Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-07-12 01:04
Though Hubert Rostaing is often remembered as a trad jazz player with Reinhardt, I first heard of him in the late 50s as a modern jazz player roughly in the "birth of the cool" school performing with the Kenny Clarke Sextet. An adaptable, versatile player, he could play Le Jazz Hot one day, front a big swing band on another, or switch to a perfectly vibratoless Lee Konitz style on alto sax as he did here, performing Milt Jackson's "Tahiti" with the Kenny Clarke Sextet, including fellow Algerian, Martial Solal, on piano:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kenny+Clark%27s+sextet+Tahiti+1956.
As if this wasn't enough, Rostaing wrote the score to "Barocco." a 1977 French film, and did many other film scores, as well as compose music to "Six Fables of La Fontaine." He was classically trained and didn't seem to have just one easily identifiable style; given any situation he managed to morph completely into the setting like a polygot with the gift of getting the accent and pronounciaton of a new language just right so that even native speakers could not tell he wasn't born speaking it. I wonder if he ever performed the Barraque Clarinet Concerto; he was certainly capable of playing it (a peice that, despite the title, doesn't really feature or foreground the player much as a soloist).
Post Edited (2016-07-12 01:17)
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