Fred Adison

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Fred Adison , actually Albert Lapeyrère (born September 15, 1908 in Bordeaux , † August 25, 1996 in Nice ) was a French jazz and entertainment musician ( drums , vocals ) and band leader .

Life

Adison learned piano and drums by himself; from 1926 on he was engaged in jazz music and founded his first band with friends , following the example of Ray Ventura's jazz band. In 1931 he came to Paris and from the early 1930s led various jazz bands and orchestras such as Fred Adison and His Collegians , with whom he performed in Paris, played popular hot jazz in addition to dance music and made a number of records. His most successful songs were Avex les pompiers, Quand un gendarme rit and Quand les andouilles voleront , which he recorded for the Ultraphone, Grammophone and His Master's Voice labels , sometimes under pseudonyms such as Jules Bamay. Other popular numbers by the Adison Orchestra were En cueillant les noisettes (1934, from the sound film Le Petit Jacques ), La Da Da Da (1934, from the Revue Vive Paris! ), La musique vient par ici ( The Music Goes Round and Around , with Roger Toussaint (vocals), 1936), Qu'avez-vous fait de mon amant? ( Remember My Forgotten Man (1934), with Germaine Sablon , from the film Chercheuses d'Or / Gold Diggers ), Les prénoms effacés (1937) and standards such as Honeysuckle Rose (1940).

After the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, he toured in September and October 1940 with Django Reinhardt ; with his orchestra he appeared in the music film Kora Terry with Marika Rökk . In Switzerland in 1942 he still recorded some titles such as In the Mood or I Got Rhythm for Elite. In the field of jazz he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1932 and 1942. in August 1943 he performed with Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet in prisoner-of-war camps in Nazi Germany.

In the post-war period he led a big band until the early 1960s , with which he also appeared in the French-occupied zone; he also recorded light music for Pathé ( le swing à l'école , 1946). In his bands u. a. Aimé Barelli , Serge Glykson , Georges Ulmer and Benny Vasseur . In later years he presented his memoir Dans ma vie y'a d'la musique (Paris: Éditions Clancier Guénaud, 1983).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacques Hélian : Les grands orchestres de music-hall en France: souvenirs & témoignages . 1984
  2. ↑ a b c Bernard Lonjon: Edith et ses hommes . 2015
  3. ^ Andy Fry: Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960. 2014, page 100
  4. ↑ Olivier Brard, Daniel Nevers Le jazz en France: jazz and hot dance music discography - Volume 2 . 1989
  5. ↑ Michael Dregni, Alain Antonietto, Anne Legrand: Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz . P. 200
  6. ↑ For a night full of bliss , German version of the song J'voudrais connaître tout ça!
  7. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 22, 2016)
  8. ↑ Hedwig Brüchert, Kerstin Kersandt, Forced Labor in Wiesbaden: The Use of Forced Labor in the Wiesbaden War Economy 1939 to 1945; with a contribution by Kerstin Kersandt . Wiesbaden (Germany). City archive: City of Wiesbaden magistrate, cultural office, city archive, 2003
  9. ↑ Popular culture and Franco-German mediators, edited by Dietmar Hüser, Ulrich Pfeil. 2015, page 120
personal data
SURNAME Adison, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lapeyrère, Albert (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz and entertainment musician (drums, vocals) and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bordeaux
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1996
Place of death Nice