Herman Sandy
Herman Sandy (actually Herman Sanders ; born November 15, 1921 in Brussels ; † May 13, 2020 ) was a Belgian jazz trumpeter .
Live and act
Sandy had lessons at St. Gilles Music Academy and played with Henri Van Bemst , Charlie Calmayn and Ernst van't Hoff in the early 1940s . In 1944 he founded the Jumping Jivers formation ; After the war he toured West Germany and played in clubs of the US Army and in Czechoslovakia (before the occupation by the Red Army ) with Jimmy McPartland . Influenced by Kenny Dorham , he dealt with trends in modern jazz ; Sandy and his quartet (with Jean Warland , Freddy Rottier and Jean Fanis ) presented the album Innovation Jazz 3 under his own name , which was released on the Innovation en Jazz label. In the same year the album Jazz for Moderns followed (with Jacques Pelzer , Jean Fanis, Jean Warland and Jo Demuynck ).
In the post-war years he worked in Belgium in the great orchestras of Bobby Naret , Fud Candrix , Rudy Bruker , Bill Alexandre and with Ivon De Bie in the Knokke Casino; He has also worked on recordings by Jack Sels , Léon Demeuldre , Sidney Bechet , Léo Souris , David Bee and Jacques Pelzer. In 1948 he accompanied the saxophonist Lucky Thompson with Pelzer, Bobby Jaspar , Fats Sadi and Toots Thielemans at the jazz festival in Nice . In 1957 he opened Concert by Miles Davis . In the early 1960s he played in the Grand Orchester of Henri Segers , in the Dixieland band of David Bee, in the big band of RTB and from the end of the decade in the big band of Fats Sadi ( Tea for Two ). Then he was a member of the Francis Bay television big band ( The Swingers Back Again ) for 17 years and also performed with the Belgian Big Band; he also directed the formations Herman Sandy's Sandmen and Herman Sandy and His Brussels Jazz Gang . In the 1990s and the following decade he played with Paul Dubois and with Jazzfun ( Alex Scorier , Roger Asselberghs , Robert Pernet ).
In the field of jazz he was involved in 56 recording sessions between 1943 and 1981.
Web links
- Entry at jazzinbelgium.com
- Herman Sandy at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series - 1962, page 1186
- ↑ Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie , ed. by Emile Henceval, 1991, p. 261
- ↑ Obituary. Les Lundis d'Hortense, May 18, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 19, 2016)
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SURNAME | Sandy, Herman |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sanders, Herman (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian jazz trumpeter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1921 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels |
DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 2020 |