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 Leon Golzmann or as he was more commonly known, Dajos Béla (19 December 1897 – 5 December 1978), was a Russian jazz violinist and bandleader. Career Golzmann was born in Kyiv, now part of Ukraine, to a Russian father and Hungarian mother. He ...

Ben Berlin Ben Berlin (born Hermann Biek; 1896–1944) was a jazz musician born in Reval (now Tallinn, Estonia) in 1896. He married composer Vera Vinogradova around 1920 and they had two children, Leopold and Nina. Berlin founded the Ben Berlin Dance Orchest ...

Lud Gluskin Ludwig Elias "Lud" GluskinState of New York Certificate and Record of Birth, January 4, 1899. (December 16, 1898 – October 13, 1989) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.Donnelly, K.J. and Philip Hayward (2012''Music in Science Fiction ...

Teddy Sinclair Natalia Noemi "Teddy" Sinclair (née Cappuccini; born 15 August 1986), is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She has recorded music under various aliases, most famously as Natalia Kills and Verbalicious. She is currently the lead vocali ...

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Marek Weber Marek Weber (24 October 1888 – 9 February 1964) was a German violinist and bandleader. Early life and education Born in Lviv (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Weber moved in 1906 to Berlin and studied at the Stern Conservatory. C ...

. Following this he moved to France, where he played with

Fred Adison Albert Lapeyrère, better known as Fred Adison (September 15, 1908, Bordeaux - August 25, 1996, Nice) was a French jazz and light music vocalist, drummer, and bandleader. He studied piano and violin before switching to drums. As a teenager, he ...

, 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 ...

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