condition (record/cover): NM / NM Gatefold sleeve. Jacques Bondon and Pierre Dervaux share the sides of a Cybelia LP titled Musique Pour Un Jazz Different / Alternances. Bondon puts jazz in the title but not in the idiom: his "music for a different jazz" uses classical forces to evoke energies that authentic jazz channeled otherwise. Dervaux, orchestra conductor before composer, contributes Alternances, a piece whose title announces structure rather than content.
Cybelia was a second-tier French label, not the prestige of Erato or Harmonia Mundi but dignified presence in the new music catalog. Bondon and Dervaux aren't names that history has promoted to the front rank; this LP preserves them anyway, document of a compositional ecosystem that didn't reduce to the few canonized geniuses.
The formula of a disc split between two composers reflected economies of scale: pressing an LP cost money, and coupling minor authors allowed costs to be amortized. The result for listeners is unexpected juxtaposition, two sensibilities that the market forces into cohabitation. Sometimes dialogues emerge; other times, simply coexistence.
