Alphonse Cox

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Alphonse Cox (born February 9, 1902 in Liège ; † 1976 ) was a Belgian jazz trumpeter who worked mainly in France in the 1930s .

Act

Cox was one of first in 1922 to the Creole Five of Arthur Briggs , then the Five Merry Kids around the pianist Jean Pâques in Belgium and toured in 1926 as a member of the Michigan Jazz Band to Gaby Malaël in Italy. In 1927 he worked in London with the New Stompers and Billy Arnold . Then he was active with Charles Remue and His New Stompers Orchestra , with whom he made recordings in London ("Vladivostok"). In 1932 he played alongside Noël Chiboust in Patrick et son Orchester , which Guy Paquinet directed. In 1934 he recorded in Paris with Jazz Patrick on the side of Django Reinhardt . At the end of June 1935 he also took part in a recording session of the Quintette du Hot Club de France , in which he worked with Stéphane Grappelli , Django Reinhardt, Roger Chaput , Joseph Reinhardt , Louis Vola , and the expanded cast of Arthur Briggs, Pierre Allier , Eugène d ' Hellemmes and Baro Ferret recorded the titles "Avalon" and "Smoke Rings". In the field of jazz he was involved in five recording sessions between 1927 and 1935.

Lexical entry

  • Emile Henceval Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie Liege 1991

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Adriano Mazzoletti Il jazz in Italia: dalle origini all orchestra grandiflora . EDT 2004, p. 146
  2. ↑ Brass Bulletin , Issues 89–92 BIM, 1995, where 1905 is given as the year of birth
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 1, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Cox, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH 1976