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Rio De Gregori
Rio de Gregori (22 September 1919, in Zurich – 22 May 1987, in Munich) was a Swiss jazz pianist. De Gregori first started to play the piano at the age of 7. His parents had aspirations that he would become a classical pianist, but he performed professionally as a jazz musician. He worked with of Willy Mac Allen (1939–1940), James Boucher (1940–1941), Jo Grandjean (1942) and René Weiss (until 1944). During the war he played with Fred Böhler until 1945 when he founded a big band of his own which included Flavio Ambrosetti and Stuff Combe. When his band broke up, he still worked as both a trio and soloist and he managed a bar in Ascona, Switzerland. He settled, later, in Munich and opened a night club there, Bar Ascona, and called himself Rio Gregory. He composed many songs with the German singer and songwriter Suzanne Doucet Suzanne Doucet is a German new-age musician, producer, composer, and singer, best known for being one of the founders of new age music. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by population, third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 11th-largest city in the European Union. The Munich Metropolitan Region, city's metropolitan region is home to 6 million people. Straddling the banks of the River Isar (a tributary of the Danube) north of the Northern Limestone Alps, Bavarian Alps, Munich is the seat of the Bavarian Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, while being the population density, most densely populated municipality in Germany (4,500 people per km2). Munich is the second-largest city in the Bavarian dialects, Bavarian dialect area, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Mac Allen
Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, and screenwriter * Willie Allen (basketball) (born 1949), American basketball player and director of the Growing Power urban farming program * Willie Allen (racing driver) (born 1980), American racing driver * Willie Anderson (other) * Willie Apiata (born 1972), New Zealand Army soldier, only recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand * Willie (footballer) (born 1993), Brazilian footballer Willie Hortencio Barbosa * Willy Böckl (1893–1975), Austrian world champion figure skater * Willy Bocklant (1941–1985), Belgian road racing cyclist * Willy Bogner, Sr. (1909–1977), German Nordic skier * Willy Bogner, Jr. (born 1942), German fashion designer and alpine skier * Willie Bosket (born 1962), American convicted murderer whose nume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Boucher (musician)
James Chrysostom Boucher (22 December 1910 – 25 December 1995) was an Irish cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and off-break bowler. Boucher was educated at Belvedere College in Dublin.'' Wisden'' 1974, p. 1075. He made his debut for Ireland against a team known as "The Cataramans" in July 1929. He went on to play for them on 60 occasions, his last game coming against Scotland in July 1954. He then served as honorary secretary of the Irish Cricket Union Cricket Ireland, officially the Irish Cricket Union, is the national Sport governing body, governing body for cricket on the island of Ireland (both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland), and oversees the national Ireland cricket team, m ... until 1973. Of his matches for Ireland, 28 had first-class status, and in those games he took 168 wickets at an average of 14.04. His best bowling was 7/13 against New Zealand in September 1937. In all matches for Ireland he took 307 wickets, one of only two Irish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Weiss
René Weiss (1900 – August 28, 1984) was a Swiss jazz trombonist. He was born and died in Geneva. Weiss was classically trained in music, and played early in the 1920s with the Illarez Orchestra and Jean Yatov. After this he relocated to Berlin and played with Dajos Béla, Ben Berlin, Lud Gluskin, Teddy Sinclair, and Marek Weber. Following this he moved to France, where he played with Fred Adison, Guy Paquinet, and Ray Ventura, as well as in the house ensemble for Paris's Paramount Theatre. At the outbreak of World War II, he returned to Switzerland, where he played with Teddy Stauffer during the war. References *"René Weiss". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U .... {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiss, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Böhler
