Pot-Luck-Humor - Paris Reunion Band (Three Albums)

 

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

Paris Reunion Band - French Cooking [1985]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xkz9h0

 

THE Paris Reunion Band, an eight-piece ensemble made up of American jazz musicians who now live in Europe, primarily in Paris, or who once lived in Paris for an extended period, began a brief existence as a group on Tuesday evening at the Blue Note, 131 West Third Street. It is playing there through Sunday with the Roy Haynes Quartet in a salute to the late drummer Kenny Clark, a longtime resident of Paris.

 

After the Blue Note, the band went on to play a week of one-nighters, ending on June 30 at the Montreal Jazz Festival, where it disbanded. This is unfortunate because the group, even on its first night together at the Blue Note, had the polish, the accomplished ease and a depth in repertory that usually come after much more experience working as a unit.

Paris Reunion Band - Ludwigsburg [1986] (bootleg)

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wr3dj3

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2icz99

 

Paris Reunion Band - Hot Licks [1987]

part1

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ugc6gt

part2

http://www.sendspace.com/file/qic59u

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