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Alix Combelle
Alix Combelle (15 June 1912 – 26 February 1978 :fr:Alix Combelle) was a French swing saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader. He recorded often with Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Career A native of Paris, his father was François Combelle, who played classical saxophone with the Band of the Republican Guard. Alix Combelle played drums in the late 1920s. In the early 1930s he played clarinet and saxophone in theater pit orchestras in Paris. He was a member of a bands led by Gregor (Krikor Kelekian), Arthur Briggs, Michel Warlop, Guy Paquinet, and Ray Ventura. He worked with visiting American musicians such as Benny Carter, Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins, Freddy Johnson, and Danny Polo. He was a member of Bill Coleman's band when it included Argentinian swing guitarist Oscar Aleman. He performed with French singers such as Charles Trenet and Jean Sablon Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne 25 March 1906 – Cannes 24 February 1994) was a French s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mantes-la-Jolie
Mantes-la-Jolie (, often informally called Mantes) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France. It is located to the west of Paris, from the centre of the capital. Mantes-la-Jolie is a subprefecture; in 2016, it had a population of 44,231. History Mantes was halfway between the centres of power of the dukes of Normandy at Rouen and the Kings of France at Paris. Along with most of northern France, it changed hands frequently in the Hundred Years' War. Philip Augustus died at Mantes, 14 July 1223. Louis XIV instituted the manufacture of musical instruments in Mantes, and it was chosen as the centre of brass and woodwind instrument manufacture. In the 19th century, painters were attracted to the town, particularly Corot, whose paintings of the bridge and the cathedral are celebrated. Prokofiev spent the summer of 1920 there orchestrating the ballet '' Chout''. Originally officially called Mantes-sur-Seine (meaning "Mantes upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Johnson
Freddy Johnson (March 12, 1904 – March 24, 1961) was an American jazz pianist and singer who gained popularity in the 1930s playing mostly swing style. Biography Johnson began playing professionally as Florence Mills' accompanist, and formed his own band in 1924. In 1925 he worked with Elmer Snowden, and in 1926 he worked with Billy Fowler. He briefly worked with Henri Saparo and Noble Sissle, and then he joined Sam Woodings band and traveled to Europe in June 1928. Wooding and Johnson parted ways in 1929, and Johnson returned to Paris to do solo work. While he was in Paris, he with Arthur Briggs and put together a band. Between late 1933 and 1934 Johnson worked with Freddy Taylor's band, and then in February 1934 Johnson left Paris to work in Belgium and The Netherlands. In the mid 1930s he made some recordings with the Quintette du Hot Club de France. While living in Amsterdam, he co-lead a band with Lex Van Spall, and they played regularly at the Negro Palace in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EPM Musique
EPM Musique is a French record label that was created in 1986 by François Dacla, former president of RCA France. The label specializes in Chanson and its legacy. It is also dedicated to poetry, theater, and children's music. "EPM is a French label whose interests include classic American jazz from the '30s through '50s." The label reissued earlier jazz recordings. Memphis Minnie's recordings were particularly reissued. Most of its catalog is distributed by Universal Music Group. Artists * Léo FerréRobert Wangermée. Dictionnaire de la chanson en Wallonie et à Bruxelles'. Editions Mardaga. 1995. P.231. * Anne Sylvestre * Michèle Bernard * Georges Chelon * Marc Ogeret * Marc Robine * Francis Lemarque * Monique Morelli * Hélène Martin * Julos Beaucarne * Diane Dufresne * Anna Prucnal * Anne Vanderlove * Claudine Lebègue * Francesca Solleville * Marcel Dadi * Pierre Dac * Michel Buhler * Jean Vasca * Pierre Meige Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1937. Specific locations * 1937 in British music * 1937 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1937 in country music * 1937 in jazz Events *January 24 – Ernest John Moeran completes the revised version of his Symphony in G minor, dedicated to conductor Hamilton Harty. *March 6 – Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears first meet, in London. *May 12 – At the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Westminster Abbey, William Walton's ceremonial march, " Crown Imperial", originally written for his predecessor, King Edward VIII, is performed for the first time. *June 2 – The incomplete version of Alban Berg's opera ''Lulu'' is premièred in Zürich (it is later completed in a version premiered in 1979) *June 8 – **After a New York recital with pianist José Iturbi, violinist Manuel Quiroga is hit by a truck while crossing Times Square, leaving him with a paralysed arm. **Première of Carl Orff' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1943. Specific locations * 1943 in British music * 1943 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1943 in country music * 1943 in jazz Events *January 1 – Frank Sinatra appears at the Paramount Theatre causing a mob of hysterical bobby-soxers to flood Times Square and blocking midtown New York City traffic for hours. **Sinatra becomes a featured singer on the popular ''Your Hit Parade'' radio program, and the co-star of the series '' Broadway Bandbox''. By fall, he has left Bandbox to star in his own series ''Songs By Sinatra''. *January 23 – Duke Ellington's orchestra performs for the first time at New York's Carnegie Hall. During the concert, which raises money for war relief, Ellington premieres his most famous and revered extended composition, ''Black, Brown and Beige''. *June 17 – Perry Como signs with RCA. * September 27 – Decca Records is the first label to come to terms with the American Federatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1942. Specific locations * 1942 in British music * 1942 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1942 in country music * 1942 in jazz Events *February 10 – Glenn Miller receives his first gold disc, for ''Chattanooga Choo Choo''. * March 5 – World première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (''Leningrad''), given by the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra conducted by Samuil Samosud at Kuybyshev in Russia and broadcast across the Soviet Union. Premières in Moscow, London and New York follow by the end of July. *March 27 – Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, and Glenn Wallichs take the first legal steps towards founding Capitol Records in the United States. *June 22 – The Paronyan Musical Comedy Theatre of Yerevan opens in Yerevan, Armenia. * July 8 – Music variety show '' Uncle Walter's Doghouse'' is broadcast for the last time on NBC radio in the United States. *July 21 – In celebration of its 25th annivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1941 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1941. Specific locations * 1941 in British music * 1941 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1941 in country music *1941 in jazz Events *January 5 – Ernesto Bonino makes his début on Italian radio. *January 15 – Olivier Messiaen's ''Quatuor pour la fin du temps'' is premiered by the composer and fellow prisoners-of-war in Stalag VIII-A in Silesia. *January 20 – Béla Bartók's '' String Quartet No. 6'' is premièred in New York City. *May – Woody Guthrie writes and records "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" and "Grand Coulee Dam" among other folk songs in Portland, Oregon on a commission from the Bonneville Power Administration; these are released as '' Columbia River Collection''. *May 10 – London's Queen's Hall, venue for The Proms, is bombed by the Luftwaffe. The concert series relocates to the Royal Albert Hall. *August 18 – In a brutal police operation in Nazi Germany, over 300 Swing Kids are arre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1940. Specific locations * 1940 in British music * 1940 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1940 in country music * 1940 in jazz Events * January 30 – Soprano Sophie Wyss gives the first complete performance of Benjamin Britten's ''Les Illuminations'', with Boyd Neel conducting his Orchestra at the Wigmore Hall, London. * February 24 – Frances Langford records ''When You Wish Upon a Star'' *March 28 – Antonio Brosa gives the first performance of Britten's Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic conducted by John Barbirolli in Carnegie Hall, New York. *April 26 – Woody Guthrie records most of his ''Dust Bowl Ballads'' at Victor Talking Machine Company, RCA Victor studios in Camden, New Jersey. *May 27 – Quartetto Egie perform in public for the first time. *July 20 – Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart". *August – Edmundo Ros forms his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1935. Specific locations * 1935 in British music * 1935 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1935 in country music * 1935 in jazz Events *February 26 – Georges Bizet's Symphony in C (1855) is performed for the first time, under Felix Weingartner, in Basel, Switzerland. *April 8 – Béla Bartók's '' String Quartet No. 5'' is premièred in Washington, D.C. * April 23 – ''Your Hit Parade'' is broadcast for the first time on radio. *June 14 – Three X Sisters "2000 requests for the number (The Three Little Pigs Are Porkchops Now), over W1XBS (radio), Waterburians went into a spin. Many from this city." Song also performed June 3, on WJZ (CBS) by the trio, guest appearance on the popular radio program 'One Night Stand.' *July 15 – Alban Berg finishes his Violin Concerto. *December 1 – Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 is premièred in Madrid *''date unknown'' **Soprano Bidu Sayão marries barit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Brun (musician)
Philippe Brun (April 29, 1908, Paris - January 15, 1994, Paris) was a French jazz trumpeter. Brun first began playing professionally in the late 1920s with the bands of Gregor, Danny Polo, and Ray Ventura. In the early 1930s he worked in London with Bert Ambrose, Jack Hylton, and Fred Waring. Returning to Paris around 1936, he played with Jazz du Poste Parisien and with Ventura again, as well as with Alix Combelle where he doubled as a clarinetist on a 1937-1942 recording followed by Django Reinhardt, where he doubled a trombonist in the 1939-1940 recording. He also recorded as a leader from 1937 to 1940. During World War II he worked in Switzerland, with Eddie Brunner, André Ekyan, Edmond Cohanier, and Teddy Stauffer. Brun was married to Annie Fratellini, a vocalist and comedian who also performed with Raymond Fol and Kenny Clarke Kenneth Clarke Spearman (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. A major innovator of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Sablon
Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne 25 March 1906 – Cannes 24 February 1994) was a French singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was one of the first French singers to immerse himself in jazz. The man behind several songs by big French and American names, he was the first to use a microphone on a French stage in 1936. Star of vinyl and the radio, he left France in 1937 to take up a contract with NBC in the United States. His radio and later televised shows made him a huge star in America. Henceforth the most international of French singers among his contemporaries, he became an ambassador of French songwriting and dedicated his career to touring internationally, occasionally returning to France to appear on stage. His sixty-one year career came to an end in 1984. Biography Sablon was born in Nogent-sur-Marne, the son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment. A pupil at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, Jean Sablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Trenet
Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (; 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These include "Boum!" (1938), " La Mer" (1946) and "Nationale 7" (1955). Trenet is also noted for his work with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac, with whom he recorded "Y'a d'la joie" (1938) for the first and "La Romance de Paris" (1941) and "Douce France" (1947) for the latter. He was awarded an Honorary Molière Award in 2000. History Trenet's best-known songs include "Boum!", " La Mer", "Y'a d'la joie", " Que reste-t-il de nos amours?", "Ménilmontant" and "Douce France". His catalogue of songs is enormous, numbering close to a thousand. Some of his songs had unconventional subject matter, with whimsical imagery bordering on the surreal. "Y'a d'la joie" evokes joy through a series of disconnected images, including that of a subway car s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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