André Réwéliotty

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André Réwéliotty (born April 30, 1929 in Paris ; † July 24, 1962 ) was a French jazz musician ( clarinet , also soprano saxophone ) and band leader , who is mainly remembered for his collaboration with Sidney Bechet between 1951 and 1959.

Live and act

André Réwéliotty, who worked in the Parisian traditional jazz scene from the late 1940s, performed there with his Mimosa New Orleans Band , with whom Marcel Bornstein made the first recordings for Disques Vogue in 1950 (“Donkey Rag”) (tp), Jean-Louis Durand (tb), Yannick Singéry (p), Alain Romantet (b) and Michel Pacout (dr) were involved. 1951/52 Reweliotty's Mimosa Jazzband with Sidney Bechet and Claude Luter ("Kansas City Men Blues", Vogue), 1952 in Belgium and Paris with Hot Lips Page and Zutty Singleton ("Knokkin 'at Knokke-le-Zoutte"). He performed with Albert Nicholas in 1953 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris , in 1955 with Sidney Bechet and Claude Luter at the Paris Olympia and then in Vienna. In 1958 he accompanied Bechet on a tour of Germany with his orchestra.

From 1959 to 1961, the last recordings were made under his own name for Vogue . a. Raymond Fonsèque , Franco Manzecchi , Jean-Claude Naude , René Franc , Zozo d'Halluin and Benny Bennett contributed. In the field of jazz he was involved in 40 recording sessions between 1950 and 1961. He died as a result of a traffic accident that occurred in the tunnel de Saint-Cloud on the A 13 autoroute . Réwéliotty is buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Béthune Sidney Bechet Marseille 1997, p. 156
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 21, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Réwéliotty, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1962