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Bobby Jaspar - Early Years · From \'Be-Bop\' to \'Cool\' 1947-1951 (CD) For Sale

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Bobby JasparEarly Years · From \'Be-Bop\' to \'Cool\' 1947-1951 Featuring The Bob ShotsFormatCDLabelFresh Sound RecordsCatalogue no.FSRCD 977Barcode8427328609777ConditionBrand new, factory sealedTrack Listing01. Oop Bop Sh\' Bam (Dizzy Gillespie) 2:30
02. Moonlight in Vermont (Karl Suessdorf / John Blackburn) 2:52
03. Anthropology (Karl Suessdorf / John Blackburn) 5:06
04. Thelonious (Thelonious Monk) 1:33
05. Our Delight (Tadd Dameron) 2:46
06. Embraceable You (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin) 1:54
07. Wee-Dot (J.J. Johnson / Leo Parker) 2:35
08. I Can’t Get Started (Ira Gershwin / Vernon Duke) 2:38
09. When I Grow Too Old to Dream (Oscar Hammerstein II / Sigmund Romberg) 2:35
10. Relaxin\' at Camarillo (Charlie Parker) 2:55
11. Jack the Hipster (Jack Sels) 2:35
12. That’s My Desire (Helmy Kresa / Carroll Loveday) 2:43
13. Boppin\' at the Doge (Francis Coppieters) 2:33
14. Embraceable You (2) (Ira Gershwin / George Gershwin) 2:51
15. Boppin\' for Haig (Bobby Jaspar) 1:57
16. Pastel Blue (Pierre Robert / Artie Shaw / Charlie Shavers) 2:40
17. Tenderly (Walter Gross / Jack Lawrence) 2:48
18. If I Had You (Ted Shapiro / Irving King) 2:17
19. Bobby’s Beep (Bobby Jaspar) 2:53
20. How About You (Bobby Jaspar) 3:02
21. Don\'t Be That Way (Edgar Sampson / Benny Goodman / Mitchell Parish) 3:18
22. I’ve Found a New Baby (Clarence Williams / James P. Johnson) 2:11
23. Ain\'t Misbehavin\' (Thomas Fats Waller / Harry Brooks) 3:07
24. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (Ted Persons / Mercer Ellington) 3:01
25. Body and Soul (Frank Eyton / Robert B. Sour / Johnny Green / Edward Heyman) 3:39 Total time: 68:59 min.Album Information

This CD includes the early steps of Bobby Jaspar as a jazz musician, when he started on clarinet and then tenor saxophone, as he formed the young award-winning Belgian band they called “Bob Shots” —the first in Europe to play “be-bop” back in 1947 under the guidance of Jaspar\'s influence, Don Byas. One year later he met Lucky Thompson onstage in an enriching experience, and he became his new inspiration. These two encounters helped Bobby grow musically in a way that would make him a success everywhere, a blend of styles that was a compromise between the turbulence of Thompson, Lester Young, Eddie \'Lockjaw\' Davis, etc., and the rhapsodic style of Byas and Hawkins.Already as a professional in Paris in 1950, he adopted the new “cool” sound, influenced at the beginning by Warne Marsh and then later by his new aesthetic referent Stan Getz. “A pure sonority, like that of Getz, is preferable to an abortive imitation of the black sound,” Jaspar said. Jazz-Hot’s Lucien Malson said of Jaspar that he was “one of the few tenors in Europe who could compare to any of the white American tenor saxophonists and come out on top.”Although the sound quality of these recordings is generally acceptable, it has issues at times and we haven’t been able to clean the original source as well as we would have liked. That said, they are still an exceptional document that not only puts in value the unforgettable Bobby Jaspar, but also reminds us of the origins of the best jazz generation to emerge from Belgium.—Jordi Pujol

