Jazz In Paris

Uma das coleções de jazz mais interessantes e arrojadas que conheço é Jazz in Paris, lançada em 2002 pela Verve/Universal/Gitanes. Trata-se de um box gigante, com 75 cd’s e livreto, cobrindo um vasto período do jazz feito na França, especialmente em Paris, desde 1917 até 1972. Além desses 75 cd’s, posteriormente foram lançados individualmente outros 37 cd’s simples, 3 cd’s duplos, 4 cd’s triplos, um DVD e alguns outros itens associados à coleção original. Entre os músicos apresentados, você encontra mestres como Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Buck Clayton, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Chet Baker e muitos outros, inclusive vários músicos europeus. Até onde sei, a coleção completa está fora de catálogo, mas ainda podem ser encontrados alguns cd’s aqui e ali, na faixa de 14 dólares cada um. Há também um único exemplar do box original na Amazon, com 75 cd’s, por módicos 580 dólares, mais frete. O e-mule disponibiliza alguns desses cd’s, a preços bem mais convidativos. Para os amigos navegantes, deixo a relação completa dos cd’s já lançados e a faixa Blues On The Champs-Elysées, do Vol. 101: Jazz at Midnight, com Joe Newman (t), Frank Wess (ts), Bill Graham (bs), Henry Coker (tb), Maurice Vander (p), Eddie Jones (b) e Sonny Payne (d), gravada em 1956.

001 Louis Armstrong:
- The Best Live Concert Vol. 1
002 Louis Armstrong:
- The Best Live Concert Vol. 2
003 Miles Davis:
- Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud
004 Donald Byrd:
- Byrd in Paris (live)
005 Donald Byrd:
- Parisian Thoroughfare (live)
006 Buck Clayton/Peanuts Holland/Charlie Singleton:
- Club Session
007 Bill Coleman:
- From Boogie to Funk
008 Chet Baker:
- Broken Wing
009 Dizzy Gillespie:
- The Giant
010 Slide Hampton:
- Exodus

011 Django Reinhard:
- Django et Compagnie
012 Django Reinhard:
- Swing from Paris
013 Django Reinhard:
- Swing 39
014 Mary Lou Williams:
- I Made You Love Paris
015 Elek Bacsik:
- Guitar Conceptions
016 René Thomas:
- The Real Cat
017 Toots Thielemans:
- Blues pour Flirter
018 Buddy Banks /Bobby Jaspar
- Jazz de Chambre
- Quartet Barclay
019 Les Blue Stars/Henri Salvador
- Pardon My English
- Plays the Blues
020 Harold Nicholas/June Richmond/Andy Bey
- Chanteurs-Chanteuses

021 Don Byas:
- Laura
022 Sidney Bechet/Claude Luter
- Self-Titled
023 Sonny Criss
- Mr. Blues pour Flirter
024 Guy Lafitte
- Blue and Sentimental
025 Henri Renaud
- New sound at 'The Boeuf sur le Toit' (live)
Zoot Sims:
- Quintet Barclay
026 Barney Wilen:
- Jazz sur Seine
027 Bobby Jaspar:
- Modern Jazz au Club Saint Germain
028 Lucky Thompson:
- Modern Jazz Group
029 Pierre Michelot:
- Round about a Bass
030 Oscar Peterson ft. Stéphane Grappelli:
- Volume 1

031 Oscar Peterson ft. Stéphane Grappelli:
- Volume 2
032 Michel Legrand:
- Paris Jazz Piano
033 Claude Bolling:
- Plays the Original Piano Greats
034 Rhoda Scott/Kenny Clarke
- Self Titled
035 Eddie Louiss:
- Bohemia after Dark
036 Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Aux Trios Mailletz
037 Sammy Price/Lucky Thompson
- Paris Blues (live)
038 Earl Hines:
- Paris One Night Stand
039 Kenny Clarke:
- Plays André Hodéir
040 Art Blakey
- Paris Jam Session (live)

041 Eddie Louiss/Yvan Julien
- Porgy & Bess
042 Stéphane Grappelli:
- Improvisations
043 Jean-Luc Ponty:
- Jazz Long Playing
044 Lionel Hampton and his French New Sound:
- Vol. 1 (live)
045 Lionel Hampton and his French New Sound
- Vol. 2 (live)
046 Lionel Hampton:
- Ring dem Vibes
047 Various (Albert Nicholas/Jimmy Archey/Michel Attenoux)
- Classic Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés
048 Various (Bernard Peiffer/Bernard Zacharias)
- Modern Jazz à Saint-Germain-des-Prés
049 Barney Wilen/Alain Goraguer
- Jazz & Cinéma Vol. 1
050 Art Blakey/JatP/George Arvanitas
- Jazz & Cinéma Vol. 2

