Ray Ventura

piano, conductor · 1908–1979 · Paris

Pianist and then leader of the Collegians, renamed Collégiens in 1931, he recorded for Columbia from 1928 before establishing a French repertoire written notably by Paul Misraki. His orchestra, a required stop for musicians such as Alix Combelle and Philippe Brun, was a success on record and in film, and Ventura then led a big band in South America in the early 1940s.

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Styles

• Jazz in France (interwar years)

Landmark tracks

• Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise (1935)

Sources

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