yves francois et rocambu jazz has several members, many of us are in other bands, and we adjust the personell to the size and style that the gig requirers (we play rumbas, biguines, swing, blues, congas, sambas and highlife so we try to find what is the need for the particular gig) so hear is a listing of tribe rocambu
>Yves Francois trumpet, bandleader, arranger, vocal (well, maybe animator)
>Frank Youngwerth trumpet, vocal (animator as well)
>Charles Shallcross valve trombone, bass, tuba
>Dave Smith clarinet, alto and baritone sax
>Marc Smierciak clarinet, alto sax, percussion
>Jim Christopher clarinet, tenor and baritone sax
>Simon Kashama guitar, vocal
>Dan Nicki rhythm guitar, darbooka, djembe
>Ben Lansing lead guitar, banjo, mandolin
> Pat McClintock guitar
>Joe Spilberg bass
> Ronnie Malley percussion, oud
> Mike Tooles trap kit, occ percussion
> John Knecht percussion, trap kit
> George Lawler trap kit, percussion
>on occasion ryan mayer on percussion may show up as well as bassist tim seisser ,guitarist bruce mak and trombonist dave ramey, they are some of our friends.
Yves Francois also plays a lot of jazz music from the traditional and swing era, mostly bands led the the late great Franz Jackson (1912.2008), indeed check the cd "Blues For Hawk" on DELMARK (CD565), hopefully concert footage from Franz 95th birthday concert may get issued someday as well.
Influences
yves francois himself was influenced by the great jazz musicians he heard first in reocrds (louis armstrong, frankie newton, lips page, booker pittman, king oliver, duke ellington, slim gaillard etc), then live, and was helped (and most influenced by above all other musicians)by tenor sax and clarinet legend Franz Jackson (who was still playing and singing until Feb 2008. he died in May . 6 ,2008). the trumpeter who yves was most touched by was the legendary trumpeter oran hot lips page, whose plunger work made yves work primarily with the plunger mute and growl, and a blues oriented intonation (curiously enough page, as well as sidney bechet , duke ellington and another musician yves played with, tenor saxophonist paul bascomb, also recorded rumbas and calypsos, unlike most jazz musicians from his generation).yves was also influenced by his family, as well, being french and the family growing up in africa, yves also listened to the french jazz musicians his mother talked about (claude luter, pierre merlin, pierre atlan, "moustache" galepides, mowgli jospin, pierre braslavsky, aime barelli, and the remarkable trumpeter irakli amongst so many greats) african, caribbean and arabic (yves met several musicians in this band from playing with the band led by the excellent tunisian percussionist and teacher najib bhari) musics as well as jazz and french chanson, indian (esp goan) populist musics (try trumpeters chic chocolate or frank fernand, both were influenced by cricket smith, as well as vocalists like jacinto vaz), and tango. these influences include le grand kalle, franco ok jazz, bantous jazz, bembeya jazz orchestra baobob, bobby benson, gold coast police band, fela kuti, bellamou messaoud, stellio, abel beauregard, rico's creole band, leocuna cuban boys, romeu silva, blackout, noel rosa, ahmed ratip, oscar aleman, django reinhardt (just to name a few) as well as the mature jazz influenced popular music of the 50's like esquivel, earl bostic and lynn hope, not to mention the great american jazz musicians mentioned above , this give rocambu jazz a sound not quite like any other band. we come from many different musical backgrounds to bring about this reworking of older urban populist music with a jazz background.
Sounds Like
If you mixed Biguine, old jazz, rumba's from cuba before the 1950's (sons and congas) and rumbas from congo (after the 1940's proto soukous) with a dash of highlife and samba, and some esquivel sounding orchestration on top of it all (though the vocals are more in the way of either highlife, blues or lingala rumba) you may get an idea of what the band sounds like, try these great artists: rico's creole band , orchestre creole matou, grand kalle, franco et ok jazz (during the 1950's and early 1960's), new olreans and harlem jazz horns over african populist music from the 1950's rhythms, balla et ses balladans, bobby benson, dr victor olyala (1960's recordings), barrel couppet (phillips rec 1950's), orchestra rock a mambo, bantous jazz (1960 rec), webert sicot (1960's),jazz sam castendet, when sidney bechet, lips page or oscar aleman do their latin rhythms, ahmed ratip, louis cole, blackout (a brazillian samba singer, though more for his bands than himself), leocona's cuban boys, ciro rimac even esquevil at times, for more recent recordings: bembeya jazz, orchestra baobab, buena vista social club, hope this helps!
Record Label
yves francois delmark, y f et rocambu jazz odelion
yves francois is primarly a jazz trumpeter from the swing era style. influenced equally by new orleans players (louis armstrong, mutt carey, bunk johnson, king oliver, lee collins, punch miller, herb morand, and the remarkable tommy ladiner) and more modern "harlem" and "kansas city" players (frankie newton, hot lips page, harry cooper, bill coleman, arthur briggs, muggsy spainer, edgar battle, jabbo smith,jack purvis, louis metcalfe, rex stewart, bobby stark, cootie williams, jacques butler, and the remarkable antillian abel beauregard to name a few), yves' first goal was to play with musicians from the golden age of jazz. he recorded a few sessions with saxophone greats franz jackson (a great influence on yves both as a favorite musician and a person), eddie johnson, herbert "jeep" robinson, and paul bascomb. the titles with the first two have been issued by delamrk, and can also be found on this myspace page as well for samples and purchases (the cd : "blues for hawk" delmark 565). since then we have gone into some world musics that relate to jazz (biguine, high life and other related forms), as well as showing how the primary jazz music from new orleans and harlem related to such musics like highlife, congolese rumba, argentine musicians like oscar aleman and ahmed ratip and the jazz pionered by the manouche and gitan musicians like django and the ferret brothers. other's may see differences, we see the common thread between these excellent forms of musics, and we plan to demonstrate that on our next cd, due out in 2008, thank you, yves
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Thyank You very much for coming to the concert, it was pleasure meeting you. Thanks a lot for your kind comment and compliments about my music. I don't have a CD and I don't know how to do that. I will let you know when that start happening.
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Salut ^_^ I hope you are well!! I invite you to listen the new songs on my page. I recorded them with Xavier Richardeau (Sax Bariton and Ténor) Jean Philippe Bordier (Guitar) and Mathias Allamane (Double Bass). Give me your impressions!! Take Care Tricia Evy
