Monique Aldebert

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Monique Aldebert (* 5. May 1931 in Monaco as Monique Dozo , † January 2018 ) was a French living in the United States jazz singer and songwriter .

Live and act

Dozo studied music in Monte Carlo and Paris . She made her debut as a jazz singer in 1947 with Bernard Peiffer . After that she sang a lot in French jazz clubs a. a. with Don Byas , Django Reinhardt , Roger Guérin (with whom she was initially married) and Bobby Jaspar . Finally, in 1959, she became a member of the Les Double Six vocal formation with Mimi Perrin and accompanying musicians such as u. a. Eddy Louiss , René Urtreger , Pierre Michelot , Kenny Clarke or Daniel Humair . She recorded with the Double Six in 1959 and 1964. In the group she also met her future husband, the pianist and singer Louis Aldebert . The Double Six sang titles such as "Boplicity," a track that Gil Evans composed with Miles Davis under the pseudonym Cleo Henry; the transcribed Miles Davis solo was sung by Monique Aldebert in 1959.

When the Double Six broke up in 1965, Monique and Louis appeared as The Aldeberts . In 1966 they performed with Bill Coleman . In 1967, the Aldeberts moved to the United States and entered the United States. a. in shows in Las Vegas , in 1969 they settled in west Los Angeles , where Monique Aldebert then lived and taught French singing. The Aldeberts also worked as composers, arrangers and songwriters with a lot of studio work in the Los Angeles area. In 1979 they both worked for Joe Sample's fusion formation The Crusaders on his album Street Life as arranger and background singer. They also appeared sporadically in clubs. She and her husband went on a tour of Japan in 1991.

Aldebert sang in 1970 on Lalo Schifrin's album Kelly's Heros ("Si tu me dis") and in the accompanying film music (German film title Shock Trupp Gold ). She recorded her own album at Philips with arrangements by Michel Legrand and took part in André Hodeir's first recording of Anna Livia Plurabelle (1966). She sang along in the English version of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . In 2005 she published her autobiography , De la musique avant toute chose, et d'autres choses.

Discographic notes

Fonts

  • De la musique avant toute chose, et d'autres choses. Aubais: Mémoire d'Oc Éditions 2005, ISBN 2-913898-14-9 .

literature

  • Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : Encyclopedia of Jazz in the 70s , Horizon Press 1976, article Monique Aldebert.
  • Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
  • Scott Yanow: The Jazz Singers. The Ultimate Guide. Backbeat, San Francisco 2008, ISBN 978-0-87930-825-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ by Barry core (ed.) The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , record Louis Aldebert, she was later than Monique Aldebert-Guérin known
  2. ↑ Monique Aldebert, des Double Six, est décédée ... (No longer available online.) TSF Jazz, January 29, 2018, archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on January 29, 2018 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsfjazz.com
  3. ↑ Louis Aldebert at Allmusic (English)
  4. ↑ The Aldeberts
  5. ↑ IMDB for the film's soundtrack
personal data
SURNAME Aldebert, Monique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dozo, Monique (maiden name); Guérin, Monique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Monaco
DATE OF DEATH January 2018