Shirley Bunnie Foy

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Shirley Bunnie Foy (Cannes 2008)

Shirley Bunnie Foy (born October 13, 1936 in New York City , † November 24, 2016 in Nice ) was an American jazz musician (vocals, also percussion, composition).

Live and act

Bunnie Foy comes from a family of musicians. At 17, she became a member of the Dell Tones , which also included Della Griffin , Gloria Lynne , Paul Griffin , Aaron Tex Cornelius, Sonny Til , Melba Liston and Slide Hampton . After success in New York jazz clubs and the Apollo Theater , the group toured North America in 1955 and 1956.

Bunnie Foy moved to Paris in 1959, where she performed at the La Calvados jazz club ; then she toured with the band of Pierre Franzino (her future husband) through Central Europe and North Africa. In 1960 she took part in the first Jazz Festival Antibes / Juan-les-Pins . In 1965 she appeared in New York with Archie Shepp and then played with Charlie Shavers , Arvell Shaw , Papa Jo Jones and Curtis Porter . Since the late 1960s she has worked in Italy with Franco Cerri , Pino Presti , Stefano Cerri, Enrico Intra , Renato Sellani, Gil Cuppini , Tullio De Piscopo , Tony Scott , Archie Shepp and Sonny Taylor .

Bunnie Foy had lived in Nice since the 1990s , where she performed with Ronnie Rae, Jean-Sébastien Simonoviez, François Chassagnite , Gilbert Rovère , Fabrice Bistoni , Dodo Goya , Laurent Sarrien and Yoann Serra . Sébastien Chaumont presented them at the Nice Jazz Festival in 2012 .

Discographic notes

under his own name
  • May-O (BASF 1974)
  • Shirley Bunnie Foy (60th Anniversary) (MAP Golden Jazz 2013, with Tony Scott, Archie Shepp, Franco Cerri, Pierre Franzino, Lou Bennett and others)
as a contributor
  • George Braith Musart ( Prestige Records 1967)
  • Enrico Intra Messa d'oggi , (Ri-Fi / Golden Jazz 1975)
  • Archie Shepp A Sea of ​​Faces , Black Saint 1975
  • Franco Cerri / Tony Scott Franco, Tony e Pompeo (Mallobia 1976)
  • Franco Cerri Un Suo Modo de Dire (Dire Records 1977)
  • Franco Cerri Noi Duero (Mallobia 1978)
  • Dodo Goya 1956/2006 Anniversary of the Jazz Festival at the Sanremo Casino (Splasc (h) Records 2006)
  • Jean-Sébastien Simonoviez Transition Cosmic Power (Black and Blue 2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ obituary (jazzophone)
  2. ↑ MySpace Monday: Shirley Bunnie Foy
  3. ↑ Shirley Bunnie Foy, una voce da jazz
personal data
SURNAME Foy, Shirley Bunnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Foy, Bunnie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (vocals)
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 2016
Place of death Nice