Henri Salvador- Room with a View
Feb 12, 2002
Original Release Date: Feb 12, 2002

1. Jazz, Silver Moonlight (Biolay/Biolay/Zeidel/Zeidel)
2. Jardim (Biolay/Biolay/Zeidel/Zeidel)
3. Room With a View (Biolay/Salvador/Zeidel)
4. J'Ai Vu (Modo/Salvador)
5. All I Really Want Is Love performed by Salvador / Lisa Ekdahl
6. La Muraille de Chine (Molard/Salvador)
7. Il Fait Dimanche (Esteve/Mengo)
8. Un Tour de Man銶e performed by Salvador / Toots Thielemans
9. Vagabond (Esteve/Mengo) 10. Je Sais Que Tu Sais (Misraki)
11. Mademoiselle (Dutronic/Garoux/Salvador)
12. Faire des Ronds Dans l'Eau (Biolay/Biolay/Zeidel/Zeidel)
13. Aime-Moi (Michel/Salvador)
14. Le Fou de la Reine performed by Salvador / Fran蔞ise Hardy

Review
A French legend, Henri Salvador was born in 1917 in Cayenne, French Guiana. He studied music in Paris and played guitar with Django Reinhardt on one occasion. It's lovely to know that a man of such an age can still play with such grace and is young at heart. This album demonstrates music doesn't fade with age, but marinate with time. Henri Salvador's voice is like a nicely aged bottle of wine, so tender, so smooth, so dreamlike.

Re-released on Blue Note in 2002, the music here is loungy, Latin, and contains Bossa Nova groove. The first song "Jazz, Silver Moonlight" starts off mellow, inducing a Bossa Nova mood, mixed with impressive bass and drums. The trombone solo is impeccable. The other highlight is the duet between Salvador and Lisa Ekdahl, the one and only Swedish jazz diva. "All I Really Want is Love" is a must-listen, as it features the predictable yet enjoyable composition by Ekdahl's talented husband Salvadore Poe.

Also incredible to hear Henri side-by-side jazz's only harpist Toots Thielemans and vis-a-vis the one and only Francoise Hardy. Other songs are hit-or-miss, but the overall tone of the album makes it one of the best foreign albums in 2002.