Cochereau in 1959

[acc]

Two 1959 videos featuring Pierre Cochereau, from the archives of the French Institut National de l'Audiovisuel.

• At his home organ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1JbphMXmRQ;
• at Notre-Dame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFbDgOQJO6M.

(Sorry for those who don't understand French — but then, the music alone is worth it!)

[Corno Dolce]

Aloha acc,

Thank you for finding this fascinating footage - WOW!!!

Cheers,

CD

[rovikered]

The music WOULD be worth it if there were more of it and the youtube sound quality were any good !

[Soubasse]

Having recently viewed the marvelous Solstice disc "Cochereau", I'm fascinated to see this as I recall scarcely any mention of his house instrument on that DVD. Fantastic! Thanks acc!

[jhnbrbr]

Very interesting - and that's some house organ! You get an idea of his personality from these clips, and he comes across to me as someone very logical and precise - in fact, the exact opposite of how I used to imagine him when I'd only heard his music. In those days I always pictured him as a wild-looking long-haired hippy type, but I couldn't have been more wrong.