Sarane Ferret

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Etienne "Sarane" Ferret (* 1912 in Rouen , † 1970 ) was a French gypsy jazz - and Musette - guitarist . In the 1940s he was the best known of the three Ferret brothers, all of whom appeared in France first as virtuoso banjo or bandurria players and later as guitarists.

Live and act

Sarane Ferret, who came from a guitar-loving Manouche family and was tutored by his uncles, performed early on with them in local dance halls, but also street music with his brothers . Together with his brother Baro, he moved to Paris in 1931. There he soon became known as a banjo player with the Bals Musette , first with the Italian accordionist Vétese Guérino. He also accompanied Eastern European Roma in Russian cabarets. In 1931 he met Django Reinhardt , which changed his style. At first he continued to play musette music with accordionists such as Gus Viseur , Charley Bazin, Louis Richardet and Tony Muréna. In 1939 he replaced Django Reinhardt at the Kilburn Theater in London ; he was also the only guitarist who dared to play solo in the presence of Reinhardt. In the film La Romance de Paris by Jean Boyer , he accompanied in 1941 Charles Trenet .

In his own recordings from 1941 onwards he oriented himself on the game of the Quintette du Hot Club de France . After a short time in a line-up with two clarinets, he switched to the Hot Club line-up with violin, three guitars (including his cousin Challain Ferret ) and double bass, which he and his Swing Quintette de Paris kept alive during the early war years in France presented on some recordings (with violinists Robert Bermoser and Georges Effrose ). In 1943 he performed with the harmonica player Dany Kane; Recordings from 1944 were not released until 2003. After the end of the German occupation he found regular work again, but did not take up again until 1947 (with violinist Roger Godet), remaining committed to Reinhardt's style. He also presented the Hot Club line-up in the 1950s (and continued to record with it, with violinist Gilles Bruno), but also played under his own name with Roger Guérin and Maurice Vander and in 1957 experimented with line-up with vibraphonist Roby Poitevin and a conventional rhythm section . He was also involved in his brother Baro's Waltz Musette experiments ( Panique / La Folle , 1946) and recordings by his brother Matelo Ferret (1960). After his death, his family presented a Nuits de Gitans at the Paris Olympia , on which Stéphane Grappelli and Babik Reinhardt also performed alongside his brothers Baro and Matelo and his cousin Challain Ferret .

Discographic notes

  • Sarane Ferret et le Quintette de Paris (1941–1956)
  • Les Fréres Ferret: Les Gitanes de Paris 1938–1956 ( Frémeaux et Associés )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See The Guitar in Gypsy Jazz
  2. ↑ Sarane's brothers were Pierre “Baro” (1908–1978) and Jean “Materlo” (1918–1989).
  3. ↑ Michael Dregni Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008; P. 150
  4. ↑ Michael Dregni Gypsy Jazz , p. 162
  5. ↑ Effrose, who belonged to the orchestra of the Paris Opera and was an excellent replacement for Grappelli, was deported by the Nazis to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1944 because of his Jewish origins , where his traces are lost. See Michael Dregni: Gypsy Jazz , p. 163
  6. ↑ Liner Notes from Les Fréres Ferret Les Gitanes de Paris 1938-1956
  7. ↑ Michael Dregni Gypsy Jazz , p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Ferret, Sarane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ferret, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen
DATE OF DEATH 1970