Franco Saint De Bakker

Live At The Ancient Belgique Iii

The seven-piece terror jazz-combo -sounding sweeter than ever, though- once again recorded everything live at AB in September 2009. The group initially concentrated on re-working jazz compositions by Charlie Parker, Sonny Clark, Mal Waldron a.o. After three albums, things seem to have changed. Apart from "Song Of The Universe", composed in the sixties by the rather obscure organ player Baby-Face Willette, most of the album consists of original compositions. The result is surprisingly cheerful. Jazz is still the main root of the band, which we can hear clearly in "Leila", a kind of tribute to Ornette Coleman/James Blood Ulmer. The rest of the tunes keep a lot of the improvisational aspect of jazz in mind, but are also influenced by African pop music, folk, 60s soundtracks (e.g. John Barry), etc. After making their own version of "No One Knows" (Queens Of The Stone Age) and "Blue Monday" (New Order), the new cd has another all-time favourite to become a Franco-classic: Richard Berrys "Louie Louie"! Meanwhile the personnel line-up of Franco is more impressive than ever with a.o. founding member Elko Blijweert (Wim Vandekeybus, Tip Toe Topic, The Rudy Trouv Septet, ex-Kiss My Jazz,.), Karel De Backer (Novastar, ex-Dead Man Ray, .), Joris Caluwaerts (ex-Zita Swoon, The Go Find) and Rudy Trouv as special guest composer/musician.

Price
€ 15.00
Genre
Format
CD - 1 disk
Release date
04-03-2010
Label
Item-nr
471357
EAN
5412690052705
Availability
In stock
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. I AM THE WALRUS
2. I CAN SEE FOR MILES
3. CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME
4. IT DON'T MAKE SENSE (YOU CAN'T MAKE
5. I DON'T NEED A DOCTOR
6. ONE WAY OUT
7. A SALTY DOG
8. SUMMER IN THE CITY
9. MANIC DEPRESSION
10. TALKIN' ABOUT THE GOOD TIMES
11. LOCOMOTIVE BREATH
12. FIND THE COST OF FREEDOM
13. WISHING WELL
14. BLUE COLLAR MAN AT 2120