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01. Michel Roques - Le Temps
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02. Michel Roques - Le Vent
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03. Michel Roques - Monsieur Chimpanzé
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04. Michel Roques - Les Petits Enfants Morts
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05. Michel Roques - Le Cri
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06. Michel Roques - Jazz
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ARTIST
ROQUES, MICHEL
TITLE
Chorus
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SOUFFLE CONTINU RECORDS
CATALOG #
FFL 048LP
FFL 048LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
4/19/2019
Souffle Continu Records present the first every vinyl reissue of
Michel Roques
's
Chorus
, originally released in 1972. Although his albums are full of the same qualities as those of many other star saxophonists/flutists playing spiritual jazz, Frenchman Michel Roques is often classed as a "supporting artist" or a "musicians' musician", forever in the background, and often left out of the reference books. Adding to this lack of recognition is the fact that Michel Roques was seriously under-recorded: five albums as leader in a career of almost twenty years does not amount to much! Thankfully, in 1972,
Pierre Barouh
, boss of Saravah, records made up for the injustice by offering him the opportunity to record
Chorus
in studio, providing a continuity with the equally brilliant
Safari
made four years earlier (1969). An ambitious work,
Chorus
owes much to the unusual "augmented" rhythm section, the inner structure of which is none other than that used in the Parisian trio of pianist
Mal Waldron
at the end of the 1960s: namely
Patrice Caratini
on bass (completed by the cello of the amazing
Jean-Charles Capon
) and
Franco Manzecchi
on drums (seconded by the percussion of
Humberto Canto
). Another notable singularity is that Michel Roques had the excellent idea of excluding the piano, traditionally employed in this kind of context. This didn't prevent
Chorus
from being played on French TV in 1973 with a piano replacing the cello, and a different voice reciting the beat-style poems of
Nicole Roques
, that of actor
Jacques Degor
, occasional collaborator with
Jef Gilson
, but far less convincing than
Bachir Touré
, wisely chosen for this recording for his style inherited from Afro-American preachers and capable of holding his own with the wild improvisations. In its own way,
Chorus
is one of the key albums mixing free jazz and spoken word "à la française". It is also a militant concept album which has lost nothing of its political force. Licensed from Saravah. Gatefold sleeve; obi strip; Edition of 500.
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