Jean-Luc Barbier
Dans La Ville Blanche
Bridge Records (France) 1983
B-1001 (LP)
sleeve : EX(slightly color-faded.)
media : EX-/EX-(some slightly surface noises. some wear that does not affect to sounds.)
This was introduced in the 1st. edition of the guidebook "obscure sound". An outstanding leader album by Swiss jazz saxophonist Jean-Luc Barbier, released in 1983, featuring a quartet of Christoph Baumann (piano), Hami Hammerli (b), and Guido Parini (dr). The album is a straight-ahead jazz album, ranging from modal to swing, but with an organic spirituality similar to that of Paroah Sanders' famous album "Thembi". There is a beautiful deep jazz track B2 with drums and acoustic piano lapping like waves and flute playing a nostalgic melody, and B3 with a light opening full of tropical flavor and earthy flute that develops into an exotic spiritual jazz track. Please take a listen to them.
B2: Valse Pour TitiB3: One for Harkin