051 Louis Armstrong:
- And Friends
052 Dizzy Gillespie
- Cognac Blues
053 Chet Baker
- Quartet Plays Standards
054 Hubert Rostaing/Maurice Meunier
- Clarinettes à Saint-Germain-des-Prés
055 Hubert Fol/Michel de Villers/Sonny Criss
- Saxophones à Saint-Germain-des-Prés
056 Stéphane Grappelli
- Plays Cole Porter
057 René Thomas
- Meeting Mister Thomas
058 Django Reinhardt
- Swing 48
059 Django Reinhardt
- Django's Blues
060 Henri Crolla
- Notre Ami Django

061 Art Simmons/Ronnell Bright
- Piano aux Champs-Elysées
062 Lou Bennett
- Pentecostal Feeling
063 Rhoda Scott
- Live at the Olympia (live)
064 Willie « The Lion » Smith
- Music on My Mind
065 Bernard Pfeiffer
- La Vie en Rose
066 Raymond Fol
- Les 4 Saisons
067 René Urtréger
- Joue Bud Powell
068 Lionel Hampton
- Mai 1956
069 Art Blakey
- 1958 Paris Olympia (live)
070 Le Jazz Groupe de Paris
- Joue André Hodeir

071 Gainsbourg & Goaraguer/Hodeir/Humair Soultette
- Jazz & Cinéma Vol. 3
072 Don Byas/Tyree Glenn/Howard McGhee sextet/James Moody Quintet
- Bebop
073 Lucky Thompson
- With Dave Pochonet All Stars
074 Alain Goraguer
- Go-Go-Goraguer
075 Earl Hines
- In Paris
076 Michel de Villers/Claude Bolling
- Danse à Saint-Germain-des-Prés
077 Lester Young
- Le dernier message
078 Don Byas
- En ce Temps-Là
079 Stan Getz Quartet
- In Paris (live)
080 Henri Criolla
- Begin the Beguine

081 Elek Bacsik
- Nuages
082 Stéphane Grappelli/Stuff Smith
- Stuff and Steff
083 Sarah Vaughan
- Vaughan & Violins
084 Dizzy Gillespie
- Dizzy Gillespie & his Operatic Strings Orchestra
085 Bobby Jaspar
- Jeux de Quartes
086 Gerard Badini
- The Swing Machine
087 Stéphane Grappelli
- Django
088 Gus Viseur
- De Clinchy à Broadway
089 Henri Crolla
- Quand Refleuriront les Lilas Blancs?
090 Django Reinhard
- Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés

091 Django Reinhard
- Nuages
092 Jack Diéval
- Jazz au Champs-Elysées
093 Bernard Pfeiffer
- Plays Standards
094 Blossom Dearie/Les Blue Stars
- The Pianist
- Les Blue Stars
095 Sammy Price/Price & Doc Cheatham
- Play George Gershwin
096 Max Roach
- Parisian Sketches
097 André Hodeir
- Jazz et Jazz
098 Wetzel/Gorageur/de Villers/Solal
- Jazz & Cinéma Vol. 4
099 Wilson/Chittison/Polo Trio/Charlie Lewis
- Harlem Piano in Montmartre
100 Various:
- Jazz sous L'Occupation

101 Joe Newman/Cootie Williams
- Jazz at Midnight
102 Django Reinhardt
- Place de Brouckère

103 Buck Clayton (with Hal Singer)
- Buck Clayton and Friends
104 Kid Ory
- At the Théatre des Champs-Elysées
105 Sonny Stitt
- Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio
106 Guy Lafitte
- Blues
107 Stan Getz/Michel Legrand
- Communications '72
108 Sammy Price
- Good Paree
109 George Wein
- Midnight Concert at the Olympia
110 Raymond Fol
- Echoes of Harlem
111 Maurice Vander
- Piano Jazz
112 Henri Crolla/Hubert Rostang/André Hodeir
- Jazz et Cinéma Volume Vol. 5


Álbuns duplos:
001 Sacha Distel: Jazz Guitarist
002 Bill Coleman: The Complete Philips Recordings
003 Jean Claude Fohrenbach: Fohrenbach French Sound

Álbuns triplos:
001 Jazz in Paris: Champs-Elysées (1917-1949)
002 Jazz in Paris: Montmatre (1924-1939)
003 Jazz in Paris: Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1946 - 1956)
004 Jazz in Paris: Rive Gauche, Rive Droite (1956-1959)

Coletânea "Best of": publicada em 2006, contém 5 cd's com as 100 'melhores' faixas da coleção.

Outros itens:

001 10-in LP 'Cool Jazz A Saint-Germain des Prés'
(tracks by Armand Migiani and Michel de Villers).
Limited Edition Release, December 2005.
002 Jazz in Paris Remixed, DVD
003 Jazz in Paris: Sampler (980-691-8).
Includes catalog presenting issues 1-102 plus the Sacha Distel "out of series" reissue.