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Many American jazz artists have lived in France from Sidney Bechet to Archie Shepp. These Americans would have an influence on French jazz, but at the same time French jazz had its own inspirations as well. For example, Bal-musette had some influence on France's form of Gypsy jazz. Similarly, the violin, and to an extent the guitar, were ...
James Reese Europe (February 22, 1880 [1] – May 9, 1919) was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer.He was the leading figure on the African-American music scene of New York City in the 1910s.
Jean-Claude Fohrenbach (January 5, 1925, Paris – March 30, 2009, Villiers-le-Duc) was a French jazz saxophonist. Fohrenbach learned clarinet, piano, tenor saxophone, and violin as a child, concentrating on tenor sax once he began playing full-time in the mid-1940s.
The Années folles (French pronunciation: [ane fɔl], "crazy years" in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France. It was coined to describe the social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. [1] The same period is also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in the United States.
Django pursued modern jazz until his death in 1953, while Grappelli played and recorded mainstream swing music throughout the 1950s and 1960s when he was active on the music scene. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a handful of European guitarists continued to play acoustic jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt, largely ignored by the jazz ...
His home, a castle previously occupied by the Knights Templar, in rural France was a popular destination for jazz expatriates living in Europe including Johnny Griffin, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans. Paudras was himself an accomplished jazz and classical pianist, and a few of his performances during the 1980s were captured on tape. [9]
Free Jazz, with Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin, Michel Portal, François Jeanneau, 1965. La Maison Fille du Soleil,with Don Cherry, Beb Guérin, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, 1965. Le Nouveau Jazz, with Barney Wilen, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Aldo Romano, 1967. François Tusques – La Reine des Vampires - Eddy Gaumont plays violin, 1967
The Courage Corporate: Adelaide Songs of World War One. Oakland Park, S. Aust: Pioneer Books in association with Academy Enterprises and Hermit Press, 1983. ISBN 0-908065-28-0 OCLC 19093270; Holden, Robert. And the Band Played On: How Music Lifted the Anzac Spirit in the Battlefields of the First World War. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant ...