An unofficial Label Bleu discography

News

* A new release from a new artist: cellist Vincent Segal's T-Bone Guarnerius features Label Bleu regulars Magic Malik and Glenn Ferris among others. 3 short clips can be heard on the Label Bleu website (www.label-bleu.com).

* New releases for spring 2003 include a new Magic Malik disc 00-237, a good value reissue of two Louis Sclavis discs from the late eighties Chine/Chamber Music and a new Steve Coleman On the Rising of the 64 Paths - visit www.label-bleu.com for sound clips.

* There is an enthusiastic review of the Enrico Rava / Stefano Bolani disc Montreal Diary/B at the Guardian.

* Julian Joseph's lengthy interview with Steve Coleman is still available on BBC Radio 3 - click here to hear it. 

* Amazon UK have a number of Label Bleu titles priced at between £11.99 and £12.99 with Richard Galliano's New Musette priced at a very reasonable £8.99.

Links

Press articles have a habit of disappearing into archives - please let me know if you encounter a bad link. Suggestions for appropriate links are also welcome.

* Steve Coleman's Resistance Is Futile earns a 4 star review from the Guardian. Click here to read it. So does Enrico Rava's Plays Miles Davis - click here. And Magic Malik too - here. Only 3 stars for Stefano Bollani's Les Fleurs Bleues though - read the review here.

* See live footage of the Henri Texier Azur Quintet and Julien Lourau's Gambit and Quartet at Radioceros.

* BBC Radio 3 still have a couple of pieces from a live performance by Richard Galliano/Michel Portal and Galliano's New York Quintet. The site also includes a brief biographical essay. Click here to read what The Guardian thought of this performance. 

* BBC Radio 3 also still have part of a great streamed broadcast of a London solo show by Bojan Zulfikarpasic.  

* Paris based music writer Mike Zwerin has a number of good articles and interviews published by the International Herald Tribune:

    Texier trombonist Glenn Ferris          Enrico Rava

    Paolo Fresu                                  Daniel Humair

    David Krakauer                              Michel Portal

    Stefano Di Battista                         David Linx

* The Independent on Magic Malik

* Orchestre National de Jazz have a good website with sound clips and details of all their various incarnations (needs Shockwave).

* Enrico Rava has an excellent site. The musical mouseovers allow overlapping - so you can construct your own Rava solo! (Needs Flash).

* Stefano Bollani has his own site.

* Rattay Music list new releases with cover art, full personnel and track listings.

* For more label discographies check out Michael Fitzgerald's Jazz Record Label listings.