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Victor Stefan "Vic" Vogel (born August 3, 1935 in Montréal ; † September 16, 2019 there ) was a Canadian jazz musician ( piano , also tuba , trombone ), arranger , composer and band leader .

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Vogel, who comes from a family of Hungarian immigrants, was taught piano playing as a child, and music theory and analysis was also taught by Michel Hirvy in 1954/55 . He also learned autodidactically the trombone , tuba , vibraphone and arrangement . He began his career in the late 1950s in the show and big bands of Hugh Sealey, George Sealey, Boogie (Paul) Gaudet and Steve Garrick, before putting together his first formation at Club Chez Parée in 1960 . He toured Quebec as a pianist with the vocal ensemble Les Double Six and played in the Lee Gagnon Tentet in the early 1960s . In 1966 he led a group of Montreal jazz musicians and toured Europe with them.

In the following years he worked for the television station CBC as the musical director of various TV shows; In the radio program of the CBC he appeared with his own groups in the programs Jazz en liberté, Jazz Canadiana, Jazz sur le vif and Jazz Beat . In 1968 the Vic Vogel Big Band emerged, stylistically based on the Duke Ellington Orchestra . Until 1978 she performed regularly at Club El Casino . In 1979 the album Offenbach en fusion was created , which won the Félix Award as rock album of the year . In 1982 Vogel toured France with his band; In 1985 the big band made a guest appearance at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival . Occasionally she also appeared with American guest soloists such as Zoot Sims and Phil Woods (1984), Mel Tormé (1985) and Dizzy Gillespie (1986). The musicians in his bands included u. a. Brian Barley and Andrew Homzy .

In addition to working with his big band, Vogel also worked as an arranger and occasionally as an orchestra conductor, for example at the 1976 Olympic Games and the 1985 Canada Games . He also worked for various musical theaters such as the Théâtre des Variétés as well as film and television music. He often appeared with his big band at the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal . In the field of jazz he was involved in 76 recording sessions between 1972 and 2006. He was unable to take part in a farewell concert in 2015 due to illness.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c report (2015) in Ici Radio Canada
  2. ↑ Obituary (Voir)
  3. ^ Portrait in the Canadian Encyclopedia
  4. ↑ Portrait at the Montreal Jazz Festival ( Memento from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 30, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Vogel, Vic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogel, Victor Stefan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz musician (piano, arrangement and direction)
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2019
Place of death Montréal