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December 2025 “Bucket's Got a Hole in It” Kid Thomas, 33rpm 10“, American Music 642, USA 1951.

Superb record, 33rpm 10” in translucent red vinyl, recorded at Hope Hall, Algiers, Louisiana USA, on September 3, 1951.

Fearuring Thomas Valentine (tp), Harrison Barnes (tb), Emile Barnes (cl), Geo. Guesnon (bj), Babe Philip (b), George Henderson (dms).

CEMJazz call number: jpd-33t-25cm-al1-6

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Jazz à Chevilly

15e Piano Jazz Mi-Nuit of Chevilly-Larue – Carte blanche to Hervé Sellin.

Mark Priore and Noé Huchard studied under Hervé Sellin in the Jazz and Improvised Music department of the Paris Conservatory (CNSMDP). Since then, they fly brilliantly on their own and represent the young hopes of tomorrow's jazz, in the broadest and most creative sense. This concert invites you to an exceptional gathering; featuring solo performances, duets, and trios, through repertoires as rich and inspiring as the American jazz standards, the music of Thelonious Monk, as well as that of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, without forgetting beautiful improvisations and original compositions. Authenticity, swing, and imagination guaranteed!

* Salle Léo Ferré - 65, Av. du Président F. Roosevelt – 94150 Chevilly-Larue.

First concert and membership: €23, subsequent concerts: €13, students and apprentices: €5, minors and job seekers are our guests.

Reservation required by email at jazzachevilly@free.fr

Bar and meals (reservation by email at jazzachevilly@free.fr before the Sunday evening preceding the concert).
Concert at 8:30 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m.

I love you Gershwin!.

* Théâtre de l'Abbaye, 10a Quai Beaubourg 94100 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

A dreamlike journey into the world of George… Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise. George Gershwin.

With Anne Carleton: vocals, Johan Renard: violin, Ludovic de Preissac: piano, Benoît Dunoyer de Segonzac: double bass.

Some images of the concert “Philippe Chagne Septet on Paul Vernon's arrangements”.

It was on November 28, 2025, in Chevilly-Larue.

Hot Club de Rennes, Four Pyral recordings (probably 1947)

These two miraculously well-preserved 12” direct-cut 78rpm records (“Pyral”) feature four titles performed by the Hot Club de Rennes orchestra: Basin Street Blues, Exactly Like You, Black Bottom Stomp, and Royal Garden Blues

The orchestra, active between 1941 and 1952, included: Alain Gastinel (as, cl), Jean Le Méné (ts), Marcel Lambot (tp), Emile Robert (tb), Armand Borgogno (p), Georges Ollive (g), Yves Gastinel (b), Benny Bennet or Robert Mommarché (dms).

These sides were probably cut during the sessions for the Pacific label in 1947. These recordings (seven 78rpm records) were reissued in 2021 by the 3615 Records label. Note: Royal Garden Blues is not part of the Pacific recordings, the other three titles are different versions.

To listen to in the section Ciel mes Pyrals!.

CEMJazz call number: obr-78t-spe-2-7 and 8

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In the footsteps of Krikor Kélékian, pioneer of the Great Jazz Orchestras in France

A biography by Philippe Tijou

[…] Longtemps ignoré par la presse et la littérature jazzistique, Grégor méritait d’être enfin réhabilité. C’est l’ambition que s’est fixée l’auteur de cette biographie qui entend lui rendre la place qu’il mérite pour sa contribution au développement du Jazz en France […]

In French, the A4-format book has 408 pages, over 300 illustrations, a discography, a filmography and an index of names mentioned.

Price: 31 € + postage (colissimo France & UE)
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