies for proclaiming the blues to be the classical music of the pop world. As such, with the epic European composers, it’s damned difficult to decide who, among Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler or Bach, is more important. The same goes for what came out of Mississippi and Chicago. I listen to Howlin’ Wolf and say ‘yeah – he’s the man...’ then you’re faced with Robert Johnson or John Lee Hooker … yet in the end McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters, has to be the Beethoven of Blues. This 3-CD set of 30 tracks apiece is Muddy Waters at his peak. It kicks off with the atmospheric Long Distance Call and the suggestive Too Young to Know, and includes some lesser-known tracks such as Stuff You Gotta Watch and the curious Iodine in My Coffee. CD 2 plunges headlong into the Willie Dixon/Chess classics, including Mannish Boy and Hoochie Coochie Man, Mojo and Close to You, and the third CD, entitled [...]
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« Près du cœur » par Jazz Magazine- Jazz news
Catégories : Article de presse ( Article de presse )« Dominique Cravic produit Rencontre à Paris entre les deux accordéonistes de ses Primitifs du futur, Raul Barboza et Daniel Colin, assez loin du jazz, près du cœur. »Franck Bergerot – Jazz Magazine- Jazz news