Raymond Colignon

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Raymond Colignon , also Ray Colignon or Coco Colignon (born February 7, 1907 in Liège ; † February 10, 1987 in Wavre ) was a Belgian jazz and entertainment musician ( piano , organ and arrangement ).

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Colignon, who initially worked as a companion for silent films , then toured Switzerland, France and Algeria. In the early 1930s, Lucien Hirsch et son Orchester made his first recordings for Columbia Records . Between 1931 and 1934 he worked in a night club in his hometown. Between 1935 and 1940 he played with Fud Candrix , for which he also Big Band - Arrangements wrote. As a soloist he recorded under his own name for the record label of the Brussels Jazz Club; In 1939 he recorded titles such as " Honeysuckle Rose " and "Swinging Trough the Style" for Telefunken , accompanied by Camille Marchand (bass) and Armand Dralandts (drums). In the early 1940s he played in Brussels with Jack Lowens and His Swing Quartet, in Berlin with Kurt Widmann and his dance orchestra, and in Adolf Steimel's Organum dance orchestra . In 1941/42 further recordings were made in Brussels under his own name and a. with the trumpeter and singer Billy West (" I Hear a Rhapsody ") and with Tony Jongenelen (aka Tony Young ; "Gute Nacht, Mutter", Rythme 2054) who sings in German . In the post-war period he mainly worked as an organist in the genre of dance and light music and recorded records such as Surprise Party - Calling All Dancers or Come Dance with Me for Philips . In the field of jazz he was involved in 53 recording sessions between 1931 and 1961.

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  1. ↑ Biographical data In: Literature by and about Raymond Colignon in the bibliographic database WorldCat
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 13, 2016)
  3. ^ Albert J. McCarthy: Big band jazz . 1983, p. 323
personal data
SURNAME Colignon, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colignon, Ray; Colignon, Coco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian jazz and entertainment musician (piano, organ and arrangement)
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Liege
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1987
Place of death Wavre