Louis Armstrong and Sacha Distel

**don_oz** · 01-31-2019, 05:50 PM

What a picture.

**David B** · 01-31-2019, 05:59 PM

With Brigitte Bardot AND an L5. Some guys have all the luck!

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**David B** · 01-31-2019, 06:00 PM

One of my favourite jazz guitar shots:

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(L-R: Jimmy Gourley, René Thomas, Sacha Distel, Jimmy Raney. Paris, 1954. Photo: Jon Raney)

**339 in june** · 01-31-2019, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by David B

With Brigitte Bardot AND an L5. Some guys have all the luck!

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Obviously, the L5 aged much better !

**Rob MacKillop** · 01-31-2019, 06:51 PM

I have only the vaguest of memories, but I think Sacha Distel was the first guy I saw on TV playing jazz on a guitar. I haven't heard him since then, so don't know how good he was, but from the above it looks as though he was doing something right! Who made the guitar in the Armstrong shot? I can't quite make out the name on the headstock.

**David B** · 01-31-2019, 06:57 PM

How about a bit of video to go with that first photo?

**David B** · 01-31-2019, 06:59 PM

**David B** · 01-31-2019, 07:01 PM

**Rob MacKillop** · 01-31-2019, 07:08 PM

He could play. Not just a pretty face.

**neatomic** · 01-31-2019, 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop

Who made the guitar in the Armstrong shot? I can't quite make out the name on the headstock.

french made jacobacci

Les guitares Jacobacci - Jacobacci guitars

cheers

ps- sacha also was involved with the great singer dionne warwick

**neatomic** · 01-31-2019, 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by David B

One of my favourite jazz guitar shots:

Louis Armstrong and Sacha Distel-jimmy_in_paris-2-jpg

(L-R: Jimmy Gourley, René Thomas, Sacha Distel, Jimmy Raney. Paris, 1954. Photo: Jon Raney)

jimmy raney went over to france with sonny clark band..he took the french guitar scene by storm!!! he blew their minds...won numerous french polls and awards...a guitar celeb...he was highly bird inspired in his early days..really played with fire...best true bebop guitarist ever

cheers

**don_oz** · 02-01-2019, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by David B

How about a bit of video to go with that first photo?

Yeah!

**David B** · 02-11-2020, 07:17 PM

Just bumping this thread as some video of Sacha Distel playing Jimmy Raney's tune 'Signal' in 1958 has recently surfaced on YouTube. Distel is playing a Gibson ES-350T.

**wintermoon** · 02-12-2020, 01:54 AM

I think my first exposure to Distel was his appearance on John Lewis' s Afternoon In Paris Atlantic lp w Barney Wilen, Heath, Clarke, etc..
As for Bardot, yes, in her day fantastique! Great old pic....

**Patlotch** · 02-12-2020, 02:09 AM

the origin of this photo is Antibes 1967

if I remember correctly, Sacha Distel, who was a great admirer of Tal Farlow, had been made by the Jacobacci brothers, in Paris, a guitar with a shorter neck

Distel/Gimenez models manufactured in small quantities between 1966 and 1992, a shorter neck. one of their inventions was the zero fret like the others, which gave the same open strings sound

mine, no. When I arrived at the luthier workshop, there was this body with the old-rounded cutaway. She got me more, but I didn't know at the time that access to the treble was more difficult