Recorded in 1962, this album explodes with vitality.Just when teenagers were discovering the Twist on English and American records, pianist Claude Bolling avoided the trap of playing cover-versions and began writing jazz arrangements of rhythm & blues songs_ and those who listened to the quality of Claude Bolling's swinging piano in this Big Band fronted by GErard Badini immediately fell under its spell.Now reissued by FrEmeaux & AssociEs in agreement with Claude Bolling, this is the dance-album which originally received the Charles Cros Academy Prize. Syncopation from the rhythm-section, efficient brass, a chorus well in place, plus the perfection of Claude Bolling s piano, demonstrate just how much this record deserved that prize.Patrick FREMEAUX