Two Beat Mozart - Claude Bolling

Andante And Variations - 1, 2, 3, 6 from Sonata No. 11

Two Beat Mozart
The Claude Bolling Sextext
Arranged by Claude Bolling
Philips PHS 600-204
1966

From the back cover: The Claude Bolling Sextext has been part of the jazz life in France longer than he likes to remember. Bolling, a pianist whom veteran critic Hugues Panassie has compared favorably to Earl Hines, organized his own band in 1946, when he was 16 years old! He toured France with Mezz Mezzow in the early 1950s. He has played with most of the American musicians who have passed through Paris. His training, at Nice and in Paris, was sound and rooted in the classics.

He alone arranged all of the pieces in the album, except Eline Kleine Nachtmusik, of which Vladimir Cosma was co-arranger.

The regulars of Bolling's Sextet – Pierre Dutour, trumpet; Gerard Badini, clarinet and tenor sax; Claude Gousset, trombone; Charlie Blareay, bass; and Peter Tiger, drums – had some assistance for the record. On Eline Kleine Nachtmusik, Banjoist Fernand Garbasi was added for all four-movements, although he plays guitar on the second. Trumpeter Pierre Selling was added for the final three movements. Gaby Vilain played bass trombone on the final movement. Tenor man Michel Portal also was added for the Rondo. A string section under the direction of Jean Gitton augmented the players for the first three movements.

Garbasi and his banjo, plus soprano saxist Pierre Gossez, joined the sextet for Mon Coeur Soupire which, like the final selection on side two, is from Mozart's opera, The Marriage of Figaro

Banjoist Garbasi and trumpeter Selling joined the sextet, along with Portal on clarinet and Charles Verstrate on trombone for Rondo Ala Turque.

Trumpeter Sellin alone was added to the sextet for the Andante and Variations 1, 2, 3, 6 from Sonata No. 11.

Gossez adds both his soprano sax and clarinet to the sextet's sound for the Overtunr to The Marriage of Figaro.

The album was recorded in Paris in October, 1965, – Dom Cerulli

Allegro
Romance
Minuetto
Rondo
Mon Coeur Soupire
Rondo Ala Turque
Andante And Variations - 1, 2, 3, 6 from Sonata No. 11
Overture - From the Marriage of Figaro