Cinq Hops by Jacques Thollot, released on Free Bird in 1978.
Vinyl from the Vaults wrote:
"First impressions are scrambling to describe this strange album from 1978, the fourth drummer Jacques Thollot. At his side, the cream of jazz hexagonal (Celea, Couturier, Jeanneau and the late Michel Graillier), but also the American soprano Elise Ross, whose voice just gives a classic touch to the whole mystique...
Jacques Thollot is "drummer" who at the outbreak of free jazz in the sixties in France, had shattered the extent and tempo for an exhilarating excess of freedom. Released in 1978, Five Hops, his fourth album, considered by experts as the best offers thirteen pieces of chamber music, from jazz-rock universe, classic and contemporary. Intriquant in the most classical influences with compositions squinting side of jazz-rock..."
https://vinylfromthevaults.blogspot.com/2014/10/jacques-thollot-cinq-hops-1978.html


