Albert Ferreri

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Albert Ferreri (* around 1910; † unknown) was a French jazz musician ( alto and tenor saxophone , clarinet , composition ) who was also active as a jazz author and music producer .

Live and act

Albert Ferreri, a brother of the jazz musician Léon Ferreri , was active in the Parisian music scene from the early 1930s; first recordings were made in 1933 when he was in Milan with Harry Flemming's orchestra . From 1938 he worked with Gus Viseur and with the Trio Ferret (which consisted of Baro , Matelo and Challain Ferret (guitars) and Maurice Speileux (bass)), with whom he played the jazz numbers “Andalousie”, “Gin Gin”, “Gypsy Swing "And" Exactly Like You "recorded. Further recordings were made with Louis Bacon (" Sweet Lorraine ").

After his internment during the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht, he founded the record label Jazz disques with Charles Delaunay and Léon Cabut in the post-war period , from which Disques Vogue emerged . He also wrote articles for Jazz Hot ( Louis Jordan & son Tympany Five ) and for the magazine of the Hot Club de France ( Défense des Musiciens Français ) in the late 1940s . Around 1945 he played with Gaby Wagenheim , in 1950 with Roy Eldridge . In the field of jazz he was involved in six recording sessions between 1933 and 1950. With his brother Léon he wrote the songs "Une petite salade" and "Gefhulte Fish" under the pseudonym Alferey & Wharton .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Hodeir : Le jazz: cet inconnu . Éditions France-Empire, 1945
  2. ^ Billboard October 7, 1967, p. 41
  3. ^ Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography . London, New York: Routledge, 2007, p. 563
  4. ^ American Studies, Volume 25, University of Kansas, 1984
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 1, 2017)
  6. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series , 1963
  7. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Ferreri, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician, author and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century