Claude Delcloo

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Claude Delcloo is a French jazz musician ( drums and percussion ) and music producer .

Claude Delcloo founded the jazz fanzine Actuel in 1967 (which was soon taken over by the BYG-Actuel label) and performed at the Free Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden in 1969 with musicians such as Albert Mangelsdorff , Gerd Dudek , Heinz Sauer , Lester Bowie and Roscoe Mitchell . During this time he also played with the Burton Greene Ensemble, the Full Moon Ensemble (with Joseph Dejean ), and with Dave Burrell ( La Vie de Boheme 1969), Jacques Coursil , Terje Rypdal , Alan Silva , Hugh Steinmetz and Clifford Thornton ( Ketchaoua ) . In 1969 Delcloo made the album Africanasia with Arthur Jones and Earl Freeman . He worked in the field of jazz from 1967 to 1976 with nine recording sessions. He also worked as a producer for the French label BYG . In this role, he also took on the musicians of the first pan-African cultural festival in Paris, which had taken place in Algiers .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Actuel portrait page
  2. ↑ Discographic information from Angelfire
  3. ↑ Tom Lord Discography
  4. ↑ George E. Lewis: A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music , p. 218
  5. ↑ Eric Drott: Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture , p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Delcloo, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century