Reunion

Pierre Tanguay

A lively, entertaining album. — Coda Magazine, Canada

Reunion brings five wonderful Montréal musicians together to play the jazz they love. It’s free-spirited, it comes from the heart and the playing is exciting. It swings, it’s sensitive and it’s witty -- and it’s for you.

Composer(s): Ben Webster, Harry “Sweets” Edison, Vincent Youmans, Jerome Kern, Gerry Mulligan, Jean Derome
Writer(s): Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach
Performer(s): Pierre Tanguay, Jean Derome, Normand Guilbeault, Guillaume Dostaler, Tom Walsh

CD (DSM 3031, 1999)

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1
Better Go (Ben Webster), 7:26
2
Kitty (Harry “Sweets” Edison), 9:56
3
I Want To Be Happy (Vincent Youmans / Irving Caesar) (1925), 7:19
4
Yesterdays (Jerome Kern / Otto Harbach), 10:53
5
Reunion (Gerry Mulligan), 5:37
6
MDM (Jean Derome), 8:07
7
Blues Clair (Jean Derome), 21:18

Label: Dominic Sciscente Music
DSM 3031
1999
UCC 068381303127
Total duration: 70:30

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Discogs (release) 3295450

In the press

Review

Randall Mcilroy, Coda Magazine, no. 294, November 1, 2000

Derome is back with Pierre Tanguay on Reunion. There is no safety net for them, their tonal palette is wide and their sense of adventure welcome. Nailing that on the head is the hot, swinging Better Go on which trombonist Tom Walsh fires the opening salvo before the band rides it out in turns swiping the rhythm metre with abandon, while Tanguay pegs the beat down tight. Their adventurous motifs find humour and good times on the extended odyssey of Blues Clair and an apt exuberance on I Want To Be Happy. A lively, entertaining album.

A lively, entertaining album.