Boxset / Compilation · 2000
Tracklist
Bernard Peiffer and His Saint-Germain-des-Prés Orchestra, 1954
1 I Want to Be Happy 5:17
2 Paris je t'aime... d'amour 2:40
3 Pinocchio (When You Wish Upon a Star) 2:36
4 Who Is Me? 2:19
5 Frozen Feet 3:35
6 There's a Small Hotel 3:33
7 Strip Tease 2:20
8 Don't Touch the Grisby 2:05
Bernard Zacharias et ses solistes, 1954
9 Transcendentology 2:56
10 The Man I Love 3:25
11 Somebody Loves Me 2:32
12 Lady Be Good 4:32
13 It Ain't Necessarily so 4:34
14 Summertime 3:52
15 My Man's Gone Now 2:09
16 I Got Plenty of Nothing 1:09
Line-up/Musicians
Bass Clarinet – Michel de Villers (tracks: 9 to 16)
Double Bass – Guy Pedersen (tracks: 9 to 16), Jean-Marie Ingrand (tracks: 1 to 8)
Drums – Jacques David (tracks: 9 to 16), Jean-Baptiste "Mac Kac" Reilles (tracks: 1 to 8)
Flugelhorn – Roger Guérin (tracks: 9 to 16)
French Horn – Robert Casier (tracks: 9 to 16)
Piano – Bernard Peiffer (tracks: 1 to 8)
Piano, Celesta – Jules Dupont (tracks: 9 to 16)
Tenor Saxophone – Bib Monville (tracks: 1 to 8), Bobby Jaspar (tracks: 1 to 8), Jean-Claude Fohrenbach (tracks: 9 to 16)
Trombone – Bernard Zacharias (tracks: 9 to 16)
Trumpet, Euphonium [Baritone Saxhorn] – Roger Guérin (tracks: 1 to 8)
About this release
Gitanes Jazz Productions – 013 042-2 (France)
Recorded January 14, 1954 at the Magellan studio, Paris (1-8) and simply in Paris, 1954 (9-16)
Reissue of the Blue Star 10" LP 6842 (1-8) and of the Club Français du Disque 10" LP 39 (9-16)
Thanks to snobb for the addition