Une histoire du Jazz Francais
( Naar de Nederlandse vertaling.)
The great French TV station Mezzo, brings classical music, jazz and world music to your TV set, if you're so lucky to live in Western Europe. You also need a contract for the cable network or a satelite dish; never mind - if you have Mezzo on your TV you're a lucky guy!!, I am. Last evening I watched to a program I recorded, titled Une Histoire du Jazz Francais, ( first part ), a documentary made by Jean-Christophe Averty. It contains the history of jazz in France between 1917 and 1940. Jean-Christophe Averty is an expert on jazz and amusement in France of the pre war yea
rs.
I had contact with him a few years ago as he made a radio program, that played all Hit of the week ( and Sefono) recordings from 1930 up to 1932 using my Hit of the week Discography. This might be a great subject to tell about in a later blog.
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In the documentary is a lot of music. Tunes, directly transfered from the original 78rpm recordings are to be heard and early pictures shown. Musicians, active in that period, like Fred Adison and Philippe Brun, tell about their remembrances of that period. The documentary is very informative; all bands and musicians that were active in the 1930s are in the film: Josephine Baker, Lud Gluskin, Gregor, Ray Ventura, Django Reinhardt, Coco Aslan, Roland Dorsay, Django Reinhardt, Bill Coleman, Michel Roger, Django Reinhardt, Helian, Django Reinhardt, Jean-Louis Tristan, Django Reinhardt, Philippe Brun, Jean Laporte and the Hot Club du Jazz with Django Reinhardt.
Django, Django, Django .... Django with Bill Coleman, Django with Alix Combelle, with Eddie Brunner and Freddy Taylor.
Oscar Aleman is not mentioned, not even with a single word, nothing.
How do they call that? Protectionism, making history? No, this is the only true story as seen through the eyes of a French historian.
To illustrate that I like Django's music I will share with you a small fragment of a 1937 Dutch film in which Django Reinhardt and his Hot Club du France perform on a Dutch festival.
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
50: 9 January 1957: They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
Nederlands ( To the English translation )
Het Franse TV station Mezzo brengt klassieke muziek, jazz en wereldmuziek in de huiskamer, mits je aangesloten bent op de kabel of een sateliet schotel hebt, geschikt om het programma te ontvangen. Als je Mezzo hebt, mag je je een gelukkig mens noemen; dat geluk heb ik.
Django, Django, Django .... Django met Bill Coleman, Django met Alix Combelle, met Eddie Brunner en met Freddy Taylor.
Over Oscar Aleman ............. wordt met geen woord gerept.
Hoe heet dat? Hoe noem je zo iets? Geschiedenis maken? Protectionisme? Nee, dit is de geshiedenis van de Jazz in Frankrijk gezien door de ogen van een Franse historicus. Wat een blamage !!
The great French TV station Mezzo, brings classical music, jazz and world music to your TV set, if you're so lucky to live in Western Europe. You also need a contract for the cable network or a satelite dish; never mind - if you have Mezzo on your TV you're a lucky guy!!, I am. Last evening I watched to a program I recorded, titled Une Histoire du Jazz Francais, ( first part ), a documentary made by Jean-Christophe Averty. It contains the history of jazz in France between 1917 and 1940. Jean-Christophe Averty is an expert on jazz and amusement in France of the pre war yea
rs.I had contact with him a few years ago as he made a radio program, that played all Hit of the week ( and Sefono) recordings from 1930 up to 1932 using my Hit of the week Discography. This might be a great subject to tell about in a later blog.
.jpg)
In the documentary is a lot of music. Tunes, directly transfered from the original 78rpm recordings are to be heard and early pictures shown. Musicians, active in that period, like Fred Adison and Philippe Brun, tell about their remembrances of that period. The documentary is very informative; all bands and musicians that were active in the 1930s are in the film: Josephine Baker, Lud Gluskin, Gregor, Ray Ventura, Django Reinhardt, Coco Aslan, Roland Dorsay, Django Reinhardt, Bill Coleman, Michel Roger, Django Reinhardt, Helian, Django Reinhardt, Jean-Louis Tristan, Django Reinhardt, Philippe Brun, Jean Laporte and the Hot Club du Jazz with Django Reinhardt. Django, Django, Django .... Django with Bill Coleman, Django with Alix Combelle, with Eddie Brunner and Freddy Taylor.
Oscar Aleman is not mentioned, not even with a single word, nothing.
How do they call that? Protectionism, making history? No, this is the only true story as seen through the eyes of a French historian.
To illustrate that I like Django's music I will share with you a small fragment of a 1937 Dutch film in which Django Reinhardt and his Hot Club du France perform on a Dutch festival.
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
50: 9 January 1957: They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
Nederlands ( To the English translation )
Het Franse TV station Mezzo brengt klassieke muziek, jazz en wereldmuziek in de huiskamer, mits je aangesloten bent op de kabel of een sateliet schotel hebt, geschikt om het programma te ontvangen. Als je Mezzo hebt, mag je je een gelukkig mens noemen; dat geluk heb ik. Gisterenavond keek ik naar een ( opgenomen ) programma getiteld Une Histoire du Jazz Francais, ( deel één ), een documentaire gemaakt door Jean-Christophe Averty. Het bevat een overzicht van de geschiedenis van de jazz in Frankrijk tussen 1917 en 1940. Jean-Christophe Averty geldt als een expert op het gebied van de Franse jazz en amusementsgeschiedenis uit de periode van voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Een paar jaar geleden had ik contact met hem, vanwege een radioprogramma, waarin hij alle Hit of the weeks ( en Sefono's) draaide, gebruikmakend van mijn Hit of the week Discography. Dit is misschien wel een leuk onderwerp voor een weblog binnenkort.
Django, Django, Django .... Django met Bill Coleman, Django met Alix Combelle, met Eddie Brunner en met Freddy Taylor.
Over Oscar Aleman ............. wordt met geen woord gerept.
Hoe heet dat? Hoe noem je zo iets? Geschiedenis maken? Protectionisme? Nee, dit is de geshiedenis van de Jazz in Frankrijk gezien door de ogen van een Franse historicus. Wat een blamage !!
Om te tonen dat ik niets tegen Django Reinhardt heb, hier een fragment van een Nederlands filmpje uit 1937 waarin Django optreedt met zijn Quintet du Hot Club de France.
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
50: 9 Januari 1957: They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
Keep swinging
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
50: 9 Januari 1957: They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday and her Orchestra
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1 Comments:
Thank you, Hans, for this entry on the French TV program devoted to Jazz in France before WW II. We are not able to view it at our TV-set at my spot of Europe. - It's a shame Alemán isn't mentioned at all, anyway, it seems that's the normal way to look at things from a French point-of-view. Django is always mentioned, of course, even though he wasn't French, but he became a sort of national symbol to keep up the spirit during Nazi occupation in WW II. Such events seem unpredictable in advance, but historians always seem to have an explanation that fits their own plans and interpretations, isn't that a fact?
Good to know that the legacy and story of Oscar Alemán has not been forgotten among the crowd who cares! Thanks to your websites and continueing work on Alemán it's now a historical fact that Django was not the only oyster in the stew that should be mentioned according Jazz in France during the 1930'ies ...
Jo
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