Alfred "Fred" Böhler (July 26, 1912, Zürich - January 10, 1995, Zumikon) was a Swiss jazz keyboardist and bandleader. Böhler started on violin as a child but later switched to piano. He led his own ensemble starting in 1936, which featured Eddie Brunner and Hazy Osterwald, among others, as sidemen. This group made several tours of Switzerland during World War II and recorded copiously for Columbia Records. In 1943, Böhler conducted an orchestral ensemble that played symphonic jazz. While he recorded most often on piano, he also used Hammond organ early in a jazz context. References *J.-R. Hippenmeyer, ''Le jazz en Suisse, 1930-1970'' (Yverdon, Switzerland, 1971) *Fred Böhler Kuratorium, ''Fred Böhler: sein Leben, seine Music'' (Dübendorf, Switzerland, 1996) *Rainer E. Lotz, "Fred Böhler". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Ambrosetti
Flavio Ambrosetti (October 8, 1919 in Lugano – August 21, 2012 in Ticino) was a Swiss jazz vibraphonist, saxophonist, and engineer. Ambrosetti's primary career was in engineering; his acclaim in jazz circles has come entirely from his activities as an occasional musician. He studied piano as a child and taught himself to play tenor and alto saxophone as a teenager. He attended engineering school in Zurich and played with Rio de Gregori during World War II; later in the decade he worked with Gil Cuppini and Hazy Osterwald. In the 1950s he played as a sideman and with his own ensemble, which included Raymond Court and George Gruntz. In the 1960s he led a quintet which included his son, Franco Ambrosetti, as well as George Gruntz and Daniel Humair, which toured and was featured on television and radio broadcasts. He expanded this ensemble to a big band in 1972, touring in Europe and playing with Dexter Gordon and Phil Woods Philip Wells Woods (November 2, 1931 – September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuff Combe
Etienne Stephen Jean Gustave "Stuff" Combe (March 12, 1924 in Bern – December 27, 1986 in Morges) was a Swiss jazz drummer. Combe initially pursued schooling in art during World War II, but ultimately decided on a career in music instead. He played in Switzerland in the 1940s with Philippe Brun, Eddie Brunner, Ernst Hollerhagen, and Hazy Osterwald. In the 1950s he traveled widely throughout Europe and played frequently with visiting American musicians; he also recorded with Paul Kuhn and Fats Sadi near the end of the decade. In 1957 he began playing with Kurt Edelhagen, an association that would continue into the mid-1960s. He formed his own large ensemble in Geneva in 1966, and the following year worked with the Radio Suisse Romande jazz band. He was Lucky Thompson's drummer during Thompson's 1969 Swiss tour. In the 1970s he worked with Francy Boland and Benny Bailey, and played in the western United States with Groupe Instrumental Romand. He also wrote a treatise on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Doucet
Suzanne Doucet is a German new-age musician, producer, composer, and singer, best known for being one of the founders of new age music. She was the founder of the first new age music store in Hollywood, California ''Only New Age Music'' in 1987 and founded the first New Age Music Conference in Los Angeles in 1989. Doucet was an actress and singer in Germany and Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s receiving European airplay for her German version of ''Be My Baby'', which charted at number 1 on German music charts. ''Bunter Drachen'', which appeared in the Guy Ritchie film, ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'' also charted at number 1. She starred in Godspell, alongside Donna Summer, which toured throughout Europe. In 2020, ''Fact Magazine'' listed Doucet's album ''Reflecting Light, Vol. 1'' from 1983 at number 4 of the ''20 Best New Age Albums of all Time''. Her single, ''Forever'', was featured in Shirley Maclaine's videos, ''Inner Workout'' and ''Going Within''. Early life and career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Ritchie
Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the ''Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Robert Downey Jr. Ritchie left school at age 15 and worked entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. In 1995, he directed a short film, ''The Hard Case'', followed by the crime comedy ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' (1998), his feature-length directorial debut. He gained recognition with his second film, '' Snatch'' (2000), which found critical and commercial success. Following ''Snatch'', Ritchie directed '' Swept Away'' (2002), a critically panned box-office bomb starring Madonna, to whom Ritchie was married between 2000 and 2008. He went on to direct '' Revolver'' (2005) and ''RocknRolla'' (2008), which were less successful and received mixed reviews. In 2009 and 2011, he directed two box-office hits, ''Sherlock Holmes'' and its sequel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From U
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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