Faustin Jeanjean

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Faustin Paul Irénée Jean Jean (* 5. December 1900 in Pouzols-Minervois , Aude , † 19th April 1979 in Pouzols-Minervois) was a French musician ( trumpet , even cornet ) and orchestra leader in the field of swing and popular music , which also worked as a composer of film music and classical music .

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Jeanjean came from a family of musicians; his father Paul (1874–1928) and his brother Maurice (1897–1968) were musicians and composers. He attended the conservatory, where he received first prize in the cornet category in 1920 . In the early 1920s he played jazz music at Club Daunou , soon afterwards in a formation that included Léo Vauchant , Roger Fisbach and Henri Colo-Bonnet and performed at the Cabaret Chateau et Caveau Caucasiens . In 1925, trombonist Guy Paquinet joined the band, and from then on they called themselves Mélody Six . In 1925 Jeanjean also played in the Club Chateau de Madrid in the Orchester Sazy.

Jeanjean played around 1926/27 in Luna Park with Paul Gason et son Versatile Orchestra before he became a member of Lud Gluskin's orchestra , on whose recordings for Pathé and Perfect , and in 1929/30 in Berlin for Homokord he participated. After returning to Paris in the early 1930s, he worked a. a. in Léon Kartun's orchestra , in which musicians such as Stéphane Grappelli , Gaston Lapeyronnie and Michel Warlop also played in 1934 . In the same year he was also a member of the Le Jazz du Poste Parisien orchestra , in which, in addition to Grappelli and Warlop, Django Reinhardt , Alex Renard , Guy Paquinet, Roger Fisbach, Serge Glykson , Alix Combelle and Roger Grasset played; In 1938 he was still working for Jacques Hélian . In the field of jazz he was involved in 59 recording sessions between 1926 and 1938.

In the following years Jeanjean shifted his musical activities to composing for feature films; he wrote music for films by Jean Kemm / Jean-Louis Bouquet ( La loupiote 1937, La pocharde 1937), Léopold Simons ( Le fraudeur , 1937), Walter Kapps ( Mahlia la métisse , 1943) and Julien Duvivier ( The Maurizius case , 1954); also for the documentary La Symphonie française du travail (1937) by René Clément . He also composed (partly with Maurice Jeanjean) a. a. Songs (“The Melody of My Heart”), chamber music (“Guisganderie” for clarinet and piano), works for orchestra (“Balançoirs”), for strings such as “Danse de violons” and “Fiddlin 'for Fun (Les violons s' amusent) ”, wind ensembles and flute quartet (“ Ski-Symphonie pour quatre flûtes ”). The best known is probably the "Quatuor pour saxophones" by the Jeanjean brothers; the composition written for the military band Quatour de la garde Republicaine (completed by Faustin Jeanjean in 1949) has established a permanent place in the repertoire of saxophone quartets. Under the common pseudonym Marvin Hatley , he wrote music with Georges Tzipine for the comedy film Laurel and Hardy: In Oxford (1940).

Around 1946/47 he and his orchestra accompanied singers such as Patrice & Mario (“Une Hirondelle” / “Luna Lunera”, Odeon 282.279), Armand Mestral (“Jalousie”), Roberte Marna (“Non! Mon amour”, 1946; Pathé 2387) and Bourvil ("Quand même";). In the 1940s and 1950s he also presented (partly as Jean Faustin ) a series of records with easy listening and dance music with his own studio orchestra ( Faustin Jeanjean et Son Grand Orchester de Danse ), for which he also composed . With Maurice André he recorded two EPs for Odeon in the mid-1950s , a. a. with versions of Rimsky-Korsakov's “ Bumblebee Flight ” , the Gershwin titles “ An American in Paris ” and “ Summertime ” as well as the jazz standards “ Caravan ” and “ Autumn Leaves ”.

Web links

Scores (selection)

  • Quatuor pour saxophones: pour 4 saxophones . (SATB) partition et parties. Editions Salabert, Paris, ISMN M-048-00342-2.
  • Ski symphony: pour 4 flûtes partition et 4 parties . Gérard Billaudot, Paris, ISBN 979-0-043-04756-8 , ISMN M-043-04756-8.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Faustin Jeanjean in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. ^ The Jeanjeans and the Clarinet
  3. ↑ Brief portrait at Notre cinema
  4. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 7, 2017)
  5. ↑ with his brother Maurice under the common pseudonym FM Jeanjean.
  6. ↑ La Symphonie française du travail in the Cinema encyclopedie
  7. ^ Maurice Jeanjean at Worldcat
  8. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series , 1959, 1771
  9. ↑ a b Maurice Jeanjean at Allmusic (English)
  10. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1954, p. 298
  11. ↑ Program Notes
  12. ↑ Jacques Lorcey: Bourvil , PAC, 1981
  13. ↑ Jean Faustin et son Orchester at Discogs (English)
  14. ↑ Le Grand Orchester de Jean Faustin at Discogs (English)
personal data
SURNAME Jeanjean, Faustin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeanjean, Faustin Paul Irénée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Pouzols-Minervois
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1979
Place of death Pouzols-Minervois