Roland Hug

Roland Hug (born January 9, 1936 in La Chaux-de-Fonds ; † January 20, 2019 ) was a Swiss jazz musician ( trumpet ).

Live and act

Roland Hug began as a self-taught , inspired by the play of Louis Armstrong , jazz trumpet playing. The first recordings were made in 1954 when he appeared with Raymond Droz and Pierre Favre at the Amateur Festival in Zurich . Hug was a full-time surveying technician and moved from his home region of Neuchâtel to Paris . There he played with Sidney Bechet , with whom he toured for two years, and made recordings with André Réwéliotty . When Bechet died in 1959, Hug joined the group of Claude Luter , another clarinetist and soprano saxophonist who was successful in the course of the Dixieland revival. As a representative of hot jazz, he played in various formations in the following years, including a. with The Dixie Come Backs, The Swiss Dixieland Jazzmen and in the Jacky Milliet Jazz Band . He also worked with Nino Ferrer , Stéphane Guérault, Stéphane Grappelli and Michel Legrand . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 15 recording sessions between 1954 and 1999, most recently at a performance in Neuchâtel with the New Orleans All-Stars ( Live at "FestiJazz" ).

Discographic notes

• Sidney Bechet: En Concert avec Europe 1 (RTE, 1957–58, ed. 1993)
• Jacky Milliet Jazz Band Featuring Carrie Smith (Evasion, around 1980)
• Jacky Milliet Jazz Band Featuring Ralph Sutton (Vogue, 1982)
• Roland Hug New Orleans All Stars Vol. 1 (Maunoir, 1989), with Alex Zahler, Heinz Güntlisberger, Claude Joly, Roland Gall, Mike Thevenoz

Web links

• Roland Hug at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Roland Hug. In: Jazz Hot . Retrieved January 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Le trompettiste chaux-de-fonnier Roland Hug a rejoint les étoiles du New Orleans (obituary). Arc.info, January 31, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 (French). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 5, 2020)