Grégor et ses Grégoriens
Grégor et ses Grégoriens was a French orchestra from the late 1920s and early 1930s.
The orchestra Grégor et ses Grégoriens was directed by Krikor (called Gregor ) Kelekian, a singer and dancer from Armenia . The orchestra performed as a dance orchestra in music halls and between 1929 and 1933 played a number of shellac records for the Æolian, Columbia, Edison and Ultraphone labels , such as Doin 'the Raccoon, Je chante sous la pluie, Makin' Whoopee , Sonny Boy , Sweet Sue, Just You , There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder and Whispering . Musically, the Grégoriens were based on the orchestral, jazz- influenced style of the bands of Paul Whiteman and Jack Hylton .
In 1930 a music film was made under the direction of Roger Lion. In 1930 Kelekian toured South America with his band; in Argentina the Grégoriens recorded four songs in 1931 with the singer Carlos Gardel . In the course of its existence the band included u. a. Pierre Allier, Roger Allier , Léo Arnaud , Philippe Brun , Georges Samuel, Gaston Lapeyronnie , Vladimir Veintroub, André Ekyan , Roger Fisbach , Charles Lisee , Alix Combelle , Guy Paquinet , Michel Warlop and Stéphane Grappelli , the latter also as a pianist.
Web links
- Grégor et ses Grégoriens in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- et ses Grégoriens band portrait at Red Hot Jazz
- Grégor et ses Grégoriens at Discogs (English)
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Information on Grégor et ses Grégoriens in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- ↑ Jeffrey H. Jackson Making Jazz French: Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris . 2003, page 128
- ↑ Grégor et ses Grégoriens at Lobster Films ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Matthew F. Jordan: Le Jazz: Jazz and French Cultural Identity 2010, 144
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
