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The package contains a CD-sized booklet (appr. 50 pages), Cinq Temps Pour Paul Desmond (Five For Paul Desmond) by Paul Benkimoun (in English and French). This was originally published in a limited edition (300 copies) for Les Autodidactes, with illustrations by Loustal. There is also a selected Discography.
Disc #1 - Desmond Blue (with strings)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Jim Hall/Guitar
Albert Richman & Tony Miranda/French Horn
George Marge, Robert Doty, Stan Webb, Phil Bodner, Romeo Penque/Woodwinds
Gene Bianco, Gloria Agostini/Harp
Gene Cherico, Milt Hinton/Bass
Connie Kay, Robert Thomas, Osie Johnson/Drums & Percussion
Strings arranged by Bob Prince
Recording engineer: Ray Hall
Disc #2 - Two Of A Mind (with Gerry Mulligan)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Gerry Mulligan/Bari Sax
John Beal/Bass (4)
Wendell Marshall/Bass (1,2)
Joe Benjamin/Bass (3,5,6)
Connie Kay/Drums (1,2,4)
Mel Lewis/Drums (3,5,6)
Produced by Bob Prince and George Avakian
Disc #3 - Take Ten (with Jim Hall)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Jim Hall/Guitar
Gene Cherico/Bass (2-11)
Gene Wright/Bass (1)
Connie Kay/Drums
Produced by George Avakian
Disc #4 - Glad To Be Unhappy (with Jim Hall)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Jim Hall/Guitar
Gene Cherico/Bass (3)
Gene Wright/Bass (1,2,4-8)
Connie Kay/Drums
Produced by George Avakian
Disc #5 - Bossa Antigua (featuring Jim Hall)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Jim Hall/Guitar
Gene Wright/Bass
Connie Kay/Drums
Produced by George Avakian
Disc #6 - Easy Living (with Jim Hall)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Jim Hall/Guitar
Eugene Wright/Bass (1,2,4,6,9,11)
Eugene Cherico/Bass (3,10)
Percy Heath/Bass (5,7,8)
Connie Kay/Drums
Produced by George Avakian
Disc #7 - All Across The City (featuring Jim Hall)
Paul Desmond/Alto Sax
Jim Hall/Guitar
Eugene Wright/Bass
Connie Kay/Drums
Produced by George Avakian
This seven-CD set is not to be confused with the later, similarly titled five-disc set from RCA devoted to Paul Desmond's work on the label with Jim Hall, nor with the early Mosaic set. Packaged as seven separate CDs (one of which contains only a pair of previously unissued outtakes, "By the River Saint Marie" and "All Across the City") in jewel cases in a slipcase with a booklet, it's a fuller account of Desmond's output during the period covered, principally because it includes Two of a Mind, his 1962 collaboration with Gerry Mulligan, which fell outside the scope of the later five-disc box. Otherwise, the sound is impeccable, the notes (which appear in English and French) are informative, and the set -- if not quite as conveniently designed as the later one -- is well worth owning for fans.
---Bruce Eder, allmusic |
