On Tuesday, I posted about jazz guitarist Elek Bacsik. Today, I want to show you what he looked like in action on French television in the early 1960s...
Here's the bearded Bacsik with Baden Powell (acoustic guiar), Sacha Distel and a 13-year-old Boulou Ferré playing Bluesette...
Here's Bacsik playing all five instruments in this video of Take Five...
Here's Bacsik with organist Lou Bennett and drummer Franco Manzecchi...
And here's Bacsik with bassist Michel Gaudry and Serge Gainsbourg on piano....
Bonus: Unfamiliar with Serge Gainsbourg? Here he is in 1960 singing L'eau à la bouche. Gainsbourg was a French vocalist with a brooding, almost camp-sexy sound that was highly stylized, vulnerable and dramatic in the Parisian ballad tradition...
