Jacques Morgantini

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Jacques Morgantini (* 21st February 1924 in Montbeliard , † 2. December 2019 ) was a French manager , promoter and music historian in the field of blues and early jazz .

Jacques Morgantini was Vice-President of the Hot Club de France for 22 years (at the side of Hugues Panassié ) ; In 1945 he founded the Hot Club de Pau . In various studios in France and Switzerland he was production manager for the Black & Blue label. This resulted in recordings by blues and jazz musicians such as Arnett Cobb , Jimmy Dawkins , Tiny Grimes , Luther Johnson , Jay McShann , Jimmy Rogers , Otis Rush and Koko Taylor . He also worked for the Isabel Records, RCA Victor , Frémeaux et Associés and EPM Musique labels . Morgantini took the opportunity to organize his own tours and recruited several Chicago artists. He recorded some of the artists as leaders and sidemen, both live and in the studio, such as Roy Gaines , Lionel Hampton , Pinetop Perkins , Johnny Shines and Hubert Sumlin . His last production was the 2013 compilation The Chicago Blues Box: The MCM Records Story .

At his house he held a number of private concerts with musicians such as Count Basie , Magic Slim , Freddie Below and Jimmy Dawkins . He also wrote liner notes for a number of compilations a. a. the music of Louis Armstrong , Johnny Dodds , Duke Ellington , Hot Lips Page , Chick Webb and Cootie Williams . In 2016, the documentary Memoirs de Blues , published by the Jazz Hot Club in Pau, was released, which compiles the rich material that Jacques Morgantini and his wife Marcelle (who died in 2007) collected in their home in Pau for years.

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  1. ↑ https://www.memoiredeblues.org/jacques-morgantini/biographiebiography-jacques-marcelle-morgantini/
  2. ↑ See Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story by Wayne Everett Goins, (2014), p. 188
  3. ↑ Jazz Journal, Volume 30. Novello & Company, 1977
  4. ↑ Todo blues: Lo esencial de la música blues desde sus orígenes a la actualidad by Manuel López Poy (2019)
personal data
SURNAME Morgantini, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French unit manager, promoter and music historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbeliard
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 2019