It starts with a brilliant tenor horn solo. A baritone joins in, followed by 12 crammed and unfettered bars of trumpet. But wait a minute, thats Martial Solal on piano not Hank Jones, and the man on trumpet is not Miles, but Roger Guerin. Percy Heath and Connie Kay, the rhythm section of the Modern Jazz Quartet, are also on stage. Were at the Stadtische Festhalle. It is autumn 1959, and those present at this SWF Jazz Session that evening, led by tenor saxophonist Hans Koller, were treated to a magical Franco-German rencontre without a trace of the shadows cast by wartime enmity.
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