Best of '70s French Jazz

The '70s heralded increasingly adventurous fusion and avant-garde shifts in French jazz. Here saxophonist/clarinetist Michel Portal invests the idiom with the repetitive spirit of minimalism, while Henri Texier juxtaposes an ominous double bass with a cosmopolitan oud. Claude Bolling peppers a chirpy guitar/piano dialogue with Spanish notes, holding a fine balance between classical and jazz.