Richard Galliano – Les Années Milan (d’édith Piaf à Astor Piazzolla) 2016 2017

In the summer of 2008 multiple Grammy award winning jazz artist Wynton Marsalis and his quintet teamed-up with French accordionist Richard Galliano at the annual Jazz in Marciac festival in Southern France to pay tribute to the late jazz legends Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf. The result is a live recording, CD/DVD deluxe combination that captures this magical performance by two modern legends. The album, entitled The Wynton Marsalis Quintet & Richard Galliano - From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf: Live in Marciac, captures the magical 9-song set list translating classic jazz vocal compositions into artful instrumental versions that are striking in their rhythmic variety…

Although they both led troubled lives, Holiday and Piaf had very little in common musically. But when Galliano, the French accordion virtuoso, and Marsalis got together at the 2008 Marciac Festival, alternating songs associated with the two singers, they succeeded in finding a great deal of common ground. They are both phenomenal players, and Marsalis's band is one of the best anywhere. Indeed, his saxophonist, Walter Blanding, steals the show at one point.

Edith Piaf is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Still revered as an icon decades after her death, "the Sparrow" served as a touchstone for virtually every chansonnier, male or female, who followed her. Her greatest strength wasn't so much her technique, or the purity of her voice, but the raw, passionate power of her singing…

Tethered Moon - Chansons d'Edith Piaf (1999) {Winter & Winter ‎910 048-2} (Kikuchi, Peacock, Motian)
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Jazz / Cool / Post Bop / Piano Trio

Very few of the numerous jazz tribute albums that were recorded in the late 1990s are truly essential, and only a minority of these are as chance-taking as Chansons de Piaf. This isn't an album in which yet another retro-bop "Young Lion" provides yet another unimaginative album of the same old Cole Porter, George Gershwin, or Irving Berlin songs done the same old way. The person that Tethered Moon – an acoustic trio consisting of pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian – pays tribute to is Edith Piaf, France's most famous pop singer of the 20th century.

You can’t watch more than a handful of films before a Hans Zimmer soundtrack looms into view: the man has been one of the major Hollywood players for years. This collection from the Milan label assesses some of his strongest material, all of which stands firmly in its own right, away from the context of the films.