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1969 studio album by Dave Burrell

La Vie de Boheme

Studio album by Dave Burrell

Released

December 21, 1969

Michael Cuscuna
Alan Douglas

Dave Burrell chronology

High Won-High Two
(1968)

La Vie de Boheme
(1969)

Echo
(1969)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic

La Vie de Bohème is a studio album released by jazz pianist Dave Burrell. The album is Burrell's take on the 1896 operatic adaptation of Henri Murger's 1851 novel La Vie de Bohème by Giacomo Puccini, titled La bohème. The album has been called "a fine example of the similarities between the free jazz and classical worlds." Though this is not a straight performance of the opera, each of the acts are represented with "a great deal of improvisation."

Track listing

"First Act" — 20:00
"Second Act (1st Part)" — 5:00
"Second Act (2nd Part)" — 12:00
"Third Act" — 5:15
"Fourth Act" — 7:45

Personnel

Dave Burrell — piano
Eleanor Burrell — vocals
Ric Colbeck — piano, trumpet, harp
Claude Delcloo — chimes, drums, tympani
Beb Guérin — bass
Grachan Moncur III — trombone, chimes
Kenneth Terroade — flute, saxophone (tenor)

References

https://www.allmusic.com/album/r151539
Brandon Burke. "La Vie de Boheme at Allmusic". Retrieved 2006-12-26.

v t e Dave Burrell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	High Won-High Two (1968) Echo (1969) La Vie de Bohème (released 1969) After Love (1970) In: Sanity (The 360 Degree Music Experience, 1976) Dave Burrell Plays Ellington & Monk (1978) Lush Life (1978) Windward Passages (hatART, 1979) Live at the Black Musicians' Conference, 1981 (1981) The Jelly Roll Joys (1990) Recital (and Tyrone Brown, 2000) Expansion (2003) Consequences (2005) Margy Pargy (2005) Momentum (2005)
With David Murray	Hope Scope (1987) Ballads (1988) Deep River (1988) Lovers (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Daybreak (Burrell, 1989) Remembrances (1990) Death of a Sideman (1991) In Concert (1991) Picasso (1992) Brother to Brother (1993)
With Archie Shepp	For Losers (1968–69) Kwanza (1968–69) The Way Ahead (1968) Black Gipsy (1969) Blasé (1969) Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969) Pitchin Can (1969–70) Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969) Things Have Got to Change (1971) Attica Blues (1972) The Cry of My People (1972) A Sea of Faces (1975) Body and Soul (1975) Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975) Montreux One (1975) Montreux Two (1975) There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975) U-Jaama (Unite) (1975) Lover Man (1988)
With others	Three for Shepp (Marion Brown, 1966) I Plan to Stay a Believer (William Parker, 2001–08) Essence of Ellington (William Parker, 2012) Epitome (Odean Pope, 1993) Black Woman (Sonny Sharrock, 1969)

v t e Henri Murger's Scenes of Bohemian Life
Opera	La bohème (Puccini) La bohème (Leoncavallo)
Film	La Bohème (1926 silent) Mimi (1935) La Vie de bohème (1945) La Bohème (1965) La Vie de Bohème (1992)
Rent	Rent (1996 musical) Rent (2005 film) Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008 film) Rent: Live (2019) Albums
Music	La Vie de Bohème (1969 album) La bohème discography "La Vie Bohème" "Seasons of Love" "Take Me or Leave Me" "Finale B"

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