Détours – Sur les routes d'Europe avec Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, James Carter...
Christian Laurella, writer and tour manager ("orchestra conductor", as Ahmad Jamal puts it), recalls his European tours with the greatest figures in American jazz—Chet Baker, Archie Shepp, Tony Williams, Jaco Pastorius, etc.
Christian Laurella (born 1951) played drums and percussion with Pierre Akendengue, Vince Taylor and Cirque Plume, before becoming tour manager. Laurella is also an author of thrillers, and his lively prose paints portraits of musicians we hadn't heard of before.
