Yannick Bruynoghe

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Yannick Bruynoghe (* 1924 in Leuven ; † 1984 there ) was a Belgian jazz musician (drums) who later worked as an author, critic, radio presenter, television journalist and music organizer.

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Bruynoghe discovered jazz at the age of 15 when he and his brother attended a concert by the Duke Ellington Orchestra in Brussels. During the occupation he collected jazz records and sought an exchange with jazz connoisseurs such as Hugues Panassié or Stanley Dance . After the liberation of Belgium he became editor of the magazine Jazz Record Society with Jean Leclère . While studying at the University of Leuven , he directed a jazz ensemble, the University All Stars , of which he was the drummer.

In 1947 Bruynoghe stayed in New York City and learned there a. a. Rex Stewart , Dave Tough , Hot Lips Page and Baron Timme Rosenkrantz , with whom he shared an apartment. After his return he worked u. a. as program designer for the jazz festival in Nice and from 1948 to 1959 was the radio presenter of the INR program Notes blanches, musiciens noirs ; He also wrote articles for La Revue du Jazz and was a member of the editorial board of Swingtime magazine .

Although Bruynoghe in New York experienced the innovations in jazz music in the jazz clubs of 52nd Street with the bebop , he became a protagonist of traditional jazz and the incipient revival and mainstream jazz - also under the influence of Pananssié . In 1953 he organized European tours for Mezz Mezzrow , Buck Clayton and Gene Sedric ; In 1954 he was secretary of the Cinématique de Bruxelles for a short time and for the television station RTB he worked in the editorial department of the Ciné-Club de Minuit program . In 1955 he was the editor of a biography on the blues musician Big Bill Broonzy ( Big Bill Blues - William Broonzy's Story as told to Yannick Bruynoghe ); In 1956 he worked as an artistic advisor for the film of the same name by director Jean Delire ; the film received a silver bear in the short film category at the 1957 Berlinale . In 1956 he organized a concert with Lucky Thompson , Jean Warland , Bodache and Jacques Pelzer .

In early 1959, Bruynoghe hired Lester Young for an appearance on the BRT show Jazz and Jam . In 1957 he also published the magazine Jazz 57 , followed by another trip to the USA, during which he also organized a recording session for Earl Hines in San Francisco . In the following years he made music films for Belgian television about Big Bill Broonzy, Memphis Slim , about Roosevelt Sykes and Jay McShann ( The Honeydripper , with Fred Van Besien), as well as about Buck Clayton , Coleman Hawkins and Louis Armstrong . In addition, he continued to write for various music magazines and moderated the program Exploration du jazz for Radio Namur . From 1964 to 1979 he also ran an art gallery. In later years he taught history of jazz at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuel de la Cambre . In the course of his career he also worked as a photographer of jazz and blues musicians such as Muddy Waters , Howlin 'Wolf and Mezz Mezzrow; his work is archived in the Musée de la Photo in Mont-sur-Marchienne .

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  • Émile Henceval: Dictionnaire du jazz à Bruxelles et en Wallonie . Liège: Pierre Mardaga, 1991.