Jo Boyer

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Jo Boyer (left) with producer Pierre-Marcel Ondher and bandleader Serge Elhaïk (1989)

Joseph "Jo" Auguste Eugène Boyer (* 14. September 1922 in Perpignan , † 24 August 2000 ) was a French musician ( trumpet , arrangement , composition ) and orchestra leader in the field of jazz and popular music .

Life

Boyer led his own orchestra during the occupation of France in World War II , which performed in the Paris nightclub Parnasse . In the post-war period he worked a. a. with Django Reinhardt ("Minor Blues", 1947), André Hodeir (1949), Charles Trénet and Jacques Tati . He worked as an arranger for Dizzy Gillespie in 1952 when he was performing with a big band (including Arnold Ross , Jean-Jacques Tilché and Joe Benjamin ) at the Parisian Théâtre des Champs-Élysées . In the 1950s he played with Stéphane Grappelli , Germaine Sablon , Eddie Constantine , Caterina Velente and Joey Negro . In the field of jazz he was involved in 18 recording sessions between 1947 and 1959. In the 1950s Boyer worked again with his own orchestra, with which he accompanied singers such as Henri Salvador ("Tout est tranquille"), Jacqueline François ( chante ses derniers succès ) and André Claveau on recordings.

Boyer wrote songs like "Quand passent les majorettes" (with Jean Eigel), With Eddie Barclay Boyer worked on the soundtrack of the feature film Bob le flambeur (1956, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville ) with; He also appeared with Henri Salvador as a musician in Claude Sautet's The Great Residence (1956).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Joseph Boyer in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on September 1, 2020.
  2. ^ Robert Clary: From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary . Lanham et al. a., Taylor Trade Publ., 2007.
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 8, 2017)
  4. ^ Billboard June 21, 1952
  5. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series . 1968, p. 1942.
personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyer, Joseph Auguste Eugène (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Perpignan
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2000
Place of death Perpignan