John Lewis and Sacha Distel: Afternoon In Paris

Rating: ★★★★

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Poll Winners Records

March/2019

Distel’s fine guitar playing took a back seat after this celebrated 1956 session with MJQ members, plus Barney Wilen, (and Pierre Michelot on some tracks), but this shows what his singing and show career denied to the jazz world, and – coupled with a rare collaboration with Albert Mangelsdorff – it’s essential Lewis.

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