Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Jazz pour tous! (1959-1969)

Jean-Marie Peterken and Nicolas Dor present Jazz pour Tous!

The wonders of European TV archives never cease. Besides the more recent footage which is being rescued weekly from the vaults of Spanish TV (see here), we have now a bunch of programmes from RTB (Belgian public broadcaster) show Jazz por tous!, "Jazz for everyone!", which was broadcast for ten years from 1959. The show had actually started as a radio programme by Belgian aficionados Nicolas Dor (correspondent for American rag Record Changer covering Belgium, France, and the Netherlands)  and Jean-Marie Peterken, and it had a spin-off in the short-lived festival in Comblain-la-Tour, where Cannonball Adderley recorded his LP Cannonball in Europe in 1962.



Without further ado, these are the shows available (some may be blocked in certain regions):
  • Art Blakey and his New Jazzmen (sic) in Paris, November 3, 1965 (with Freddie Hubbard-t, Nathan Davis-ts, Jaki Byard-p, Reggie Workman-b) (1968.03.16)
  • Charles Lloyd Quartet (Lloyd-ts, fl, Keith Jarrett-p, Cecil McBee-b, Jack DeJohnette-d) (1966.11.13)
  • Charles Mingus, Liège 1964 (with Eric Dolphy-as, b-cl, Clifford Jordan-ts, Jaki Byard-p, Dannie Richmond-d) (1965.04.07)
  • Chet Baker (with Jacques Pelzer-as, fl, René Urtreger-p, Luigi Trussardi-b,Franco Manzecchi-d) (1964.05.02)
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra in Concert in Charleroi, possibly in 1959 (left to right, trumpets: Thad Jones, Snooky Young, Wendell Culley, Joe Newman; trombones: Henry Coker, Al Grey, Benny Powell; reeds: Billy Mitchell, Frank Wess, Marshal Royal, Frank Foster, Charlie Fowlkes; Eddie Jones-b, Freddie Green-g, Sonny Payne-d, Joe Williams-voc) (1961.12.19)
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet (with Paul Desmond-as, Gene Wright-b, Joe Morello-d) (1965.12.11)
  • Earl Hines Trio, live in Comblain-la-Tour (with Roland Haynes-b, Wallace Bishop-d)
  • Earl Hines, Paris Jazz Festival 1967 (with Stuff Smith-v, Roy Eldridge-tp, voc, Don Byas, Ben Webster-ts, Jimmy Woode-b, Kenny Clarke-d) (1967.06.17)
  • JATP in Brussels (with Dizzy Gillespie-tp, voc, Sonny Stitt-as, ts, Lou Levy-p, Ray Brown-b, Gus Johnson-d ) (1958.12.21)
  • Jimmy McGriff Trio (McGriff-org, Thornel Schwartz-g, Richard Easley-d) (1965.10.23)
  • John Coltrane Quartet in Comblain-la-Tour, August 1, 1965 (with McCoy Tyner-p, Jimmy Garrison-b, Elvin Jones-d) (1966-02-19)
  • Lee Konitz Trio w/Bill Evans in Paris, November 3, 1965 (with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen-b, Alan Dawson-d) (1967-01-29)
  • Modern Jazz Quartet (1/2) Recorded on November 5, 1961 (1962.09.29)
  • Modern Jazz Quartet (2/2) Recorded on November 5, 1961 (1963.08.18)
  • René Thomas/Bobby Jaspar (with Jaspar-ts, fl, René Thomas-g, Amedeo Tommasi-p, Benoît Quersin-b, Daniel Humair-d) (1962.01.16)
  • Sammy Price and His New Negro All-Stars in Antwerp, October 24, 1958 (with Price-p, Doc Cheatham-tp, JC Higginbotham-tb, Elmer Crumbley-tb, Eddie Barefield-cl, as, voc, Jimmy Lewis-b,  JC Heard-d, Taffi Douglas-voc) (1962.06.24)
  • Showtime at the Blue Note, live at the Blue Note in Brussels, May 1966 (with Ted Curson-tp, Nathan Davis-fl, Pony Poindexter-as, Booker Ervin-ts, Kenny Drew-p, Jimmy Woode-b, Edgar Baterman-d) (1967.01.07) 
  • Thelonious Monk (1/2), live in Brussels, March 10, 1963 (with Charlie Rouse-ts, John Ore-b, Frankie Dunlop-d) (1965.01.17)
  • Thelonious Monk (2/2), live in Brussels, March 10, 1963 (with Charlie Rouse-ts, John Ore-b, Frankie Dunlop-d) (1963.07.07)

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