Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin

Serge Gainsbourg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 1997)
• Original Release Date: February 11, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Island / Mercury
• ASIN: B000001E5G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,148 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Angoisse [Anguish][Instrumental]

2. Du Jazz Dans le Ravin

3. Requim pour un Twister [Requiem for a Twist Dancer]

4. Chez les Yé-Yé

5. Black March [Instrumental]

6. Black Trombone [Instrumental]

7. Ce Mortel Ennui [This Mortal Ennui]

8. Générique [Instrumental]

9. Coco and Co.

10. Intoxicated Man

11. Elaeudanla Téïtéïa

12. Le Talkie-Walkie

13. Some Small Chance [Instrumental]

14. Quand Tu T'Y Mets (When You Go for It)

15. La Fille au Rasoir [The Girl with the Razor Blade]

16. Quand Mon 6'35 Me Fait les Yeux Doux

17. Fugue [Instrumental]

18. Machins Choses (What's His Name)

19. Negative Blues

20. Wake Me at Five [Instrumental]

Editorial Reviews

Import vinyl LP pressing of this collection from the French Pop icon. 17 tracks. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius, June 26, 2001

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jumpy1 (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin (Audio CD)

Work of genius from a very versatile artist. I think this is his best album. I don't know how he does it -- sensitive yet callous, superficial yet intense. Sorry to sound corny but there it is. I hear his songs in my head, they are hard to shake off, they are so right-on. You think it's just for fun and then you realize later, this stuff is deep!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Requiem pour un twisteur, September 12, 2000

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EriKa "E" (Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin (Audio CD)

Gainsbourg dabbled with many styles, but he loved jazz and produced a lot of jazz works, particularly in the earliest parts of his career. This album is the product of his admiration for and emulation of jazz. It is clear he is trying to carve out something original. Indeed his work is quite distinctive... vintage Gainsbourg with its roots clearly in jazz. Still the same tongue-in-cheek Gainsbourg (if you understand French, a pretty funny set of lyrics is to be had in the tune "Du jazz dans le Ravin".) All recorded in the early 1960s, this record is a collection of Gainsbourg's experiments with jazz. While some of the music sounds standard and repetitive, there are moments of originality and brilliance. My personal favourites are "Requiem pour un twisteur", "Chez les Yé-Yé', "Black Trombone" (which sounds sort of a like a lounge singer's act), "Quand Mon 6.35 me fait les yeux doux" and "Machins choses" (which strikes me as somewhat melancholy for some reason.) This is definitely a worthwhile listen/purchase.

For more Serge-related stuff (tribute albums) check out the Serge Gainsbourg CD of the Great Jewish Artists series and also the Mick Harvey CDs (with English language musical interpretations of many Gainsbourg songs).

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FRENCH BEAT-JAZZ, May 1, 1999

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"pathetron" (NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin (Audio CD)

This is the font of 60's french beat-jazz-pop, lyrics french but anglified in the then-current fashion, liner pictures of Serge drinking coffee alone in a parisian cafe (so much ennui!), assuredly having just been left by Brigitte Bardot or some other of his string of gorgeous internationally-famous mistresses (see Bardot's own comp recording "Bubble Gum" for the more voluptuous & free-spirited side of the parisian spectrum. If you never liked Serge before, and assuredly you have been given every reason not to ("Harley-Davidson", my god), I guarantee you'll love this. "Comic Strip", in this same series, is also very good, although the third volume "Couleur Cafe" is way too faux-ethnic for my taste.