Album Details(*) Bonus Tracks

Sources:
Tracks #1 & 2: 78 rpm Olympia 5302
Track #3: Private tape
Tracks #4-10: Private paper tape
Tracks #11 & 12: 78 rpm Pacific 2323
Tracks #13 & 14: 78 rpm Pacific 2325
Tracks #15 & 16: 78 rpm Pacific 2326
Track #17: 78 rpm Saturne 3005
Track #18: 78 rpm Saturne 3006
Tracks #19 & 20: 78 rpm Vogue 5097
Tracks #21 & 22: 78 rpm Continental Acetate
Tracks #23 & 24: 78 rpm Liège Experimental Acetate
Track #25: Private paper tape

Personnel:
Tracks #1-2: THE BOB SHOTS
Jean Bourguignon, trumpet; Bobby Jaspar, clarinet & tenor sax; Jacques Pelzer, alto sax; Jean-Marie Vandresse, piano; Pierre Robert, guitar; Charles Libon, bass; André Putsage, drums.
Recorded in Brussels, February 10, 1947

Track #3: JEAN LECLÈRE / BOB SHOTS ORCHESTRA
Herman Sandy, trumpet; Bobby Jaspar, tenor sax; Jacques Pelzer, alto sax; Jean Leclère, piano; Fats Sadi, vibes; Pierre Robert, guitar; Vic Geets, bass; Geo Steene, drums.
Recorded at the Festival de Jazz de Nice, February 1948

Tracks #4-10: THE BOB SHOTS
Jean Bourguignon, trumpet; Bobby Jaspar, tenor sax; Jacques Pelzer, alto sax; Jean-Marie Vandresse, piano; Pierre Robert, guitar, vocals (#4); Georges Leclercq, bass; André Putsage, drums.
Recorded in Liège, July 1948

Tracks #11-16: THE BOB SHOTS
Jean Bourguignon, trumpet; Bobby Jaspar, tenor sax; Jacques Pelzer, alto sax; Pierre Robert, guitar; Francy Boland, piano; Fats Sadi, vibes, vocals (#12 & 14); Georges Leclercq, bass; John Ward, drums.
Recorded in Paris, May 16-17, 1949

Tracks #17-20: BOBBY JASPAR QUARTET
Bobby Jaspar, tenor sax; Henri Renaud, piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Pierre Lemarchand, drums.
Recorded in Paris, May 5 and November 1951

Tracks #21-22: ORCHESTRE DU COSMOPOLITE
Bobby Jaspar, clarinet; Vicky Thunus, piano (#21); Oscar Arvedson, guitar (#21); Paul Dubois, bass, piano (22); Jean-Pierre Ackermans, drums.
Recorded in Brussels, Hôtel Cosmopolite, January 1945 (Acetate Continental)

Tracks #23-24: THE BOB SHOTS
Armand Bilak, trumpet; Bobby Jaspar, clarinet & tenor sax; Jacques Pelzer, alto sax; Fats Sadi, piano & vocals (#23); Pierre Robert, guitar; Charles Libon, bass; André Putsage, drums.
Recorded in the Liège Expérimental Studio, Liège 1946

Track #25: BOBBY JASPAR QUARTET
Bobby Jaspar, tenor sax; René Thomas, guitar; Fats Sadi, vibes; Georges Leclercq, bass.
Recorded in Liège 1948

Special thanks to Jean-Pol Schroeder and the Maison du Jazz de Liège
for their help in making this project possible
Remastered by Marc Doutrepont
Produced for CD release by Jordi Pujol
© 2019 by Fresh Sound Records

Mono · 24-Bit Digitally Remastered
Blue Moon Producciones Discograficas, S.L.

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Bobby Jaspar - Early Years · From \'Be-Bop\' to \'Cool\' 1947-1951 (CD) For Sale

Bobby Jaspar - Early Years · From \'Be-Bop\' to \'Cool\' 1947-1951 (CD): $19.99

Bobby Jaspar - Early Years · From \'Be-Bop\' to \'Cool\' 1947-1951 (CD):
$19.99