Jeff De Boeck

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Jeff De Boeck (actually Joseph Elie De Boeck , * 2 September 1918 in Molenbeek ) was a Belgian jazz - drummer and bandleader , who is considered one of the best Belgian drummer of Swing years and operated as a pop composer in later years.

Live and act

At the age of seven, De Boeck played the drum in a children's orchestra and received music lessons. At the age of 16 he belonged to the amateur band Hot & Swing , from 1937 in Brussels to Robert De Kers (“Gotta Date 'n Louisiana”, Decca), in 1940 he switched to the orchestra of Fud Candrix , with whom he started in 1942 in the German Empire worked and recorded numbers like "Small gifts keep friendship". There he also played with Willi Stech and accompanied the singer Jenny Even with his own studio band ("Why only, why" ( Berking ), Odeon O-26534). Under his own name ( Jeff De Boeck and His Metro Band, with Janot Morales (trumpet), Bobby Naret (alto saxophone, clarinet), Victor Ingeveldt (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Ivon De Bie (piano), Andre Mersch (guitar) and Gene Kempf (bass)) he recorded for Metrophone (1941) und Olympia (1942) in Brussels on a number of records, u. a. " Only Forever " and the "Bugle Call Rag". He has also worked on recordings by Gus Deloof , Jean Robert , Charles Trenet / Léo Chauliac and Ernst van't Hoff .

After the end of the war he was a member of the International's Dance Orchestra , which initially worked in Brussels and for the American troop support, and in 1949 also toured the Netherlands for a long time. In 1950 he played in an all-star cast around Robert De Kers, in the early 50s in the Ronnex Orchestra of Charlie Knegtel, with the Seven Pipers (around Jaap Streefkerk) and Jean Douchamps . In 1954 he recorded the pop single "Till We Two Are One / Heart of My Heart" for Decca as Jeff De Boeck and His "Rick and Tickers" . From 1955 he performed with his quartet in the Bataclan in Brussels for several years .

In the field of jazz, he was involved in 76 recording sessions from 1938 to 1958. As Whistling Jeff he played with organist David Mackersie ; Under the pseudonym Marc Stelvio he wrote and arranged hits and pop songs for Belgian singers such as Salvatore Adamo , Jacky Demone and Danyel Dirk in later years .

From 1959 he gave up music when he became artistic director of La voix de son maitre . He also founded the Ardmore Beechwood label (now part of Capitol ) before retiring in 1981.

The musician should not be confused with the painter Jef De Boeck (1887–1967).

literature

  • Emile Henceval (Ed.): Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie , 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grove Music Online
  2. ↑ a b c d Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie , ed. by Emile Henceval. 1991, p. 115
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME De Boeck, Jeff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Boeck, Joseph Elie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Molenbeek-Saint-Jean / Sint-Jans-Molenbeek
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century