André Clergeat

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André Clergeat (born January 4, 1927 in Fix-Saint-Geneys , Haute-Loire department ; † July 23, 2016 in Suresnes ) was a French journalist and music critic who was also a photographer and music producer .

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Clergeat was one of the co-founders of the Hot-Club de l'Université de Paris in 1948/49 and one of the co-organizers of the Festival International 1949 de Jazz . In the 1950s, Clergeat worked in the French music industry; In 1955 he took over the management of the French branch of the American jazz label Pacific before moving to Disques Vogue . He wrote the composition Rag in 1919 under the pseudonym Frank Terran . From 1953 to 1957 he was editor-in-chief of Jazz Hot magazine ; In 1954 he was one of the co-founders of the Académie du Jazz . In 1955 he began his forty-year collaboration with the broadcasters RTF / ORTF / Radio France , for which he produced jazz programs. With Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli he was co-author and editor of the Dictionnaire du jazz, which was first published in 1966 under his name . He also worked with the illustrator Siné ( Sinéclopédie du jazz , Édition. J. Losfeld, 2004) as a photographer for Soul Bag magazine . Clergeat produced re-releases of historical jazz recordings for the Music Memoria label, including the productions The Complete King Oliver 's Creole Jazz Band 1923, A Trumpet Stylist. Tommy Ladnier 1923-1939 (1996) and A Trumpet Styliste. Bunk Johnson (1997). In 2000/01 Clergeat put together a series of compilations for Jazz Magazine , as well as the 20 CD anthology Les Triomphes with jazz, blues , rhythm & blues , country music and French chansons .

Publications (selection)

  • Dictionnaire du jazz . Seghers, 1966
  • Jazz, les incontournables . Ed. Filipacchi, 1990
  • Le Jazz . Ed. Fuzeau, 2005, with Jacques Aboucaya
  • Grande Enciclopedia del Jazz . Curcio, Rome, 1982
  • Philippe Carles, André Clergeat, Jean-Louis Comolli: Le nouveau dictionnaire du jazz . Edition Robert Laffont, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-221-11592-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in Le Monde
  2. ^ Obituary by Michel Laplace in Jazz Hot
personal data
SURNAME Clergeat, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz author and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Fix-Saint-Geneys , Haute-Loire department
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2016
Place of death Suresnes