Ended the week and started the weekend with A Cordes et a Cris a 1979 LP by French double bassist Henri Texier.

Sounfohm wrote in a review of a reissue:

"...Recorded and released in 1979, it encounters the legendary bassist at the top of his game - evolving and pushing into the future with one eye on countless global traditions of the past. Like all of Texier’s solo efforts from this era, it is a stunning tapestry of musical hybridism, taking on equal influences from jazz, ambient and new age musics, minimalism, and the avant-garde, spliced with elements of Celtic, North African, Indian, and Middle Eastern musics. The result, emerging from deft hands, is unlike anything else.

Joined by a cast of contributing figures - the pianist Gordon Beck, Guitarist Aldo Romano, Cellist Jean Charles Capon, and Violinist Didier Lockwood.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx9nsiwb8rE&list=PLuMZUr8vPCWwTuyGmuL4fijC5SU3R8Q9P&index=1

#henritexier #frenchjazz #gordonbeck #didierlockwood

Helen Merrill en concert le 25 mai 1991 au Château Beychevelle à Saint-Julien-Beychevelle

#HelenMerrill (voc), #GordonBeck (p)

#jazz #podcast #francemusique :
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/les-legendes-du-jazz/helen-merrill-en-concert-le-25-mai-1991-au-chateau-beychevelle-a-saint-julien-beychevelle-3407657

@jazz

Didier Lockwood (violin)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Lockwood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Lockwood

born #OnThisDay #OTD (hat tip to @Casura)

Cecil McBee (bass)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_McBee

Billy Hart (drums)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Hart

Gordon Beck (piano)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Beck

"Out Of The Blue"
https://songwhip.com/didierlockwood/out-of-the-blue
(Disques JMS 1985)

#nowlistening #jazz #music
#DidierLockwood
#CecilMcBee
#BillyHart
#GordonBeck