Niels Lan Doky, Daniel Humair, Chris Minh Doky, Randy Brecker

Paris By Night is a live quartet date led by the Danish pianist Niels Lan Doky, recorded at the club La Villa in Paris in April 1992, with trumpeter Randy Brecker, drummer Daniel Humair and Lan Doky's brother Chris Minh Doky, five and a half years younger, on bass. Lan Doky had moved to Paris in 1989 and was under contract with the label Maracatu. That deal was not exclusive, which left him free to make this one album for Soul Note, released in 1993. Brecker had already played on his 1989 album Dreams, and in 1992 Lan Doky also worked with Humair in Copenhagen, in a project with Charlie Haden and John Scofield.

The concert took place on April 2, 1992, recorded by Etienne Dreuilhe and Jean-Pierre Smadja, with Lan Doky producing and Giovanni Bonandrini as executive producer; the liner notes are by Howard Mandel. It is a club set of long, open performances, seven of them filling almost 75 minutes, and nearly all of them standards. Bronislaw Kaper's Invitation opens at over eleven minutes. Dizzy Gillespie's Blue 'n' Boogie and Sonny Rollins's Sonnymoon For Two, the longest track at thirteen minutes, are the bebop staples. Lover Man, Secret Love and Someday My Prince Will Come complete the book of standards. The one original is Lan Doky's own Dreams.

This is the original Soul Note CD, catalogue number 121206-2, released in 1993.