Irakli de Davrichewy

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Irakli de Davrichewy (born February 1, 1940 in Paris ) is a French jazz trumpeter and bandleader of traditional jazz .

Live and act

De Davrichwy, who is usually just called Irakli , is a grandson of the Georgian-French Stalin contemporary, revolutionary and spy Joseph Davrichachvili (1882–1975). The Parisian writer Kéthévane Davrichewy is his niece. As a child he first learned the violin and piano; as a trumpeter he is self-taught . As a teenager he founded his first band with his brother Sandrik (guitar, piano), which was based on the music of the Louis Armstrong All Stars, and in 1965 he recorded his first EPs for Disques Vogue with his formation Irakli's New Orleans Ambassadors ; one of his early bands a. Alain Marquet . Musically, he devoted himself to the maintenance of New Orleans jazz , in particular the music of Louis Armstrong.

In the following decades he continued his work with his own formations such as The Swing Orchestra, Frech All-Stars and Jazz Four and put on a number of albums. He also played with Barney Bigard , Cozy Cole , Arvell Shaw , Claude Hopkins , Wallace Davenport , Christian Mourin and Mustaches Les Petits Français . In 1998 he and his band performed together with the Barrelhouse Jazzband at the Frankfurt Alte Oper . In the field of jazz he was involved in 26 recording sessions between 1965 and 2006. He was also active as a Louis Armstrong researcher and record collector; he was also chairman of the Louis Armstrong Association .

Discographic notes

  • Irakli Quartet: Abide With Me (Futura, 1971), with Marc Richard, Göran Eriksson, Bert Jouis
  • Georges Brassens , Mustache avec Les Petits Français: Joe Newman Eddie Davis , Harry Edison , Cat Anderson , Dorothy Donegan : Jouent Brassens en Jazz (Philips, 1979)
  • A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (1994), with Mike Goetz , Thomas "Spats" Langham
  • Irakli and The Louis Ambassadors: I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (2002), with Jean-Claude Onesta, Didier Desbois, Christian Rameil, Philippe Pietan, Sylvain Glevarec

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Sebag Montefiore: Young Stalin . 2010.
  2. ^ Concert de la chanteuse franco-géorgienne Nathéla Davrichachvili (Tbilisi). Colisse.org, March 23, 2012, archived from the original on July 26, 2018 ; Retrieved July 26, 2018 (French).
  3. ^ International Who's who in Music: Popular music. Vol. Two, Volume 1. Melrose Press, 1996
  4. ↑ Eurojazzland: Jazz and European Sources, Dynamics, and Contexts, edited by Luca Cerchiari, Laurent Cugny , Franz Kerschbaumer , 2012, p. 269.
  5. ↑ Event information
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 21, 2016)
  7. ↑ Jos willems: All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong . 2006, p. XX
  8. ^ Storyville, Issues 111-122, Storyville Publications, 1984
  9. ↑ IAJRC Journal, Volume 29 Cover International Association of Jazz Record Collectors International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Davrichewy, Irakli de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz trumpeter and band leader of traditional jazz
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris