Gérard Gustin

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Gérard Gustin (1994)

Gérard Maurice Gustin (born February 10, 1930 in Nice ; † May 20, 1994 ) was a French jazz and entertainment musician ( piano , arrangement , composition ) who also worked as an orchestra conductor under the pseudonyms Hubert Clavecin, Esperanza Gustino, Perez Pilar, Bill Wichita and Dick Patton worked.

Live and act

Gustin received his first piano lessons at the age of nine; from 1945 he continued his education at the Nice Conservatory . Under the influence of bebop , he left the conservatory in 1948 to play with various orchestras and formations in southern France.

In 1950 he founded his trio Gérard Gustin with Gilbert Gassin on double bass and Sacha Distel on guitar , which presented an album of the same name. The trio then performed in all the clubs in Paris' Latin Quarter . At the same time, Gustin was part of Aimé Barelli's orchestra , with whom he accompanied singers such as Sammy Davis junior , Frank Sinatra , Nat King Cole and Shirley Temple . Noted by Chet Baker , he joined his quartet in 1955 (recordings 1956), with whom he also toured Europe in 1956. He married the singer Nelly Perrier, with whom he also recorded.

At the end of the 1950s, several LPs were made with his quartet, still with Distel on guitar. He owed his entry into the French variety scene as a composer to Distel, whom he accompanied on his tours and who entrusted him with the musical direction of his weekly television program Le Sacha Show from 1963 to 1971 .

In the following decades Gustin worked in addition to his appearances and recordings with jazz bands ( Onztet , 1991) under one or the other of his pseudonyms with orchestra. He composed more than 450 titles; so he contributed to the discographic work of Distel, for which he wrote Monsieur Cannibale and L'incendie à Rio in 1966 and La bonne humeur in 1968 . The palette of his works ranges from Stephane Grappelli '80 , an album with Stéphane Grappelli , with whom he has worked since 1963, to Tata Yoyo for Annie Cordy and his hit La Bostella (1965) to participation in musicals, television appearances or film scores like And the woman created love (1966) and Le guépiot (1981).

Prizes and awards

  • 1975 - Vincent Scotto Prix
  • 1976 - Rose d'Or d'Antibes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bnf gives 1995 as a different year of death.
  2. a b c d Willy Gorzny International Nekrolog 1994. Directory of deceased people from politics, business, culture, science and society Pullach 1996, p. 49f.
  3. a b Gérard Gustin (1930-1995). data.bnf.fr, accessed on August 6, 2020 .
  4. ^ Raymond Horricks, Tony Middleton Stephane Grappelli, Or the Violin with Wings 1983, p. 108.