8th edition 1973

21-25 July 1973

Amateurs

Germany
Interaction

Austria
Consort

Belgium
Full Moon Music

United Kingdom
Tyne River Jazzmen (Out of competition)
Ron Young Band (Out of competition)

Spain
BAF
Grup de Jazz d’Amics de les Arts de Terrassa
The Squinting Seven

France
Marc Alibert Quartet (Out of competition)
Swinging Jazz Group (Out of competition)
Jean-Pierre Birt Trio
Les Pissenlits
Staphyloccocal Nuclease
Swing Quartet (Out of competition)
Happy Free Music Ensemble

Sweden
Maggie’s Blue Five

Switzerland
Elaoïn
Formation

Czechoslovakia
Academic Jazz Band

First prize (traditional jazz): Maggie’s Blue Five
Accesit (middle jazz) (First prize not awarded): Swinging Jazz Group
First prize (modern jazz): Elaoïn and Grup de Jazz d’Amics de les Arts de Terrassa, ex-aequo
First prize (free jazz): Formation
Best player’s award: Tomas Ornberg, saxofonist of Maggie’s Blue Five, and Urs Voerkel, pianist of Formation
Best Spanish band’s award: Grup de Jazz d’Amics de les Arts de Terrassa

Professionals

Archipel
Ives-Marie Seraline (organ, guitar, flute)
Ives Lannot (bass)
Alain Darquet (drums)
Francis Saure (guitar)
Jean-Claude Paisley (congas, bongos)
Guillaume M’Bongo (congas, bongos, voice)
Jean-Pierre Espil (harmonica, voice)

Benny Waters Quartet
Benny Waters (soprano sax, tenor sax, clarinet)

Clark Terry Big Band
Clark Terry (trumpet)
Stan Shafran (trumpet)
Oscar Gamby (trumpet)
Vince di Martino (trumpet)
Richard Williams (trumpet)
Ernie Wilkins (sax)
Arnie Lawrence (sax)
Chris Woods (sax)
Jimmy Heath (sax)
George Barrow (sax)
Richard Boone (trombone)
Sonny Costanzo (trombone)
Jack Jeffers (trombone)
Jimmy Wilkins (trombone)
Horace Parlan (piano)
Eddie Jones (bass)
Grady Tate (drums)

Blues from Kansas City
Milt Buckner (piano, vibes)
Jay McShann (piano)
Roland Lobligeois (bass)
Paul Gunther (drums)
Michael Silva (drums)
Al Casey (guitar)
Helen Humes (voice)
Jimmy Slide (dance)
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown (guitar, violin)
Candy Johnson (tenor sax, baritone sax)
Arnett Cobb (tenor sax)