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For tonight’s Bond on Vinyl post, we’re still listening to music from Casino Royale (1967)!
Born into a family of French musicians in 1923, Georges Francis Raymond Jouvin initially studied music at the nearby Rennes Conservatory before moving on to the Paris Conservatory. Jouvin became quite adept as a trumpeter and earned the nickname “the man with the Golden Trumpet.”
Jouvin’s first recorded album was released in 1956, consisting of covers of popular music from that time; however, his records eventually featured his own personal classical and jazz compositions. Mostly for the French record label Pathé, Jouvin recorded nearly ninety albums, thousands of individual tracks, and sold over 25 million records. With hundreds of hits to his credit, his recording career lasted into the 1980s.
When the trumpet playing and composing slowed down, Jouvin transitioned into more administrative roles in the music industry. In addition to becoming president of the union of orchestra conductors, Jouvin advanced to vice-president of a French copyright management society known as the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers (SACEM).
Thankfully, during his career of playing jazz covers, Columbia Records released this compilation album, ‘The Best Of Georges Jouvin.’ This was his only album exclusively released in Germany. It features a dozen songs, mostly from stage and screen. The album includes a trumpet-forward rendition of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s theme song to Casino Royale. While it is not as easy to find cover versions of songs from this film compared to the official EON Production James Bond soundtracks, it is usually a fun listen.
139. Georges Jouvin – The Best Of Georges Jouvin
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