JOHN LEWIS & SACHA DISTE: AFTERNOON IN PARIS/ ANIMAL DANCE [NEW CD]

JOHN LEWIS & SACHA DISTE: AFTERNOON IN PARIS/  ANIMAL DANCE [NEW CD]

DOWNBEAT 4-STAR ALBUM !

This release presents the complete original 1956 LP Afternoon in Paris (Atlantic LP1267). Recorded in Paris, it is the only existing collaboration between John Lewis and French guitarist Sacha Distel, as well as with French saxophonist Barney Wilen. Also featured here are the also French Pierre Michelot (with whom Lewis only recorded one more date in Paris in 1950), two members of Lewis’ Modern Jazz Quartet, Percy Heath and Connie Kay, and one ex-member, Kenny Clarke, who was living in Paris at that time. The complete Lewis LP Animal Dance (Atlantic LP1402), which is Lewis’ only collaboration with another great European jazzman, German trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, has been added here as a bonus.

PERSONNEL:

JOHN LEWIS, piano
SACHA DISTEL, guitar
BARNEY WILEN, tenor sax
PIERRE MICHELOT, bass (on 1-3)
PERCY HEATH, bass (on 4-6)
CONNIE KAY, drums (on 1-3)
KENNY CLARKE, drums (on 4-6)

Recorded on Paris, France, December 4 (4-6) & December 7 (1-3), 1956.

*BONUS ALBUM (7-13): Animal Dance
JOHN LEWIS, piano
ALBERT MANGELSDORFF, trombone
KARL-THEODOR GEIER, bass
SILVIJE GLOJNARIC, drums
Baden-Baden, Germany, July 30, 1962.

TRACK LISTING:

01. I Cover The Waterfront
02. Dear Old Stockholm
03. Afternoon In Paris
04. All The Things You Are
05. Bags’ Groove
06. Willow Weep For Me
07. Animal Dance
08. Autumn Leaves
09. Set ‘Em Up
10. Monday In Milan
11. The Sheriff
12. Why Are You Blue?
13. Ornaments