On November 12, 1957, drummer Kenny Clarke was in a recording studio in Paris recording Kenny Clarke Plays Christian Chevallier for French Columbia. His band included composer-arranger Christian Chevallier, Ack van Rooyen (tp), Nat Peck (tb), Hubert Fol and Jean Aldegon (as), Georges Grenu (ts), Armand Migiani (bar), Maurice Vander (p) and Pierre Michelot (b).
They were there to record a tricky Chevallier tune called Black Knight. Here it is...
Fortunately, a French TV crew was in the studio filming for broadcast. I stumbled across this clip last week from the recording session and worked backward to figure out the details. Go here...
Clearly not an easy song to play, with all the hard stops and starts. Somewhere, I suspect, there's an entire clip of the Black Knight session.
They were there to record a tricky Chevallier tune called Black Knight. Here it is...
Fortunately, a French TV crew was in the studio filming for broadcast. I stumbled across this clip last week from the recording session and worked backward to figure out the details. Go here...
Clearly not an easy song to play, with all the hard stops and starts. Somewhere, I suspect, there's an entire clip of the Black Knight session.
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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