Paris Reunion Band Discography of CDs

Paris Reunion Band music CDs This musical release from the jazz ensemble the Paris Reunion Band captures a live performance by the group, celebrating the jazz themes of the 1940's. Some of the songs featured in the concert include "Callitwachawanna", "The Big Fist", "Foofy For President", "To Kill a Brick", and more. This DVD is a magnificent tribute to the legendary drummer Kenny Clarke who died in 1984 and to the Paris Jazz scene of the 1960's. Kenny Clarke or "Klook" spent the later part of his life in the French capital. Featured in PRB are great jazz musicians like Woody Shaw, Dizzy Reece, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, Kenny Drew, Jimmy Woode and Billy Brooks.

Paris Reunion Band discography As both a founder member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and through his work with a variety of lauded jazz musicians, jazz drummer Kenny Clarke helped shape how the genre would sound. The Paris Reunion Band paid the ultimate tribute to Clarke by specifically forming so they could play his music. Here, a nine-piece lineup of the group pays further tribute to Clarke in a concert filmed in Stuttgart. The Paris Reunion Band was conceived in the Fall of 1984 as a way of paying musical homage to Kenny Clarke and of recapturing the mood and spirit of Paris in the late fifties and early sixties, when it was the jazz capital of Europe –it has multi-national associations.

Paris Reunion Band songs For Klook is a tender and moving piece of musical meditation, this is Kenny Drew's tribute to a friend and an irreplaceable master musician. Liner Note Authors: The Mike Hennessey Chastet; Mike Hennessey. Recording information: Sonet Studios, Stockholm, Sweden (10/23/1986/10/24/1986). Photographers: Bengt H. Malmqvist; Herman Leonard. Paris Reunion Band: Joe Henderson, Nathan Davis (tenor saxophone); Nat Adderley, Woody Shaw (trumpet); Grachan Moncur III (trombone); Kenny Drew (piano); Jimmy Woode (bass instrument); Idris Muhammad (drums). Audio Mixer: John Acock.

Paris Reunion Band CD discography Jazz journalist Mike Hennessey was responsible for putting together the Paris Reunion Band, a group of jazz all-stars who spent at least part of their careers based in Paris. Their debut album, French Cooking, was a studio date recorded in the summer of 1985, around the time of their first European tour. The band includes saxophonists Johnny Griffin and Nathan Davis, trumpeters Woody Shaw and Dizzy Reece, trombonist Slide Hampton, pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Jimmy Woode, and drummer Billy Brooks. Most of the musicians made names for themselves while living in their U.S. homeland (except for Reece, a Jamaica native). Nathan Davis is probably the least familiar name in the front line, because he spent a long period in Paris (1962-1969) following his discharge from the U.S. Army, and eventually returned to his homeland to become a jazz educator. He is a triple threat on tenor and soprano saxes as well as flute. Each member of the brass and reed sections contributed a cooking original to the date, while the solos and ensemble work are consistently inspired. Though the personnel changed somewhat after this initial recording, the Paris Reunion Band would continue to work off and on until 1989. ~ Ken Dryden Recording information: Sonet Studios, Stockholm, Sweden (07/03/1985). Photographer: Maurice Bernaudon. Personnel: Nathan Davis (flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Johnny Griffin (tenor saxophone); Dizzy Reece, Woody Shaw (trumpet); Slide Hampton (trombone); Kenny Drew (piano); Billy Brooks (drums). Liner Note Author: Mike Hennessey.