SAHIB SHIHAB + GILSON UNIT La Marche Dans Le Désert LP/1972 France/Avant-Jazz

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SAHIB SHIHAB + GILSON UNIT 'La Marche Dans Le Désert' LP (France, Souffle Continu Records, Catalogue #FFL065) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited year 2020 Souffle Continu Records label vinyl edition of rare 1972 Avant-garde Jazz album by Sahib Shihab + Gilson Unit (originally released in 1972 on the Futura Records label.) For fans of the BYG/Actuel series and Shandar Records releases of the 60's/early 70's French Free Jazz and Avant-garde music underground.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITON!)

Souffle Continu Records present the first vinyl reissue of Sahib Shihab + Jef Gilson Unit's La Marche Dans Le Désert, originally released in 1972. A few months after having released Le Massacre Du Printemps, Jef Gilson was back behind his keyboards heading up his Unit. This time he was joined by Sahib Shihab. The caravan passes by, evoking, one after the other, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, Pierre Henry and Karlheinz Stockhausen... Oh yes, Shihab's saxophone is... amplified. La Marche Dans Le Désert (The Walk in the Desert) is first and foremost the meeting of two iconoclastic musicians: Jef Gilson, pianist who tried his hand in all forms of jazz collaborating with emblematic American musicians (Walter Davis Jr., Woody Shaw, Nathan Davis...) or French musicians who were on their way to becoming so (Jean-Luc Ponty, Bernard Lubat, Michel Portal, Henri Texier...) Shihab is one of the many black American jazzmen who found refuge in Europe. After having played in the bands of Fletcher Henderson and Roy Eldridge, the saxophonist worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Art Blakey and Tadd Dameron. He came to the old continent with the Quincy Jones orchestra, spent a few years in Copenhagen, returned to Los Angeles, then came back to Europe. When he met Jef Gilson, in February 1972, the saxophonist was happily touring with the Clarke-Boland Big Band. La Marche Dans Le Désert was an opportunity for this supporting player to show what he was capable of. And it was some opportunity: with Gilson and his Unit (Pierre Moret on keyboards and Jean-Claude Pourtier on drums, Jef Catoire on double bass, and Bruno Di Gioia and Maurice Bouhana on flute and percussion respectively), Shihab got maximum exposure. To mark the occasion, he put aside his baritone saxophone to play a soprano... varitone. The amplified instrument, while losing nothing of its natural sound, was capable of generating the same presence as Gilson's electronic keyboards. And it would change the face of modal jazz: in a forest of percussion, Shihab and Gilson go on a sensual walkabout that will remain with listeners for long after. Between the two takes of "Mirage", Shihab, this time on baritone again, takes up the mantle once more of a style of jazz he was unable to strictly define. Licensed from Futura / Marge. Remastered from the master tapes; Restored artwork and obi strip.

- Souffle Continu Records present the first vinyl reissue of Sahib Shihab + Jef Gilson Unit's La Marche Dans Le Désert, originally released in 1972.
- A few months after having released Le Massacre Du Printemps (FFL 064LP), Jef Gilson was back behind his keyboards heading up his Unit. This time he was joined the black American Sahib Shihab, who found refuge in Europe.
- Shibab worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Art Blakey. He was touring with the Clarke-Boland Big Band when he recorded
- Playing the amplified varitone, Shibab loses nothing of the saxophone's natural sound, and was capable of generating the same presence as Gilson's electronic keyboards.
- Remastered from the master tapes; Restored artwork and obi strip.   

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

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