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Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin (CD)

By: Serge Gainsbourg (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin (CD) Album By Serge Gainsbourg (Artist)
1   Angoisse - (TRUE instrumental)
2   Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
3   Requiem Pour Un Twisteur
4   Chez Les Ye-Ye
5   Black March - (TRUE instrumental)
6   Black Trombone
7   Ce Mortel Ennui
8   Generique - (TRUE instrumental)
9   Coco And Co
10   Intoxicated Man
11   Elaeudanla Teiteia
12   Le Talkie Walkie
13   Some Small Chance - (TRUE instrumental)
14   Quand Tu T'y Mets
15   La Fille Au Rasoir
16   Quand Mon 6.35 Me Fait Les Yeux Doux
17   Fugue - (TRUE instrumental)
18   Machins Choses
19   Negative Blues
20   Wake Me At Five - (TRUE instrumental)
 
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Review

Rolling Stone (3/6/97, p.70) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...collects the brightly toned French pop jazz that Gainsbourg's often great bands and arrangers brought off with national fervor..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/14/97, p.63) - "...a distinctive song stylist whose eclectic wanderings made him a national treasure in his native France, and a dissolute demi-god to the alternative-rock community....[DU JAZZ] chronicle[s]...Gainsbourg's lounge-jazz...excursions to eye-opening, often hilarious effect." - Rating: B+
Q (12/96, p.166) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...there's enough evidence...to prove the crow-visaged nihilist could swing--albeit mordantly..."

Title Note

Recorded between 1958 and 1969.

Serge Gainsbourg was one of the true characters of the 20th century, a prolific poet, cabaret singer, and songwriter. Gainsbourg was also a first class lecher, drinker and source of controversy wherever he went, with a habit of making records in a dizzying variety of styles.

When Gainsbourg began his prolific recording career in the late 1950's, he was lumped in with the wave of cynical chanson singers who dominated France during the reconstruction following World War Two. However, his love of African-American musical styles, in particular jazz, set him apart from his more conservative colleagues. DU JAZZ DANS LE RAVIN is a compilation of Gainsbourg's experiments in jazz. (At the same time he was also experimenting with traditional song styles, pop, calypso, and mambo.) His version of jazz, while heavenly influenced by heroes such as Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday, is at times similar to a French version of beatnik tone poems, especially in the title track and "Le Talkie-Walkie." Although he has a limited vocal range, Gainsbourg also manages a wounded Chet Baker imitation on tearjearkers such as "Black Trombone." DU JAZZ DANS LE RAVIN is an excellent Gainsbourg primer.

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