Bamboula Ferret
Edouart Bamboula Ferret (born November 12, 1919 in Sint-Lievens-Houtem ; † September 25, 2008 in Paris ) was a Belgian musician ( guitar , vocals , violin , composition ) of gypsy jazz .
Act
Ferret, who grew up in a Manouche family, traveled between France and Flanders his whole life. In the 1930s he was one of the guitarists in the De Piottos ensemble around the violinist Piotto Limberger (1914–1980; grandfather of Tcha Limberger ) and the guitarist Latcheben Grünholz (1912–1988; grandfather of Stochelo Rosenberg ).
Ferret first worked as a guitarist, then since the 1960s mainly as a violinist and singer. At the end of the 1980s he began to compose songs in his Romance mother tongue in collaboration with his nephew, the guitarist Fapy Lafertin . In 1998 Lafertin recorded a few songs with him; the recordings were initially intended for the family alone and then appeared on two bootleg albums before they were officially released in 2011. Ferret also wrote the Valse de Bamboula , best known through recordings by Lafertin and Angelo Debarre . In 2008 he performed at the Django Reinhardt Festival in Samois-sur-Seine .
literature
- Michael Dregni: Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-531192-1
Web links
- Entry (Django Station)
- portrait
- Bamboula Ferret in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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| SURNAME | Ferret, Bamboula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferret, Edouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian jazz musician (violin, vocals, composition) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sint-Lievens-Houtem |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2008 |
| Place of death | Paris |