Claude Aubert

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Claude Aubert (* 1925 ; † September 2000 in Spain) was a Swiss jazz musician ( clarinet , soprano saxophone ), band leader and music manager.

Live and act

Aubert comes from a family of artists; his father Georges Aubert was a well-known painter. At the age of twenty, Claude Aubert, who had learned his instrument as an autodidact , played the clarinet with the Dixie Dandies by Loys Choquart , then with the New Rhythm Band (with musicians such as Henri Chaix , Pierre Bouru, the trumpeters Paul Delisle and Mario Gallopini and the trombonist Bibus Dufour) and on a tour within Switzerland with the New Orleans Stompers . In 1949, after attending a concert by Sidney Bechet , he switched to the soprano saxophone. In the first Geneva jazz club Cat Club (founded in 1949), he formed the house trio with Henri Chaix and drummer Pierre Bouru for more than two years and accompanied traveling musicians such as Sidney Bechet, Wallace Bishop , Glyn Paque and Peanuts Holland . In 1951 he recorded with the Dixie Dandies and went on tour with Humphrey Lyttelton . In the same year, Aubert put together his own orchestra after the club was closed; this included trumpeter Gabriel Preitner, guitarist Marc Roth and drummer Pascal Jeanmairet. Then he formed his orchestra with the unusual frontline of soprano saxophone, clarinet and tenor saxophone, which became one of the most famous jazz formations in Switzerland.

At the end of 1960, Aubert ended his active career as a musician to work as the Swiss general agent for the Vogue label . His orchestra continued to exist under the name Orchester Henri Chaix . Aubert was then Swiss director of the Barclay label . In early retirement he retired to Spain, where he died after a serious illness.

Discographic notes

  • Memorial Henri Chaix (Elite / Sackville 1955-1959)

Lexigraphic entries

  • Bruno Spoerri (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: Spoerri, Bruno (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories . Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

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personal data
SURNAME Aubert, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician and music manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1925
DATE OF DEATH September 2000
Place of death Spain