Grégor et ses Grégoriens

conductor, vocals, dance · 1898–1971

Krikor Kélékian, known as Grégor, a dancer and singer of Armenian origin, founded the Grégoriens orchestra in Paris in 1928, which featured Philippe Brun, Alix Combelle, Stéphane Grappelli and Michel Warlop. In 1929-1930 he created the Revue du jazz, presented as the first publication devoted to jazz in France, and toured South America in 1930.

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Styles

• Jazz in France (interwar years)

Landmark tracks

• Doin' the Racoon (1929)

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