Sigismond Beck

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Sigismond Beck (* 1900 ; † unknown) was a French swing jazz musician ( double bass , tuba , composition ) who will be remembered for his collaboration with Django Reinhardt .

Career

Around 1930 Beck was a member of the Melodic-Jazz du Casino de Paris orchestra , with which the singer Josephine Baker accompanied ("J'ai deux amours"). In 1933 he played bass and tuba with Gene Kardos in New York City , where he was involved in three recording sessions.

Around the mid-1930s he also worked as an orchestra conductor ( Orchester Sigismund Beck ); his orchestra, sponsored by the Hot Club de France , performed on February 4, 1934 in the Salle Lafayette in Paris , playing a number of popular jazz numbers such as " Dinah ", " I Can't Give You Anything but Love ", " I Got Rhythm ", " China Town ”,“ I've Found a New Baby ”,“ Nobody's Sweetheart ”,“ Tiger Rag ”and“ Sweet Georgia Brown ”. In the band led by Beck, Frank “Big Boy” Goudie (trumpet), Freddy Johnson (piano), Django Reinhardt (who was presented as Jungo Rheinart by the music magazine Jazz-Tango-Dancing ), Beck on double bass and Billy played that evening Taylor (drums).

In Paris, in the vicinity of the Hot Club de France, recordings were made with Beck as bassist in August 1935, when he recorded the tracks “I've Found a New Baby” and “ With Frank“ Big Boy ”Goudie as band leader and with Django Reinhardt and Jerry Mengo. St. Louis Blues ”; either with Stéphane Grappelli or with Joseph Reinhardt . In 1938 he accompanied the young chanson singer Jacotte Perrier with Grappelli and Reinhardt .

In the early 1940s Beck played in the trio of Charlie Lewis (alias Charles Louis ), in whose trio with André Jourdan he recorded the three tracks "Vous faites partie de moi" ( Cole Porter ), "C '" for Pathé (PA 2020) est un nid charmant ”and“ Mieux qu'un mot d'amour ”, also with Charlie Lewis and André Jourdan in the quartet of the accordionist Émile Carrara (“ Le charmeur de serpents ”) and with Jean Yatove et son Grand Orchester de Radio- Paris ("Swing Obsession"). Beck wrote the compositions "Néni Linda" in the 1940s, with Gaston Rolland "Complainte", "Éternel refrain" and "My Heart Forgives You".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, Volume 7, 1949
  2. ↑ Information on Sigismond Beck in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  3. ↑ Josephine Baker at Redhotjazz
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 1, 2017)
  5. ↑ Michael Degni: Django: The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend , p 120; see. also in: Black British Jazz: Routes, Ownership and Performance , ed. by Jason Toynbee, Catherine Tackley & Mark Doffmann, London & New York City, Routledge, 2016, p. 228.
  6. ^ Paul Vernon: Jean 'Django' Reinhardt: A Contextual Bio-Discography 1910-1953 , p. 18
  7. ^ Paul Balmer: Stephane Grappelli: A Life in Jazz
  8. ↑ Alexander Schmitz, Peter Maier: Django Reinhardt. His life His music His records. Oreos Verlag (Collection Jazz), Gauting-Buchendorf 1985, p. 125.
  9. ↑ The Tenorsax of Frank Goudie Big Boy (disco biography Jan Evensmo, 2017)
  10. ↑ Django Reinhardt 1983
  11. ^ Charles Louis, Sigismond Beck, André Jourdan - Piano Swing at Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Sigismond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1900
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century