From guitarist Rene Thomas's hard-to-find 1960 album 'Guitar Groove'(OJC) with tenorist J.R.Monterose:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHrZcLdPGA
http://www.allmusic.com/album/guitar...r148799/review
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Rene Thomas ~ Guitar Groove
From guitarist Rene Thomas's hard-to-find 1960 album 'Guitar Groove'(OJC) with tenorist J.R.Monterose:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEHrZcLdPGA
http://www.allmusic.com/album/guitar...r148799/review
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Interesting discovery and someone I had never heard of before this thread. There is a very "French" sound to his playing and not too removed from the kind of Bop that I have heard Sacha Distel play with the likes of Lionel Hampton. I think that jazz guitar from this era is almost like another instrument in the purity of tone and reflects the then current vogue for "cool" jazz. The band make a nice sound and i don't think anyone can have any grumbles about this kind of jazz. Nice groove from the bass and drums.
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J R Monterose has excited mb discussion in earlier times .... here he is
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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the belgian connection again but not Rene Thomas
sorry for the xover to JR but here is Rene in fine form in his own trio
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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