Peter Packay

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Peter Packay (actually Pierre Paquay; born August 8, 1904 in Brussels ; † December 26, 1965 ) was a Belgian jazz trumpeter (also trombonist ), composer and arranger .

Packay attended the humanistic high school in St. Gilles and began training as an engineer. In 1924 he began to learn the trumpet by himself and then played in an amateur orchestra, the Variety Ramblers. In 1927 he founded with David Bee formation The Red Beans, with which he toured in Italy, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands. In April 1928 he worked in Berlin as an arranger for John Muzzi , as a composer and arranger for Billy Arnold ; in the summer of 1928 he led the studio band The Red Robins in London . In the 30s he worked in Brussels with the formation Bistrouille ADO (Amateur Dance Orchestra; recordings for Columbia) and in Milan with the Orchestra Jazz Columbia. In 1936 he recorded in Brussels for the first time under his own name (Packay's Swing Academy); This was followed by recording sessions in big band for the record companies Regina ("8 Bars in Search of a Melody" 1936), Studio de disque and the label of the Jazz Club de Belge.

In the early 1940s Packay worked as a musician and arranger in the dance orchestras of Eddie Tower (1940), Jean Omer (1942), Ernst van't Hoff (1943/44), Bobby Naret and Gene Dersin (1944) in Berlin with Willi Stech's orchestra (1942/43). In the field of jazz he was involved in 43 recording sessions between 1928 and 1944. Packay wrote a number of jazz compositions with David Bee, including "Avignon", "Baby Lou", "Charleston Daisy" and "Vladivostok", as well as "Gotta Date in Louisiana" (with Jim McKibum and Glen Powell) recorded by Django Reinhardt . In the post-war period he was mainly active as a composer and arranger.

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  1. ↑ Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie, ed. by Emile Henceval, 1991, p. 221.
  2. ↑ Death Adetum according to Billboard, Volume 78, No. 5, Jan. 29, 1966, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography. (Online, accessed April 15, 2016).
  4. ↑ Patrick Williams: Django Reinhardt. P. 186.
personal data
SURNAME Packay, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paquay, Pierre (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz trumpeter (also trombone), composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1965