Stéphan Oliva, Bruno Chevillon, Paul Motian - Intérieur Nuit

Stéphan Oliva (p), Bruno Chevillon (b), Paul Motian (d)

barabara sounds sez:

Brilliant French piano trio recorded live in 2001 and issued that same year. Paul Motian shouldn't need any introduction; the other two are right up there on the same level. I don't speak/read a lot of French, but here are a couple of reviews with bits I do understand...

citizenjazz sez:

Oliva est un immense pianiste... Un très grand disque.

amazon.fr sez :

À la fois très abstraite, très physique et très chantante, la musique de ce trio accorde une importance au geste qui préside à l'émergence du son... Par-delà l'Atlantique et le soi-disant fossé des générations, l'empathie et l'écoute mutuelle qui unissent les deux Français et le batteur américain (qui pourrait être leur père) est en effet une source de rare ravissement.

Nathan Davis Sextet - Peace Treaty

barabara sounds sez:

The Nathan Davis Sextet from 1965, recorded in Paris with Woody Shaw on trumpet and issued on the SFP label. It's a classic — the man himself says so:

"The idea of naming the album "Peace Treaty" arose from the various meetings held between American and North Vietnam in Paris in an attempt to negotiate a cease fire and peace treaty during the Vietnamese Conflict.

It was during this period that I dedicated a lot of tunes that i was composing to the idea of peace, love and non-violence. When Claude Lenissois first approached me to do an album, he suggested that we record at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees because they had a good track record of producing good sound.

Everything fell into place because i was working steady with Kenny Clarke, René Urtreger, Jimmy Gourley Woody Shaw and Jean-Louis Chautemps on a regular basis at the 'Blue Note'. So we all had to do was fly Jimmy Woode in from Germany where he was living at the time.

Donald Byrd was also living in Paris and occasionally played with us at the Blue Note, so he came in and helped produce the record.

Time has proven it to be a classic."

Nathan T. Davis, Jan. 2007 — from the liner notes for the reissue CD

Nathan Davis - tenor & soprano sax

Woody Shaw - trumpet

Jean-Louis Chautemps - baritone sax

René Urtreger - piano

Jimmy Woode - bass

Kenny Clarke - drums

Jimmy Gourley - guitar