Bill Alexandre

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Bill Alexandre (* around 1920) is a Belgian jazz guitarist and band leader .

Live and act

Alexandre played in Brussels in 1942 with Pierre Hermange's band Les Cinq de l'Harmonica , with which the first recordings were made, the following year in the orchestras of Paul Gason and Charlie Calmeyn . Under his own name ( Bill Alexandre en Zijn Orkest ) he recorded the bebop numbers Allen's Alley and Ornithology in The Hague in 1946 , while Herman Sandy (trumpet), Freddy Lhost (alto saxophone, clarinet), Freddy De Bondt (tenor saxophone) played in his band. , Philippe Decae (piano), Jean Warland (bass) and John Ward (drums). In 1948 Bill Alexandre's septet had an engagement at Bœuf sur le Toit in Paris . During this time he also appeared in the Grand Siècle (at the Porte de Namur in Brussels); The band vocalist in his orchestra was the Congolese Vicky Down. In 1950 he accompanied Toots Thielemans and played with Robert De Kers ( At the Darktown Strutters' Ball ). In the field of jazz he was involved in twelve recording sessions between 1941 and 1952, most recently with Steve Kirk and His Orchestra. In the 1950s he was still taking part in recording sessions in Opika in the Belgian Congo , where he set up a recording studio.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie , ed. by Emile Henceval. 1991, p. 133
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 17, 2016)
  3. ↑ See Gary Stewart: Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos . 2003, p. 46., in Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance, Volume 7 , 2003, p. 700 and in Kerstin Pinther, Larissa Förster, Christian Hanussek: Afropolis: City Media Art . 2012, p. 227
  4. ^ The Beat, Volume 20 Cover Bongo Productions, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Alexandre, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz guitarist and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1920