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01. Boillat Therace Quintet Featuring Benny Bailey - Prompt
02. Boillat Therace Quintet Featuring Benny Bailey - Gibraltar
03. Boillat Therace Quintet Featuring Benny Bailey - Blue Bossa
04. Boillat Therace Quintet Featuring Benny Bailey - Le Colin
05. Boillat Therace Quintet Featuring Benny Bailey - My Greatest Love
06. Boillat Therace Quintet Featuring Benny Bailey - Gemini
ARTIST
TITLE
My Greatest Love
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
WRJ 007CD WRJ 007CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/31/2020

We Release Jazz present a reissue from Geneva's Boillat Thérace Quintet, the My Greatest Love album, featuring bebop and hard-bop legend Benny Bailey and available for the first time since 1975. Galvanized by the creation of the Montreux Jazz Festival in the late '60s and lively local scenes, jazz music was healthy and booming in Switzerland in the 1970s. One band that beautifully captured this energy was Jean-François Boillat and Raymond Thérace's Boillat Thérace Quintet whose self-titled debut (WRJ 006CD/LTD-LP) and impressive Montreux appearance set the tone for quality Helvetic jazz in 1974. Following this first excellent impression, the Boillat-Thérace ensemble connected with American trumpeter Benny Bailey and recorded the magnificent My Greatest Love in May and June of 1975. The modal, hard bop, and soul-jazz gem includes first-class takes on Freddie Hubbard's "Gibraltar", Kenny Dorham's "Blue Bossa", and Jimmy Heath's "Gemini", plus deliciously funky originals from the Geneva crew, including the upbeat "Le Colin" and the swaying fan-favorite "Prompt" and it's thrilling solos. Bailey is on trumpet and flugelhorn, Boillat on Fender Rhodes and piano, Thérace on saxophone and flute, Roger Vaucher on Fender bass, Eric Wespi on drums, and Rogelio Garcia on percussion and tenor saxophone -- heavy sessions and deep vibes. This is reissued in conjunction with Boillat Thérace Quintet's self-titled debut album from 1974 (WRJ 006CD/LTD-LP). Swiss jazz bliss!