Mac Kac
Mac Kac (actually Jean-Baptiste Reilles * 29. May 1920 in Toulouse ; † 17th August 1987 in Sète ) was a French jazz - drummer .
Live and act
Mac Kac, who had Catalan roots and came from a Manouche family, began his career in Toulouse in the mid-1930s. Reilles played in the mid-1940s in the orchestra or quintet of Michel de Villers , on whose recordings for Swing he participated (" How High the Moon "). During this time he also worked with Frank "Big Boy" Goudie and George Johnson , in the early 1950s a. a. with Raymond Le Sénéchal , Guy Lafitte / Peanuts Holland , Bernard Peiffer and His Saint Germain Des Pres Orchestra and in his trio with Jean-Marie Ingrand , also with Stéphane Grappelli , Jean Pierre Sasson and Maxim Saury . In 1955 he was a member of Jay Cameron 's International Sax Band and the Don Rendell / Bobby Jaspar Combo. In the 1950s he worked a. a. also with Buck Clayton , Sacha Distel , Lionel Hampton , Peanuts Holland, Guy Lafitte, Les Blue Stars , Sammy Price , Christian Garros , Michel Attenoux and Henri Salvador ( Salvador Plays the Blues ). In 1957 he recorded the album Mac-Kac & His French Rock & Roll for Atlantic Records . A series of singles and EPs for the Fontana Records label followed between 1960 and 1962 . He also appeared regularly in the Paris Club Saint-Germain , u. a. with Pierre Cullaz and Pierre Simonian . The last recordings were made in 1983 with Jo Privat's orchestra ( Deux guitars et un violon ). In the field of jazz he was involved in 42 recording sessions between 1946 and 2011.
Web links
- Portrait at Midi Libre
- Mac Kac at Allmusic (English)
- Mac Kac at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charles Schaettel: De briques et de jazz: le jazz à Toulouse de 1936 à nos jours . Atlantica, 2001, p. 26
- ↑ With Bobby Jaspar , Barney Wilen , Jean-Louis Chautemps (ts), Jay Cameron (bar), Henri Renaud (p), Benoît Quersin (bass)
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 1, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mac Kac |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Reilles, Jean-Baptiste (real name); MacKac; Mac-Kac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1987 |
| Place of death | Sète |