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Quire ~ Blue Rondo à la Turk (Paris, 1975) Christiane Legrand, Claudine Meunier, José Germain, Michel Barouille (voc), Guy Pedersen (b), Daniel Humair (dr)

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk live in Paris at the Blue Note Jazz Club in 1963, featuring swiss pianist George Gruntz, Guy Pedersen on bass & Daniel Humair on drums.

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François JEANNEAU

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(LP. Owl rcds. [test press.]. 1977) [FR]

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PERCEPTION, Live At The Stadium

Sept ans d'activité effervescente : peu d'ensembles de free jazz peuvent s'enorgueillir d'une telle longévité, surtout avec un personnel aussi stable que celui de Perception. Certes la formation invita quelques musiciens, dont Kent Carter et Jean-Charles Capon, le temps du deuxième opus… Certes la "difficulté d'être" de Siegfried Kessler généra un remplacement temporaire par Manuel Villaroel… Mais pour l'essentiel, c'est le noyau dur à quatre du premier album qui arpenta l'Europe, au gré des concerts, de la Belgique à l'Allemagne et passant par la Norvège, où Perception représenta la France au festival de Molde.

Peu de changements de personnel donc, si ce n'est à la fin, en 1975, une fois le troisième disque finalisé, après le départ du batteur Jean-My Truong qu'il fallut bien remplacer. D'abord par Mino Cinelu, alors dans Opération Rhino et Moravagine, puis par Jacques Thollot, déjà auteur des cultes Jeter la girafe à la mer et Watch Devil Go. Des changements qui n'entamèrent pas l'esprit de Perception, tant l'un comme l'autre surent s'intégrer à un ensemble à l'identité pourtant très forte.

Du passage de Jacques Thollot, aucun disque jusqu'à Live At The Stadium témoignait. Aussi cet enregistrement en public datant de 1977 constitue-t-il une archive précieuse, reflet de recherches toujours aussi singulières et contrastées bien qu'entreprises depuis 1970, dans le sillon du séminal Our Meanings And Our Feelings de Michel Portal. Archive accréditant ce qu'on savait déjà, à savoir que rares furent alors, en Europe, les quartettes à culminer à un tel niveau, en dehors de celui que formaient quasi au même moment, de manière occasionnelle toutefois, Gerd Dudek, Joachim Kühn, Peter Warren et Daniel Humair.

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Seven years of effervescent activity: few free jazz groups can be proud of such longevity, especially with a line-up as stable as that of Perception. Yes, there would be several guest musicians, including Kent Carter and Jean-Charles Capon, on the second album… Yes the "existential problems" of Siegfried Kessler would necessitate him being temporarily replaced by Manuel Villaroel… But for the most part, it was the core quartet of the first album which would tour Europe, through concerts from Belgium to Germany and including Norway where Perception represented France at the Molde festival.

So, few personnel changes then, until towards the end, in 1975, after completing the third album, when drummer Jean-My Truong left and had to be replaced. First by Mino Cinelu, at the time in Opération Rhino and Moravagine, then by Jacques Thollot, already behind the cult albums Jeter la girafe à la mer and Watch Devil Go. These changes did not alter the spirit of Perception, as both were able to integrate a group which nevertheless had such a strong identity.

There was no recorded trace of Jacques Thollot’s time in the group, until Live At The Stadium came to the rescue. So, this live recording from 1977 is a precious archive, displaying unique and contrasting directions which had first begun to be explored in 1970, following the seminal Our Meanings And Our Feelings by Michel Portal. An archive then, which proves what we already knew, that there were few quartets in Europe at the time capable of reaching such a level, other than that formed on an occasional basis, around the same period, by Gerd Dudek, Joachim Kühn, Peter Warren and Daniel Humair.

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Phil Woods and the European Rhythm Machine

Phil Woods and the European Rhythm Machine (1968-72) with George Gruntz (later Gordon Beck), Henri Texier and Daniel Humair was an exciting quartet that put Phil back on the jazz map. Three of their five albums were issued in the U.S. Steven Cerra has assembled an exhaustive history of the band on his Jazz Profiles. I remember one of Phil’s favorite stories was rushing out of the hotel into a taxi somewhere in Germany to make a gig. The cab driver asked Gordon Beck where he was from (London). The driver replied “Ah, I know your city well……from the air.”

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Daniel Humair, French drummer in Forestière.

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Sam Szafran Une des pistes du disque Modern Art Daniel Humair (dms), Vincent Lê Quang (ts, ss), Stéphane Kérecki (b).